Looking for a fun, hands-on experience with clay? Ideal for your group of friends, family, team, homeschoolers, birthday party, wedding party, divorce party, or just a night out. Our pottery playshops are the perfect way to get creative and connect with yourself and others.

✨ Your Private Pottery Party Includes:

• Demonstration and assistance with Teresa Speakman
• All materials and finishing are provided
• No experience needed
• Daytime, evenings & weekends available

We are in the DORA district- Hadouken Barcade is just across the street…BYOB.

For descriptions and examples of hand-building pottery methods in our Pottery Playshops click here.

Pottery Playshops

Download Hand-building Pottery Tips by Teresa Speakman

2-hour Pottery Playshop
1-4 people $75 per person

2-hour Pottery Playshop
5-16 people. $70 per person

30-minute Mini Pottery Playshop
$25 per person

The price includes all materials, instruction, and assistance in hand-building methods. We’ll finish your piece and have it ready for pick up in 3-4 weeks.

Certain methods require more space. Our slab-building method is limited to 8 people, and up to 16 people with the pinch pot method. See method descriptions here.

We can bring a Pottery Playshop to your location! Would you like a private party at your home, business, taproom, or winery?

Pottery Playshop at Double Edge Brewing Co. in Lancaster, Ohio pictured.

Mindful Living

Mindful Living with and without Art sessions include mindfulness practices combined with making pottery, which helps you to slow down, be present, relieve stress, and increase joy.

Compassionate Communication

Private Playshops in Compassionate Communication are available for 12-16 at Mud Gallery, or we can come to your location for a larger group. Free Consultation.

Empathy Cafe

The Empathy Cafe offers an experiential learning opportunity focusing on one of the main components of Compassionate Communication and emotional intelligence. “Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart.” ~Thich Nhat Hanh

Empathy is one of the most valuable gifts we possess as humans, the ability to listen deeply to others and to be deeply heard and understood without judgment. “Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing. Instead of offering empathy, we have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feelings. Empathy, however, calls upon us to empty our mind and listen to others with our whole being.” ~Marshall B. Rosenberg, founder of the Center for Nonviolent Communication.

Self-Empathy Dance

The Self-Empathy Dance offers an experiential learning opportunity focusing on one of the main components of Compassionate Communication and emotional intelligence. The playshop will consist of large and small group exploration of self-empathy and practices.
It is beneficial if you have attended an Empathy Cafe but not a requirement.

Why a dance? Our emotions, thoughts, and needs are never static, they move! Communication, whether with others or with ourselves is like a dance, ideas form within, and movements are expressed outwardly.

Empathy is one of the most valuable gifts we possess as humans, the ability to listen deeply to others and to be deeply heard and understood without judgment. But, don’t forget about yourself! We can empathize with ourselves, often transforming painful experiences into meaningful self-connection and understanding.

Speaking Peace: Introduction to Compassionate Communication

An introduction to the principles of Compassionate Communication with large and small group practice. Rather than focusing on what is right or wrong in our relationships (or in the world), we can connect to what we want, to what really matters, improving our relationship with self and others.

This playshop focuses on meaningful relationships, whether personal, family, or professional, and the ability to:

• Listen More Effectively—Learn how to listen so your partner, colleague, or family member is confident they have been heard. Learn how to translate another’s language, regardless of words used, into feelings and needs in order to transform emotionally charged situations into powerful connections.
  
• Stay Connected to Your Values—Deepen your personal connections by entering all interactions from a place of compassion.
  
• Find Greater Intimacy—Strengthen your connection to your partner, siblings, family, and friends by more clearly understanding their values, hopes, and needs.
  
• Make Clear, “Doable” Requests that are actually “doable”, easy to understand, and can be done willingly. Learn alternatives to coercive behaviors like demands, threats of punishment, or promises of reward that often motivate people to fulfill their requests from a sense of fear, guilt, or shame.