1:1 Sessions
Gentle, personal explorations of shame, social anxiety and your inner parts, using play, embodiment and honest conversation.
Experiential learning & human connection
When you feel safe,
you remember how to play.
I create warm, honest, playful spaces where you can meet the parts of you that have been hiding, gently loosen the grip of shame, and find the aliveness that was waiting underneath.
curious
tender
silly
seen
brave
Hi. You're welcome here, exactly as you are.
go on, boop the nose
the heart of it
When the nervous system doesn't feel safe, play becomes inaccessible.
When safety is present, inside us and around us, our natural capacity for play, expression and aliveness simply unfolds. Nothing to force or perform. Just enough room to bloom.
online & offline 🔴 part-time clown
hello, I'm Mrinal
This work began with my own social anxiety. I'm still meeting it, and it keeps teaching me.
I'm an Experiential Learning & Human Connection Facilitator, working where spontaneous expression, play, emotional intelligence and inner transformation meet.
I trained as a designer at the National Institute of Design, and I bring design thinking together with psychology and theatre to build spaces where deep, safe inner exploration can happen. I've facilitated intensive and short-format workshops with hundreds of people, both in person and online.
With playfulness, honesty and care, I help people meet hidden hurts, understand their inner parts, and move toward more freedom, safe connection and flow. Much of my work is with shame: how we can learn to accept ourselves and build a supportive, loving inner system for ourselves and for each other.
What my work draws from (tap one)
Each of these is a doorway. Together they make a room where it's safe to be a little more yourself.
how I can help
You might be here if…
Tap whatever feels true. Nobody's watching, and there are no wrong answers.
…
ways we can work together
Spaces for individuals, groups & teams
Offline and online. Intensive journeys or short, sweet sessions. Everything starts with making it safe enough.
Workshops
Intensive and short-format group journeys: improv for inner freedom, meeting your inner clown, and the nine flavours of feeling through the Navarasa.
Corporate Trainings
Psychological safety, emotional intelligence and real connection for teams. Playful, practical and backed by psychology.
Circles & Collaborations
Custom programs for schools, colleges, communities, retreats and festivals, designed with you around what your people need.
for teams & organisations
Teams play better when they feel safe, and they work better when they play.
Trainings that go deeper than icebreakers without losing the joy.
- 01 Psychological safety at work
- 02 Emotional intelligence for leaders
- 03 Deep listening & authentic communication
- 04 Creative confidence through improv
- 05 Meeting shame, feedback & failure with kindness
- 06 Team connection through play
the playground
Four tiny games to play with me
No scores and no winning. Just a small taste of how a session feels.
What's the weather inside you right now?
Every kind of weather is welcome. Pick the one that feels closest.
I'm listening…
nine flavours of feeling
Spin the Navarasa wheel
The Natyashastra names nine rasas, the essential flavours of human emotion. Spin, and I'll give you a tiny improv challenge. (Yes, out loud. Nobody's listening. Probably.)
Your inner critic is a part of you trying to keep you safe.
Tap a card to hear what a kinder inner voice might say instead.
Let's make up a story together
The first rule of improv: accept what's offered, then add to it. You write a line, I'll say "Yes, and…"
what a session feels like
Slow at first. Then surprisingly alive.
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1
Arrive
We settle in, check in, and agree on what makes this space safe. You always get to say no.
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2
Warm up
Gentle play, movement and a little silliness to wake the body up and quiet the judge.
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3
Explore
Improv, Meisner, clown and rasa work help us meet hidden hurts and the inner parts behind them.
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Integrate
We reflect with care and find small, real ways to carry the freedom back into your life.
Playfulness
Lightness isn't avoidance. It's a doorway into depth.
Honesty
Real feelings, spoken plainly, held gently.
Care
Your nervous system sets the pace. Always.
words from the circle
What people carry home
"Placeholder: a participant's words about feeling safe enough to be silly for the first time in years."
"Placeholder: a team lead describing how the training changed the way their team listens to each other."
"Placeholder: someone sharing how they met their shame with kindness instead of hiding from it."
whenever you're ready
No pressure. No performance.
Just a conversation.
Book a time that suits you, or send a note. Whatever you share will be met with care.