Tonic

Online Bites session
2025-12-17 10:00 - 11:30, 2025-10-20 12:30 - 14:00, 2025-07-17 16:00 - 17:30 UTC | Online Session
A hit of inspiration, fresh thinking or provocation. We’ll bring a different topic to each session, then give you the chance to digest with others from the Changemakers community.

Online Project 2 - Inclusive Recruitment [Part 4]
2025-12-10 10:00 - 13:30 | Online Session
From September to December, we’ll be taking a deep dive into inclusive recruitment. Over the course of four half day sessions, we’ll spend time looking at how we can best lay the groundwork for inclusive recruitment, running an inclusive campaign, taking time to consider how you might appear to potential candidates and finally from inclusive inductions to employee retention.
We’ll provide practical tools useful for any changemaker looking to embed inclusive practice within recruitment.

Managing Change
2025-12-01 10:30 - 16:30 | York, TBC
We understand that making systemic, sustainable change in organisations can be difficult. From internal to external factors and shifting environments, this session will take scenarios from arts organisations and give you the time and space to work through them. We’ll examine principles underpinning processes of change and explore strategies for effectively managing it. There will be opportunities to apply tools and techniques from the world of Organisational Change and consider how change management methodologies developed in business can be applied to the arts and to your own workplace.

Online Group Collaboration Session
2025-11-27 04:00 - 17:30, 2025-09-23 10:00 - 11:30, 2025-06-23 12:30 - 14:00 | Online Session
Spaces to share ideas, work through challenges you’re experiencing and hear what’s working in other organisations.

Online Project 2 - Inclusive Recruitment [Part 3]
2025-11-13 10:00 - 13:30 | Online Session

NEW for 2025: Bringing People With You
2025-11-06 10:30 - 16:30 | Citizens Theatre, 119 Gorbals Street, Glasgow, G5 9DS, United Kingdom
How do you bring people with you on your changemaker journey? It can be isolating, especially when you feel like the lone voice advocating for the value of spending time on the EDI agenda. We’ll explore strategies to empower you to bring people with you, increase your confidence in speaking up for the value of this work, investigate how you can use your workplace culture to your advantage, all the while adding to your Changemakers toolkit. Over the course of the day you’ll have time to focus on your own approach, as well as working collaboratively with others.

Online Project 2 - Inclusive Recruitment [Part 2]
2025-10-16 10:00 - 13:30 | Online Session

NEW for 2025: Preventing Sexual Harassment in your Organisation
2025-10-08 10:30 - 16:30 | London, TBC
Late in 2024, UK legislation was updated to place increased responsibilities onto employers to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace. During this session we’ll lay out what your organisation should now be aware of and the action it should be undertaking. We’ll also create space for you, as your organisation’s changemaker, to consider the role you could play in this, and how you could utilise this change in the law to bolster your organisation’s wider engagement in EDI. During the day you’ll have the chance to experience Tonic’s Preventing Sexual Harassment training so that you can return to work feeling informed, confident and better equipped to make change.

NEW for 2025: Tackling Bias in your Organisation
2025-09-18 10:30 - 16:30 | Lyceum Theatre, 21 Wellington Street, London, WC2E 7RQ, United Kingdom
As anyone involved in EDI work knows, the tackling of unconscious bias – your own, and your organisation’s – is a daily practice. In this session we’ll provide a refresher for those who’ve already done unconscious bias training (or an accessible introduction to the topic for those who’ve not). We’ll then take a deep dive into what this means for you as a changemaker; where might you be hitting walls based on the unconscious bias that sits within yourself and the people around you? And, crucially, how can you deploy the skills and techniques you’ve cultivated as a Changemaker to work through this productively?

Online Project 2 - Inclusive Recruitment [Part 1]
2025-09-09 10:00 - 13:30 | Online Session

Creating Successful Equality Action Plans
2025-07-01 10:30 - 16:30 | Nederlander House, 7 Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3NH, United Kingdom
An Equality Action Plan should be so much more than something that gathers dust in a shared folder. This workshop will give you the tools, templates and building blocks to make your Equality Action Plan a dynamic document which celebrates success, monitors progress, and truly reports on everything you are achieving as a changemaker.

NEW for 2025: Online Project 1 - Inclusion for Younger Colleagues
2025-06-19 10:00 - 13:30 | Online Session
This three-part online project addresses the impact of rapid social, economic, and technological changes on younger professionals in the arts. Based on recent research by Tonic and Central School of Speech & Drama, this series will highlight ways arts organisations can foster inclusion for younger colleagues, benefiting all age groups. Sessions run from March to June with tasks and activities between each half-day Zoom meeting.
