I offer private mentoring for artists, researchers and creative practitioners interested in developing new ways of thinking, making and engaging with the world.
I am available for conversations and mentoring around artistic research, embodied knowledge, sensory aesthetics, creative process, practice-based methodology, and interdisciplinary work.
My experience spans film, video, animation, performance and interdisciplinary practice. I have supervised PhD, MPhil and MRes, as well as MA and BA students, mentored artists, and led workshops and teaching across a range of institutional and independent contexts.
Mentoring can take the form of one-off sessions or a short series, depending on your needs. Sessions take place online, or in person (if based in Prague or London).
A small number of reduced-rate and sliding-scale places are available for artists and researchers with limited financial means.
If you are particularly interested in mentoring, workshops and embodied approaches to creative practice, you can also visit my dedicated platform, Back to Your Senses.
Sensory workshops
Sensory workshops have been a key strand of my research methodology for many years. I have led them at the Royal College of Art, Somerset House, and at a range of other institutions and events across Europe and Japan. Rooted in embodied enquiry, these workshops invite participants to explore perception, memory, atmosphere and place through attentive sensory engagement, opening up new ways of relating to both creative practice and the surrounding world.
Below are examples of past and ongoing workshops
If you are interested in working together or would simply like to find out more, 🔗please get in touch.
Artistic research and pedagogy
My pedagogical approach grows out of a long-term commitment to artistic and practice-based research. It is shaped by my work on the role of the body in meaning-making, the importance of situated knowledge, and the value of sensory attention in creative and critical practice.
Informed by more than twenty years of teaching and workshop facilitation, as well as by my editorial work on Tangible Territory, this approach draws on embodied cognition, situated learning and artistic enquiry as ways of generating knowledge.
My recent book, Exiled from Our Bodies: How to Come Back to Our Senses (Routledge, 2025), brings together many of the concerns that underpin both my artistic and pedagogical work.
I see knowledge not as a fixed object but as an active, transformative process. Artistic research, in this sense, is a way of deepening experience, expanding freedom, and opening new relations and connections. It is qualitative, performative and exploratory rather than purely descriptive.
My teaching often explores non-verbal, multi-sensory, embodied, situated, emotional and poetic forms of knowledge. It also emphasises process over outcome, thinking through making, dialogue with materials and place, the generative role of accident and play, and interdisciplinary exchange across art, science and philosophy.
Making Sense
Making Sense is a platform I initiated to bring together art, research and sensory experience in a shared public context. Combining discussion, practice-based exploration and participatory formats, it explores how we come back to our senses and how embodied forms of attention can generate new knowledge, connection and reflection.
First edition of the Making Sense mini-festival: https://cinestheticfeasts.com/2025/05/07/making-sense-mini-festival/
If you would like to get involved, 🔗please get in touch.
You can also follow us online: https://www.instagram.com/making_sense_fest/
Sensory Workshops (2006 – ongoing)
Dissenters Gallery: these workshops helped to develop my participatory performance called Journey to the Interior, for Open Senses Festival, 2017. Watch here:
Journey to the Interior: Interviews with participants of the immersive multi-sensory performance Journey to the Interior, created for OPEN SENSES festival by Tereza Stehlikova
FAMUFEST: Storytelling for all the senses
(Famufest is a multi-genre film festival organised annually by the students of the Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague)
Our current Western society is dominated by visual perception. Appearance is more important than feeling. Our visual field is flooded with (moving) images. But what about our other senses? How do they contribute to the emotions, feelings, and reactions that the world evokes in us? How and what do they communicate? A workshop for sharing stories for all senses. It is focused on refreshing your (not just visual) perception, encouraging playfulness, and tickling your imagination.
SKIN DEEP Territories (Developmental phase of Infra-ordinary Lab), 2022-23
The Infra-ordinary Lab has been developed through a series of collaborative workshops and local encounters, engaging with the place through all the senses and experiencing it through all the seasons.
Below are some images capturing this process.
Places Senses and Imagined workshop (SISSA, Trieste, 2022)
Below is a film from a workshop I led, which was part of an art and science gathering MIND THE GAP , hosted at SISSA, Trieste and organised by Alessandro Treves and Noga Arikha, with the active participation of some of SISSA PhD students in cognitive neuroscience and in other fields. Mind the Gap invited participants to confront and analyse multiple aspects of space, from the perspectives of physics, architecture, urbanism, the arts, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy.
Below is a short document from the workshop, where participants share their findings.
TOUCH TALK TELL: Sensory Storytelling (London, Somerset House, 2017)
A free workshop devised in response to the Perfume exhibition, building on Tereza’s ongoing artistic research into using all our senses to tell stories, by activating memories, emotions and imagination, in order to offer a more rich and nuanced experience of the every day.
I led two workshops for Perfume: Synesthesia late event at the Somerset House, on 31st August 2017. My concept for these was developed in response to the Perfume exhibition, and builds on my ongoing artistic research into using all our senses to tell stories, by activating memories, emotions and imagination, in order to offer a more rich and nuanced experience of the every day. The participants were invited to activate their less dominant senses (especially touch and smell), to explore the connection between these and their memories, emotions and imagination, and finally had the opportunity to use these new insights to create their own multi-sensory mini-stories. They were first initiated by being taken on an interior journey, guided by instructions, hints and questions. What they encountered was a secret world, a miniature landscape of different textures, smells, shapes and consistencies… Once sensitised participants were able to associate various textures and materials with their memories, emotions and imaginings…Finally, the participants were able to create their own responses: scented journeys, enclosed within a transparent container.I have also asked them to write a full list of ingredients, real and also imaginary.
