TWO PERSPECTIVES. ONE HUMAN-FIRST APPROACH.
30+ YEARS OF EXPERIENCE.
FOR THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE CREATIVE WORK POSSIBLE
BEHIND THE STAGE
Crews, producers, and event teams
Recognise overload and sensory fatigue, communicate under pressure and strengthen boundaries. Build healthier ways to work and recover around demanding productions.
BEHIND THE MUSIC
Artists, performers,and creators
Navigate pressure, rejection, visibility and creative blocks. Explore identity, confidence and boundaries while protecting your energy and creative capacity.
CREATIVE MINDS
Creative teams and organisations
Understand thinking styles, communication preferences and sensory needs. Make practical agreements that support inclusion, collaboration and creativity.
LEADING CREATIVE MINDS
Managers, labels, and creative leaders
Lead with empathy, clarity and boundaries. Build psychologically safer cultures, respond appropriately when people struggle and know when to signpost.
Think Curious® leverages behavioural psychology to enhance creativity and provide mental wellness support for individuals and teams.
Their focus includes leadership development and women’s empowerment programs, using tools like the Curiosity Canvas® and Curious 360® to help people understand themselves, strengthen relationships, and navigate change confidently.
Calm Nest Collective® is rooted in extensive experience across live music, festivals, sustainability, mental health awareness and neuroinclusive practice.
It combines mentoring for artists and event professionals with practical approaches to wellbeing, sensory-friendly environments and inclusive event delivery through Calm by Design® framework and Calm Nest Spaces® – bespoke sensory rooms, designed for live event environments.
THE WHO BEHIND THIS
Meet Megan & Nika
Every movement starts with a chat. Ours stretched across continents. Nika, born in Europe, living between continents. Megan, originally from South Africa, returned after decades in Europe.
Two women, different paths, united by a belief: the world thrives when every mind belongs.
Megan
Nika
We met online. A simple exchange about our work turned into much more. Nika had a dream: “I want to create Africa’s first Neurodiversity and Mental Health Summit.” Megan responded instantly: “I’ve been dreaming of raising neurodiversity awareness across Africa.”
That conversation birthed Calm + Curious. We aren’t just planning a conference; we are crafting a much-needed platform for dialogue.
Nika, with her background in music festivals and large scale events, focuses on creating calm, sensory-friendly spaces. Megan, with her expertise in behavioural psychology, champions spaces where diverse thinking thrives.
As neurodivergent founders, they know inclusion means designing spaces where differences are celebrated from the start.
Calm + Curious aims to spark conversations tailored to the Global South’s realities and voices. Not borrowed solutions.
What began as a single conversation is now a shared mission to transform how the Global South views neurodiversity, inclusion, and mental health.
This is just the beginning.
WHY WE DO THIS
We create the platforms that guide the conversations that matter most.
Opening space for the difficult, necessary dialogues that shape people, organisations, and community.
THE C.A.L.M. METHOD®
Every Calm + Curious conversation follows four simple steps.
connect
It starts with people.
Listen first. Hear lived experiences. Make sure every voice has a place before any solutions
are discussed.
appreciate
Stay curious.
Explore different perspectives, evidence and experiences. Challenge assumptions with
openness and respect.
learn
Turn ideas into action.
Take what you’ve discovered and create practical tools, skills, and solutions people can use immediately.
move
Create lasting change.
Design environments, workplaces, and communities where everyone can thrive.
Calm Nest Spaces® : Room to Reset
Calm Nest Spaces® are Africa’s first, trailblazing bespoke sensory-friendly quiet rooms for festivals, concerts, conferences, expos, venues and live events.
They give audiences, artists and crew a calmer place to pause, regulate, recharge and rejoin the experience when they are ready. Each space is tailored to its setting and thoughtfully designed around a range of sensory needs. Through careful consideration of lighting, sound, texture, scent and body awareness, we create supportive environments that offer relief from noise, bright lights, crowds and constant stimulation. With comfortable seating, softer lighting and considered sensory features, Calm Nest Spaces® make room for rest, choice and participation, helping more people stay connected to live culture on their own terms.
RESET
Leave overwhelm behind, reset in our soothing sensory haven that refreshes mind and body.
RECHARGE
Step away from the buzz, recharge in cosy calm with soft lights and gentle vibes.
RECONNECT
Enter peace, reconnect with yourself, emerge refreshed and ready for what’s next.
What are Calm Nest Spaces®
Ever wonder how our senses shape everything we feel and do? From sights and sounds to touch and scents, they’re key to balancing emotions, mood, and daily calm, especially in our ever busy world.
That’s where sensory rooms come in: thoughtfully crafted havens that spark your senses for real therapeutic relief. Born in the 1970s, these sensory-friendly spaces now thrive in schools, hospitals, events, and offices, think interactive play zones for kids’ growth or quiet calming rooms for stress reset.
In short, a sensory room is your personal retreat: step away from the chaos, reconnect through gentle sensory cues, and hit refresh on your wellbeing.
Olfactory
Smell
Tactile
Touch
Visual
Sight
Proprioceptive
Body awareness
Auditory
Sound
Need a quick reset? Our sensory room is a peaceful retreat from the noise of the everyday. Reconnect through calming touch, light, and sound in a space designed for effortless relaxation. Simply sink in, breathe, and let the tension melt away.
Inside a Calm Nest Space®, nature-inspired design meets sensory harmony. Through gentle light, soothing audio, and tactile bliss, we provide an instant mental refresh and lasting emotional balance.
In their words
How is it like to work with us and experience Calm Nest Spaces®?
Louisa Parsons, Operations Manager
“The Quiet Room was a wonderful success. The space felt incredibly welcoming, thoughtfully put together, and accessible to all. The variety of furniture, fidget toys, and calming elements created a genuinely soothing environment that attendees really appreciated. It was also very well used, with over 100 people visiting across the two show days. We were delighted with how positively it was received, and it truly felt like the start of what we hope will be a long-lasting relationship. Calm Nest Collective® were fantastic to work with throughout the process. Your communication was always quick and helpful, and you took full ownership of the setup and delivery, ensuring everything was in place and ready for opening right on time.
We couldn’t have asked for a smoother collaboration. Thanks again for your work and care on this project.”
Aleksandra Petrovska,
“As someone who tends to feel anxious and easily overwhelmed, I truly appreciated visiting the Calm Nest Space® once again. The concept of having a safe, quiet retreat in the middle of a large trade show is simply wonderful. The 15 minutes I spent there sitting comfortably, listening to nature sounds through the headphones, and resting my eyes, made a remarkable difference. It allowed me to reset, recharge, and return to the event feeling calm, focused, and ready for the rest of the day.”
Calm + Curious Podcast (formerly known as Pink Nest Podcast) is a space for candid conversations about the people, ideas, and experiences shaping creative work and live culture.
Hosted by Nika Brunet, the show goes beyond polished bios and highlight reels to explore the realities of building a career, a business, or a community, especially for women and under-represented voices.
From music, live events, festivals, backstage life, and the creative industries to burnout and recovery, career shifts, neurodivergence, entrepreneurship, leadership, belonging, and purpose, these are the conversations you won’t hear on the main stage.
Through honest conversations with founders, artists, musicians, creatives, event professionals, crew, carers, leaders, thinkers, and people navigating change, Calm + Curious makes space for lived experience, curiosity, and care. Expect conversations about the moments that connect us, challenge us, and change us, alongside practical insight, humour, and hope.
Have a story, perspective or project you want to share with the world?
We are looking for guests with thoughtful, honest experiences across creative industries, live events, music, entrepreneurship, wellbeing, inclusion and community-building.
Apply to be a guest on the Calm + Curious Podcast!
Listen to the Podcast: Spotify · Apple · YouTube · Amazon Music · Audible · RSS
WAYS TO WORK TOGETHER
One-off clarity sessions
Short mentoring programmes
Ongoing mentoring support
Tailored workshops
Team development & Leadership programmes
Inclusive event design, sensory rooms and consultancy
Speaking, panel hosting and facilitated conversations, and more
Every movement starts with a chat.
Whether you want to explore a partnership, bring a Calm + Curious dialogue to your organisation, or simply share your story, we’d love to listen. Drop us a note below and let’s start the conversation.