Calmer, clearer live experiences for neurodivergent audiences.
Advisory support for producers and venues, helping performances and environments land with less friction, without changing the work itself.
Live entertainment • Performance environments • Neurodivergent-first
Calmer Experience Conditions
We help identify where sensory load, uncertainty, and environmental pressure create unnecessary strain, and support practical changes that make experiences easier to navigate.
Neurodivergent-First Thinking
Guest Sense works with a neurodivergent lens, considering how autistic people, ADHD audiences, and those with sensory sensitivities actually experience live environments.
Performances That Land More Clearly
By looking at pacing, structure, transitions, and surrounding conditions, we help performances and experiences feel clearer and less overwhelming, without changing the work itself.
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How Works
Practical advisory support designed for real-world live entertainment environments.
Neurodivergent Experience Advisory
Guest Sense provides advisory support to help producers and venues understand how performances and environments are received by neurodivergent audiences.
The focus is on identifying sensory and cognitive friction, exploring how creative and environmental factors interact, and supporting clearer, calmer audience experiences, without producing events or directing creative work.
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Observation of live performance and audience conditions
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Identification of sensory and cognitive friction points
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Advisory discussions around pacing, structure, and transitions
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Practical, experience-focused guidance
Audience Journey & Environment Reviews
Guest Sense reviews the full audience journey surrounding a live performance, from arrival and waiting, through the experience itself, to exit and decompression.
This work highlights where unclear information, sensory load, or environmental pressure may increase anxiety or disengagement for neurodivergent audiences.
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Arrival, entry, interval, and exit journey mapping
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Sensory environment review (sound, light, crowding, space)​
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Information clarity and expectation-setting review
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Clear, prioritised advisory recommendations
Who We Work With
Guest Sense works with organisations creating live, in-person experiences where people gather to engage with performances, events, or programmed activity.
Theatres and performance venues
Supporting audience experience conditions across performances and seasons.
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Festivals and multi-space events
Helping teams manage sensory load, transitions, and audience flow across complex environments.
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Touring producers
Advising on how work lands across different venues and conditions.
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Cultural organisations and attractions
Supporting clarity and calm where performance, interpretation, and visitor experience intersect.
Guest Sense works collaboratively and advisory-only, respecting creative intent while improving how experiences are received.
Our Approach
A calm, practical approach to neurodivergent experience design in live entertainment environments.
Designed for real-world experiences
Guest Sense works within live environments as they actually operate, with audiences, time pressure, sensory complexity, and creative ambition taken into account.
Practical, not theoretical
The work focuses on clear observations and achievable improvements, grounded in how neurodivergent audiences experience performances and spaces in real time.
Neurodivergent-informed
Guest Sense considers autistic experience, ADHD, sensory sensitivities, and anxiety, not as trends, but as lived realities that shape how people engage.
Calm, human, and clear
The aim is always to reduce friction, uncertainty, and overload, supporting experiences that feel easier to enter, stay with, and leave.
Guest Sense supports better experiences, not better processes.
Why Guest Sense Exists
Live entertainment environments are often designed around artistic output, technical delivery, and operational efficiency.
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Less attention is given to how performances are actually experienced, particularly by neurodivergent audiences.
For many people, friction doesn’t come from the work itself, but from sensory overload, unclear transitions, uncertainty, and the effort required to stay regulated in busy environments.
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Guest Sense exists to help producers and venues see these pressure points and address them with care and restraint, so performances and experiences can land more clearly, without diluting creative intent.
Start a Conversation
Guest Sense is currently in an early, introductory phase.
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If you’re a producer or venue thinking about how your work is experienced by neurodivergent audiences, particularly ahead of a new season, programme, or event, I’m always open to a calm, exploratory conversation.
No obligation. No pressure. Just a conversation.