Maria Pattinson

Outis Company is Maria Pattinson and her creative community. 

Outis (Pronounced ‘ootis’ as in ‘toot’) comes from ancient Greek meaning ‘no one ‘ or ‘nobody’. The Greek hero Odysseus named himself Outis to avoid being eaten by the giant Polyphemus.

Outis Company is what we do together to find creative solutions to today’s challenges.

Outis Company : No One Alone

Outis : weaving together arts in health and health in arts.

Maria is a highly experienced facilitator of mental health and wellbeing training. She supports arts organisations to become healthier places of work for creatives and administrative staff. She supports health organisations to include creativity in their thinking and project delivery.

Organisations Maria has worked with recently include : Chisenehale Dance Space, Kiln Theatre , Curve Theatre, Kenny Wax Ltd, SOLT and UK Theatres. Maria is also the Mental Health lead for international aid programs run by The Lady Fatemeh Trust in Tanzania, Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Bridging the gap between you and I .

Read about our past, present and future projects.

We have worked on amazing projects with incredible people in the past and we hope to in the future as well. Have a look at past projects, future endeavours and collaborations here.

We invite you to join our mission.

Through our work, we invite you to step into spaciousness and joy.

What stories do we culturally need to give space to now and how do we hold those stories in such a way that they illuminate pathways towards a bright and vibrant future for us all.

In Your Words.

Connecting people around the globe.

Maria is based in Brighton UK and works nationally and internationally. She currently has clients in Tanzania, Kenya, Iraq and Gaza. We take our work wherever people gather : online or in a location that is good for you. Our work is developing an international network of creative people who are supporting others in pathways to improved wellbeing.

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The myth of Odysseus and the Cyclops has it that on his way back to Ithaca, the hero and his men ended up in the land of the Cyclopes – fierce, one-eyed giants. There, Odysseus was trapped in a cave of the Cyclops Polyphemus who ate two of the men the king of Ithaca was traveling with and was about to eat Odysseus himself. It is then, that Odysseus got Polyphemus drunk, told him that his name is “Nobody” and after that blinded the one-eyed giant. Later, when the other Cyclopes asked Polyphemus: “Who blinded you?”, he responded: “Nobody.” With no proper way of naming the man who injured him, Polyphemus was unable to find him and seek revenge.