The best guitar workshop I ever went to, was run by Ken Nicol at Fylde a few years ago.

I sort of agree -its nice to have an active component for the students. But that day changed my guitar playing forever - just Ken showing us some of the places we could take guitar playing. Stuff that never occurred to me before.

This year as I'm playing at Fylde, I have volunteered to do a workshop - on a farly narrow subject - ragtime guitar in the key of C - making a start. i really hope I'm not insulting people by choosing such a narrow subject. I did this because I wanted to have an active component in the seminar. I don't think I can be fascinating like Ken was - just talking about different tunings and less obvious ways of playing them.

I guess you have to work to your strengths as a teacher!