Groundwork: Designing & Implementing Support for Creative Practitioners

General Information.

This six hour training course takes place over three 2-hour sessions and you should attend all three sessions. The sessions take place on:

• 1st July (3pm - 5pm)
• 6th July (3pm - 5pm)
• 8th July (3pm - 5pm)

The course takes place over Zoom and the course outline is below. If you have any questions please contact us.

Who is this for?

This training is for organisations commissioning and working with creative practitioners in the field of arts and health. This could include statutory and charitable organisations delivering community arts programmes (i.e social prescribing schemes) and arts organisations that commission artists. This training is not designed for individual artists.

How it Works.

Training groups are capped at a maximum of 15 participants to maximise involvement in discussions. Through a combination of knowledge sharing and facilitated group conversations this training will provide you with:

• A greater understanding of supporting the needs of creative practitioners within the workplace;
• An action plan identifying achievable short and long term goals specific to your organisation or institution;
• Peer-to-peer discussions exploring insights, challenges and solutions to supporting creative practitioners.

Groundwork builds on our experiences working on either side of the fence as both commissioned artists and being commissioners.

The training is comprised of three 2-hour online sessions covering the following:

Session 1.

• Defining support — exploring the various support mechanisms that can be offered to create an environment where creative practitioners can flourish;
• Exploring good and bad practice — identifying beneficial approaches and common challenges to providing sustainable support.

Session 2.

• Means of offering support — exploring diverse ways in which support can be offered to creative practitioners with an individualised approach;
• Developing a code of best practice for your organisation — considering formal and informal support, accessibility and flexibility, identifying existing and new resources.

Session 3.

• Short and long term action planning — identifying individualised and achievable actions for your organisation
• Developing a bespoke pledge to supporting creative practitioners — designing an ethos outlining your organisation’s sustainable commitment to how it supports creative practitioners.

Optional Follow-up Package.

For an additional fee each attending organisation can opt-in for a series of follow-up activities, including:

• Check-in with how the delivery of your pledge is going — exploring what is going well and what challenges you are facing in implementing your support offers. This is done via an initial online survey and then a follow-up Zoom of up to 30mins with the training facilitators.
• 2hr online workshop (with a max of 8 other attendees) — an opportunity to reconnect with training peers, share progress and benefit from both facilitated and peer to peer solutions to specific challenges.

About the Facilitator.

Daniel Regan is a photographic artist, facilitator, producer and consultant working across multiple leadership roles in the arts & health sector. His artistic practice focuses on the transformational impact of arts on mental health, building on his own lived experience. Daniel is the Founder and Exec Director of the Arts & Health Hub.

Daniel has experience of working on both sides of the fence as a commissioned artist within a multitude of arts & health environments and as a commissioner of hundreds of artists in the sector. His experience comes from extensively working in NHS hospital arts, commissioning artists through the Arts & Health Hub for a range of projects, and from devising and delivering the Hub’s innovative Support Hub project.