ARTS PRACTITIONERS GROUP COACHING PROGRAMME

Becoming a Successful Arts Practitioner

Brighton & Hove Pride Culture ConneX, in partnership with Well Balanced Coaching, is offering 12 places on a Arts Practitioners Group Coaching programme. Ensure you read carefully the information below before completing the programme application form - link to form is below. 

This programme is for you if you are:

-         Wanting to earn an income from your creativity by delivering creative projects.

-         Frustrated that despite designing, and maybe even delivering, workshops/projects, they had poor attendance and were not as successful as you wished.

-         Finding it hard to find the time for your artistic practice alongside other work.

-         Struggling to focus, or deciding what to focus on, and get easily distracted.

-         Feel you lack confidence in marketing and financing your work.

Becoming a Successful Arts Practitioner is a group coaching programme that will develop your skills, knowledge and mindset, to earn income as an arts practitioner. This programme is not a taught course. There will be no taught fundraising or marketing in a formal sense. We will be exploring the psychological aspects of turning your creativity into a business and sharing ideas and experience.

By the end of the six month programme, (consisting of a two hour session once a month) you will have:

-         Developed an arts practitioners’ mindset, knowing how to turn your creativity into a business.

-         Increased your focus and clarity around creative projects you want to deliver. 

-         Identified how to create a better work/life balance, earn money from your creative work, market your project and how to deliver engaging online projects.

-         Gained new perspectives on your work.

-         Created a support network with other artists facing similar issues.

-         Each session will end with clear action points to help progress your work.

Programme Outline

Session 1: Call Yourself an Arts Practitioner?
In this session we explore turning your creativity into a business, a successful arts practitioner’s mindset and how to cultivate one. We explore limiting beliefs and how to counteract them.

Session 2: Finding the time
You’d be a successful artist/arts practitioner if only you had the time. This session explores your current work/life balance and how to balance creative delivery with your own creative practice (and everything else you have to do). We’ll look at designing creative projects to ensure enough time for planning, marketing, delivery, and evaluation.

Session 3: Financing your creativity
Artists don’t have to starve in garrets. In this session we look at how to earn an income as an arts practitioner – grants, commissions, creative workshops; which is right for your creative project? We’ll explore the options, share experience, and learn from each other.

Session 4: Marketing your work
You have a brilliant idea, but no one knows about it. Are you comfortable promoting your work? Confident in your marketing know how? In this session we explore how you feel about ‘being seen’, how to promote your work and make a pitch.

Session 5: Delivering arts projects online
How do you make your great arts idea work online? We’ll explore how to make zoom workshops engaging, enabling participants to connect despite being in different rooms.

Session 6: Your Call!
In the final session, programme participants choose the topic, whether that’s how to host an exhibition, show impact of creative work, evidence need for creative projects, or something entirely different. Working as a group you’ll get your questions answered and find new solutions.

Practicalities
The sessions take place once a month, (First & last session in-person - hopefully, other 4 sessions via zoom) and include group exercises, pair/triad working, group discussions, NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) and use of Zoom whiteboard. Zoom sessions will be recorded. You will need to feel comfortable working on zoom to take part in this programme.

Dates: 3^rd Thursday of the month:
18^th May, 15^th June, 20^th July, 21st September, 19^th October, 16^th November (No August date).

Time: 2-4pm

To apply: complete the application form by midnight, 24^th April 2023

As we are expecting this programme to be popular, to ensure places are not wasted, if you miss two sessions in a row, your place will be offered to the next person on the waiting list. As the programme is also about building a peer support network, please ensure you can attend most sessions before applying. Successful applicants will be informed during the week commencing 1st May.

Cost: £30 (That’s £5 per session – an absolute bargain).

Want to know what others thought? Check out this 2.5 minute video featuring feedback from 2022 participants.

Group facilitator

Dominique De-Light is a certified Coach and co-Founder of Creative Future, an arts charity working with under-represented artists, Dominique has twenty years of experience of supporting artists to realise their dreams and designing and delivering creative programmes. A creative herself, she knows the difficulties of balancing personal creative practice with professional projects, and how sometimes, the biggest barrier to creative success, is yourself. For more information on Dominique, see the My Story page on this website.