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

• 13th September 2023 (2pm – 4pm)

• 20th September 2023 (2pm – 4pm)

• 27th September 2023 (2pm – 4pm)

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 20 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, including working in a variety of venues with varying degrees of arts & health projects;
• 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.