creative arts mentoring
London
Artist Mentor enables contemporary artists and creative professionals to make
significant changes in their work and lives. We have mentored and coached
hundreds of creative clients from across the globe to improve their work, lives,
businesses, and their careers. We love helping creative people be more
successful. Take your moonshot! Ceri hand talks about the services that Artist
Mentor provides, and how, with the right kind of tailored coaching, you can
achieve creative, professional and personal goals that may have previously
eluded you. [The video will open in a pop-up window] Whether you want to make
better work, attract more studio visits, exhibitions, build your network, create
a more compelling website, make more income, or get that new job, we can help
you shine. Together we take stock of your work and creative journey to date,
clarify your strengths, purpose, and opportunities, and define the steps you
need to take to achieve your goals. We work with individuals over an agreed
period, as a challenging, critical friend, providing accountability to ensure
lasting transformation. We plan with you how to integrate what you’ve learned
within your everyday life and schedule, ensuring you continue to thrive. We
provide one-to-one and group sessions, providing learning and skill sharing
opportunities through expert led classes, resources and free community events
and resources. We also have a network of Associate Mentors we provide regular
work to - a diverse mix of experienced artists, curators, educators and
gallerists, enabling us to respond to increased demand and support a growing
range of client and sector needs. All sessions are confidential and your Artist
Mentor mentor or coach will be a committed, trusted critical friend. Why get a
Mentor or Coach? If you’re a creative, chances are you’re an introvert, deep
thinker and highly sensitive - great qualities for realising innovative work!
Unfortunately, we know that a high percentage of creative people can often feel
isolated, rejected, and suffer from self-doubt, negative self-talk, or imposter
syndrome. Old stories may weigh heavily and inhibit your growth, or you get
stuck in a fear of failure loop or suffer from self-destructive habits. It might
be that you simply can’t see the wood from the trees and have lost sight of your
priorities or strengths. Having a trusted champion, committed to helping you
flourish, helps you identify and make the changes necessary to reach your goals.
A mentor or coach believes in you, recognises your special sauce, identifies
opportunities, new tools, and growth potential with you, setting you challenges
or targets to help you take the appropriate steps. What's the difference between
Mentoring and Coaching? Mentoring A Mentor can serve as a critical sounding
board at critical points throughout your creative career, providing an insider's
perspective and guidance you may not be able to get from other sources. The role
of a mentor is to listen, learn, and advise and is usually a longer-term
relationship. A mentor can help you excel in your practice and career, and
become the best version of yourself, helping you achieve your goals, introducing
you to new ways of thinking, challenging your limiting assumptions, signposting,
and offering critical feedback. A mentor will often draw on their personal
experiences and expertise to help advise and encourage dialogue with their
mentee. This could be in the form of sharing a story, tools, resources, or
lessons learned from a challenge they overcame in their career. This kind of
personal dialogue is encouraged in a mentoring relationship. Coaching A Coach
encourages self-discovery and growth to secure lasting change. Together we
assess your current situation and challenges, identify limiting beliefs,
interrogate, and address perceived obstacles. We create a safe thinking
environment, ask incisive questions and devise a custom plan of action designed
to help you achieve specific outcomes. We nurture creative strategies based on
what fits best with your goals, personality and vision and foster accountability
to increase productivity. Coaching partnerships are usually more short term than
mentoring relationships, as they are usually objective driven and more
structured. Someone may seek out a coach to help them develop a specific skill
or work through a particular limiting belief. The coaching could well end once
that skill or objective had been acquired. A coach can help increase your
self-awareness: identifying areas for improvement, and challenging assumptions
that may be preventing you achieve your goals. Coaching is often used for the
development of leadership skills, where they may train you in the art of
questioning to equip you to manage others better or identifying limiting beliefs
in yourself. The relationship between a client and their coach is a
collaborative creative partnership.
