Participants on the Creatives Connect co-mentoring training programme, for educational and creative professionals, have today conducted a video link up with like-minded people across the Atlantic Ocean.
CapeUK have liaised with CAPE Chicago to bring together the Creatives Connect participants in the UK with an individual or a pair in the USA. The aim of this video link up is to share experiences, knowledge and to try and put co-mentoring into practice. Each pair will have approximately 45 minutes to work with each other and to ask questions.
This programme, facilitated by CapeUK and funded by Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE,) is about matching people from the educational sector with partners who work in the area of creativity, culture and the arts. Enabling them to take part in an inspirational training programme, think about their perspective on life and work, have the chance to further personal development, connect and reflect with peers and be encouraged to present their learning and thinking to a wider audience of invited peers and colleagues.
CapeUK invited applications from educational and creative professionals involved in the West and South Yorkshire Creative Partnerships Programme (however not all of them are from this network.) We required participants to be passionate about education or creativity and ensure that they believed that they could make a valid contribution to the programme. In the education sector we invited applications from; head teachers, teachers, school based staff, local authority officers, school governors etc… We also invited applications from people with an artistic and creative background such as artists, arts development officers, museum and gallery staff, trustees of arts organisations or creative professionals.
People from the educational sector were matched with partners who work in the area of creativity, culture and the arts. There are 16 pairs in total and the training has taken place over the last few months, the programme was launched with a one day of group training/reflection event and following the launch there has been a number of peer-to-peer sessions.
