Friday 15 November 2024
10 AM - 2 PM or 1 PM - 5 PM
both sessions include lunch
Our Series of Care returns this autumn with Creative Confidence: Maintaining Momentum. Join us for a half-day group coaching session and explore how to embed balance in your creative practice, whilst maintaining a creative career with confidence.
Auriel Majumdar, host of our Creative Confidence Coaching sessions earlier this year, returns for Creative Confidence: Maintaining Momentum. This session is an intervention and a moment of connection to explore tools and approaches to drive your creative practice forward sustainably, laying the foundations for you to thrive.
This session is part of our Series of Care and is open to all artists and creatives of Bradford.
About the sessions
Through this group coaching session, we will explore
- Ways to balance your creative career without losing momentum
- How to keep pushing boundaries without losing confidence
- Ways of working intentionally and sustainably in the hustle and bustle of a freelance arts career
- How to create routines and habits that feel productive but not exhausting
- Developing best practices for ourselves for the future
- How to manage yourself and projects effectively and rewardingly
You can book a place at either the morning or afternoon session. You are welcome to join us for a shared lunch between the sessions.
Booking closes on Thursday 7 November at 11 PM
If you have any barriers to attending these sessions, see our FAQ Section below to see what bursaries and access funds we have available to support you.
Book your place
Who this workshop is for
This workshop is for you if you are
- A creative freelancer living in or working in the Bradford district
- 18 years old or over
- Interested in holistic approaches to developing healthy techniques for maintaining momentum and creative confidence in your career
- Open to contributing to a group coaching environment whilst applying the learning and reflections to your own practice
- You may have attended our previous Series of Care sessions on creative confidence and burnout prevention – though this is not essential
Meet the host
Auriel Majumdar
She/her
Auriel is a consultant, educator and creative coach.
“I believe that creativity is the energy that powers our lives, and I love working in creative ways, with creative people and I passionately believe in supporting people to make meaningful choices for themselves. I believe in mistakes and mess and lives fully lived not perfectly lived. I believe in stories, poetry and mystery. As I work, I feel myself surrounded and uplifted by my communities of practice – of artists, audiences, coaches, coachees, both past and present.
I feel privileged to be able to share my knowledge, experience, and opinion with people in many ways. I write and speak publicly about the topics that interest me and it is my great joy to be visible and have a voice in the world.”
About the venue
Kirkgate Centre, Shipley
The Kirkgate Centre is a recently renovated community and social action centre serving Shipley to improve the quality of life for the local communities. It is home to various charities including community arts charity, Hive Bradford, who offer a range of studios and workshops with low-cost membership.
FAQs
Our Series of Care is a programme of workshops and training days designed specifically to nurture and empower artists and creatives of Bradford. With a focus on wellbeing, our Series of Care has included sessions on creative confidence and tenacity, sustainable working practices, avoiding burnout, and knowing your worth and your rights when working as a freelancer in the arts and culture sector.
Bradford Producing Hub is a needs-led organisation and we constantly listen to the challenges and barriers faced by artists and creative freelancers in Bradford. We design programmes of support and training to help overcome some of these and support artists work towards achieving their creative potential.
Yes, we can offer bursaries to attend this event. These are not means tested, but please only request a bursary if this is something you need to enable you to participate. The bursary is there to cover your time where you would otherwise be working in a freelance capacity. If you are participating as an employee of an organisation, we would expect this time to be covered as part of your working hours.
The bursary available for this half-day session is £50.
To apply for this funding, please complete a Bursary & Access Fund form once you have registered for a place.
Access funds are also available. Please see the next section for more information.
Yes, we can cover travel and any other access costs that may otherwise present a barrier to you being able to participate in this event. Access costs include things like childcare and other caring costs; BSL, language and other interpretation costs; as well as access support workers, or any other access costs you might face.
To apply for this funding, please complete a Bursary & Access Fund form once you have registered for this event.
