Dates
Monday 27 - Wednesday 29 January 2025
10 AM - 5 PM
Location
Ilkley Playhouse
Register by
Sunday 5 January 2025 at 11 PM
Welcome to Master Your Mindset, a transformative 3-day intensive designed specifically for artists and creative freelancers looking to level up their creative confidence.
What is Master Your Mindset?
As artists, your journey is unique, yet many challenges are shared: resilience, setting boundaries, and confidently presenting your ideas. This intensive offers a deep dive into these key areas, equipping you with the tools to strengthen your mindset, navigate your career with confidence, and develop long-lasting resilience.
What you’ll gain
- Practical Outcomes: Each day concludes with concrete takeaways, such as an action plan or personal statement to anchor your progress
- Mindset Shifts: Learn to reframe failure, work with challenges rather than against them, focus on possibilities, and redirect your energy toward what you can control
- Comprehensive Support: Explore strategies for resilience-proofing, boundary-setting, and communicating your ideas with clarity and confidence
Who Master Your Mindset is for
This intensive is for artists and creative freelancers in Bradford who are ready to enhance their confidence, build resilience, and connect with like-minded individuals on a shared journey toward artistic growth.
You will be:
- 18 and over
- Living or making work in Bradford
What each day will cover
Day 1: Mastering Your Mindset
Kick off your journey by delving into the core of creative confidence: your mindset. This full-day session tackles the challenges of self-comparison, self-doubt, and the need for external validation, while also exploring ways to trust your worth and celebrate your achievements. You’ll learn to turn failures into opportunities for growth and address how past experiences, including trauma, might influence your work. By the end of the day, you’ll have actionable strategies to transform your mindset into a foundation for resilience and self-belief.
Day 2: Setting and Maintaining Boundaries
This day is all about reclaiming your time, energy, and focus by mastering the art of boundaries. Learn to say “no” with confidence, overcome procrastination, and develop discipline while staying true to your priorities. We’ll also address the impact of unsupportive relationships and the feelings of responsibility for others’ expectations, empowering you to create a more balanced and sustainable approach to your creative practice.
Day 3: Talking About Yourself and Your Ideas
The final day focuses on building confidence in sharing your story and advocating for your work. You’ll explore how to ask for opportunities, pursue work proactively, and cultivate collaborations that align with your values. Strategies for authenticity, working with neurodiversity, and overcoming imposter syndrome will help you present yourself and your ideas with clarity and conviction, leaving you equipped to grow your network and build a supportive community.
Bursaries and Access Funds
We appreciate that 3-days out of your work or creative practice can be a large chunk of time. This January we want to encourage you to invest this time in your personal and creative growth and wellbeing. To support this, we have bursaries and access funds available to minimise barriers to participation. For more information see our FAQ Section below.
Register to Master Your Mindset
We have 30 places available for this 3-day intensive. If we receive over 30 registrations, we will allocate places based on your answers in the registration form and will prioritise those who can attend all 3 dates.
We will confirm your place no later than Monday 13 January 2025.
If you have any questions or you need to withdraw your registration, please email us at hello@bdproducinghub.co.uk
Meet the host of Master Your Mindset
Astra Soulfeather
They/them
Astra Soulfeather (formerly Eleanor Snare) is a trauma-informed facilitator and coach who helps people get to where they need to be. They have been trusted to design and deliver multiple successful workshops for Bradford Producing Hub, including Knowing Your Worth and coached creatives one-to-one as part of 2024’s Creative Confidence programme. Astra’s background is rich and varied, encompassing studying at art school, marketing for international brands, creating soft skills courses for corporate businesses, working as a university lecturer, facilitating workshops, appearing on panels and as a conference speaker, coaching all alongside developing their own artistic practice.
About the Venue
Ilkley Playhouse
Ilkley Playhouse is a live theatre in Ilkley, Bradford. It is owned and run by Ilkley Players Ltd a not-for-profit charitable organisation.
There is on-street parking in New Brook Street and in the public car parks marked on the above map.
Ilkley Playhouse can accommodate wheelchairs in both the Wharfeside Theatre and the Wildman Studio.
For more access information head to ilkleyplayhouse.co.uk
FAQs
What is Series of Care?
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.
I can't attend all 3 dates, can I still register?
To get the most out of this intensive, we recommend you attend all 3 days, especially the first day. If you can’t please still register, however, if we receive more registrations than places, priority will be given to those who can attend all 3 dates.
Are there bursaries available to attend this event?
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.
A bursary of £75 is available for each full-day session.
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.
Do you cover access and travel costs?
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.
