Our Mission

Empowering Creatives with the adaptive skills to create more sustainable and fulfilling careers.

 

Our Mission

We exist to empower creatives with more adaptive and sustainable approaches to leading their own careers development, at every stage.

We believe that great art starts with the people who make it and that they deserve high-quality, professional career support designed specifically with creatives in mind.

Creative careers can be challenging and complicated lone ventures. Much of the professional support available to creatives has a short term focus on individual projects and fixed skill development. Our approach is evidence-based and informed by the latest research on creative careers.

We provide professional career support aimed at empowering creatives with adaptive skills and strategies that can be facilitate fulfilling careers across a lifetime.

 

“This project has been instrumental in propelling me forward in my creative career.”

— Breaking Ground participant

 

“I found the content to be an excellent introduction to a more positive vision of my future career. I feel that I can apply more of my innate abilities to various aspects of my future career.“

- Career Mapping for Creatives Participant

 

“Exceptionally useful… allowed for an important shift in career perception.”

- Developing and Managing a Creative Career - Participant

“Great training, very inspiring and I believe it will be beneficial! Thank you.”

- Career Self-Management for Creatives - Participant

 

What We’ve Achieved

  • Worked 1-2-1 with over 100’s of creatives from across the UK, Ireland and Europe to develop more sustainable and fulfilling careers.

  • Delivered 400+ hours of career coaching sessions to creatives across the entire sector.

  • Developed and delivered the ‘Breaking Ground’ artist development project in 2021 & 2022. One of the first group projects of its kind to incorporate peer-to-peer support, career theory and psychological well-being into artist development.

  • Developed a range of training including ‘Sustaining a Creative Career’ one day group training in adaptive career skills for Cultural and Creative Industries Skillnet, Ireland.

  • Designed and delivered ‘Career Mapping for Creatives’; a three hour training in self-directed career management for graduates at university level who are entering the creative sector.

  • Created and currently deliver the ‘Freelance 'Problem Solving’ sessions for Freelancers Make Theatre Work, an advocacy group for freelance creatives working in the UK theatre industry.

  • Created career development workshops for Minding Creative Minds, a service who offer free 24/7 well-being and support for Irish creative sector.