Deadline: Friday 14 May 2021
The Resilience Programme is a new mentoring initiative run by Applied Arts Scotland and Craft Scotland to help and support makers to navigate these particularly challenging times. There is an enormous amount of collective knowledge and experience in the craft community and the pandemic has forced makers to be even more innovative, to reinvent their ways of working and rapidly learn new skills. The Resilience Programme will help makers tap into this collective wisdom to gain new perspectives, take valuable and supported time to reflect and develop the resilience required to re-energise and revitalise their practice.
The HCA has been asked to recruit Mentors for the Resilience Programme from across the UK. We are looking for makers with at least five years experience of running their own practice and keen to support others. You will not need to have had any previous mentoring experience as training will be provided in a half day workshop on Thursday 3 June.
“Mentoring is to support and encourage people to manage their own learning in order that they may maximise their potential, develop their skills, improve their performance and become the person they want to be.”
Eric Parsloe, The Oxford School of Coaching and Mentoring
What we are looking for
As the definition above explains, effective mentoring offers structured time for discussion, with the mentor listening and questioning the mentee to help them form their own plan. Mentors will not be asked to teach or share making skills but rather offer mentees support to develop their own action plans. So we are looking for individuals who already have reflective skills or are keen to develop them.
We want to create a pool of approximately 20 potential mentors from which we can make mentoring matches for the Resilience Programme participants. Those who are matched will be contracted to undertake 6 x 1.5 hour mentoring meetings from July to December 2021 with a fee payable.
We are aware that not all potential mentors will be matched in this phase of the Resilience Programme, but we hope that in providing training in mentoring best practice all those selected will develop useful transferrable knowledge and skills, and the opportunity to be considered for other mentoring programmes.
What we are offering
- A free half day Mentor Training workshop delivered by Zoom on Thursday 3 June, 2pm to 5pm
- For those who are successfully matched, payment of £100 per 1.5 hour mentoring session (six sessions in total) = £600
How to apply
Please send a copy of your CV, up to 3 thumbnail images of your work, and a personal statement of no more than 500 words detailing your reasons for wanting to become a mentor, any previous relevant experience and any longer term professional benefits you anticipate in undertaking the training.
Please send this to hello@appliedartsscotland.org.uk with the heading ‘Mentor Application’ by 14 May 2021.
