Examples of current training programmes on arts project management and socially engaged arts practice.

 

Having a ‘Learning Conversation’ : 10 Terrific Tips

Gerri worked on Creative Partnerships London North’s ‘Learning Conversations’ professional development programme, which provided an opportunity for creative practitioners to deepen their understanding of creative learning processes and build their skills in understanding and addressing communication blocks. She has written a short report based on the learning journals kept during the training programme by participants, in the form of 10 terrific tips.

Tip 2:   'Listen with all of you – have the courage to listen, have the confidence to listen and hear challenge, have the openness to give up your own perspective'

The report, entitled ‘ The Learning Conversation: A Model for Professional Development’ can be obtained through the resources section of A.N.D

www.anewdirection.org.uk

 

Sustainability

Gerri has developed a new 2 hour seminar for small and medium scale arts and voluntary organisations and freelance practitioners to look at issues of sustainability.  Whilst there is no magic wand on offer, the seminar suggests the kinds of questions organisations need to ask to help them develop action plans to help them to survive and grow in difficult times. It also offers information on a range of external factors which could affect these plans, positively and negatively

 

 

Guest Lecturer

This year, Gerri has been a guest lecturer at the University of Manchester’s Centre for Applied Theatre and for the Arts Management programme at the University of Hull. At Manchester, she lectured post-graduate students on Ethical Practice in Community Theatre and at Hull she spoke to under-graduate students on Arts and Regeneration.