Arts Practice Mentoring

Overview

Please note.  I currently have no availability: There are openings in Jan’22. Feel free to contact me by writing to the email below.

INDIVIDUAL ARTS PRACTICE MENTORING

Whether you are new to writing, or text-based art-making, or are more experienced, these mentoring sessions are designed to support you in any way you require at this point in time.

They can provide you with a place to talk through the development of your ideas, content and materials, share your personal and creative motivations, shake off procrastination, and hone in on your methods, strengths, ways of working.

We might look at ways you plan a piece of work, organise your time, and how to enable your concentration, deepen your focus and sense of inner freedom.

Questions of identity, background, and experiential living often brush against the status quo and can at times deeply test our resolve. These are important aspects to tease out in order to favour your approach to your work. Building up your sense of purpose, along with an excitement about making work and taking new risks is crucial to any long-term creative development. A capacity for planning, adaptability, tactical thinking and contextual response is also extremely valuable.

Writing can take many forms, use different content and outputs, be creative or non-fiction. It can be part of a performance, sound-pieces, or site-specific. Each presents their own sets of questions. If you are preparing a reading, or setting up a show, we can rehearse it together and set you up for your online presentations.

These mentoring sessions are private and tailored to support and encourage your processes, your thoughts, your risk-taking, your dilemmas and grow your fearlessness, and sense of confidence.

WHO YOU ARE

I have been developing these mentoring sessions to deal with the personal and professional demands of working through the isolation we have all been affected by this past year. Things are changing and the sessions are here to help and encourage writers and artists of all kinds pick up your own steam again, assess your priorities and sense of risk, and apply yourself to getting further and deeper in your practice.

The sessions are also tailored to support independent practitioners (coaches, curators, organisers, team leaders…) who wish to tap more into your creative energy to bring a creative mindset to the fore in your work and decision-making process, and overall choose to enhance the creative pull and assets of your personal and inner life.

HOW IT WORKS

The sessions are intimate and personalised. We set the agenda together, talk about what you would like to achieve, discuss what might be holding you back or help you forward. We then plan how to progress this together, and support your various thresholds.

We create a pace and focus together so as to best work with your level, experience and needs. To make our work together worthwhile in deepening your practice, commitment for packages of sessions across a few months is essential.

Sessions are usually in English as the vehicular language. They can also be in Norwegian, French or other languages as part of your work. Work developed in multiple languages is more than welcome.

If this feels like something you could benefit from, or if you have any additional questions, just get in touch. Prior to any commitment, I offer a 20 mins free initial consultation to make sure I can be of help and  that we “click”.

Sessions come in packages of hourly sessions that take place every two weeks to allow for steady development. Sessions can take place across any timezones at times mutually agreed.

1 pack of 5 individual sessions
£ 435 (£87 per session) fixed rate + admin fees where applicable (paypal/bank transfer)
Payment plan is offered.

Do make contact by emailing me here.

Caroline Bergvall,  Oct’ 21.