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Sustaining a Creative Career | July 2024

Start DateDurationCostMax Participant Numbers
Tuesday 30th July 20243 x hours€36012

Overview

This one-day, in-person training is designed for creative professionals seeking to enhance their career resilience and adaptability. The program offers practical tools and strategies to navigate the evolving creative industry, aiming at professional satisfaction and personal fulfillment. Through reflective exercises, interactive sessions, and collaborative activities, participants will explore personal strengths, identify career resources, set actionable goals, and develop a strengths-based approach to career growth.

The training also addresses adaptability, challenges negative career thinking, and leverages networks and transferable skills. Post-training, participants can access one-on-one career coaching for personalized support.

Join us for an explorative day dedicated to sustaining and enhancing your creative career.’

After the workshop each participant will receive 3 x 1:1 online career coaching sessions with Andrew Macklin.

What will this course cover?

  • Transferrable skills
  • Careers in the 21st Century
  • Career Timeline
  • Your own career needs
  • Avoiding burnout
  • Identifying Strengths
  • Career Resources & capitol
  • Career Anchors
  • Future careers

Learning outcomes

  • ● Understand the need for adaptability in modern creative careers
  • ● Identify the unique personal themes, skills and interests that inform
  • personally fulfilling career decision-making
  • ● Understand the elements of work needed for long term subjective
  • well-being
  • ● Develop a strengths-based approach to career development
  • ● Identify individual career resources and capitol
  • ● Explore a wide variety of future possible work-selves
  • ● Identify transferable skills
  • ● Developing long and short term career goals
  • ● Challenging negative career thinking
  • ● Mapping personal networks to support career goals
  • ● Know how to shift into new areas of work
  • ● Support career development through a solution-focused approach

Participant profile/Who can apply/Eligibility

This workshop is suitable for people working, or wishing to work, in the creative industries who want to create a sustainable career that fits in with their goals and ambitions.

Due to our funding, this course is only available to those resident in the Republic Of Ireland.
For any queries, please contact frankeaveney@furthr.ie

Tutor information

Andrew Macklin is a career practitioner, actor and trainer who is passionate about supporting creatives to develop more sustainable & fulfilling careers. An ICF credentialed career coach and founder of Boundless Careers he works with universities, charities and arts organisations to deliver bespoke career training for creatives. He has studied Career Management, Counselling and Coaching at Birkbeck University, London and is a member of the Career Development Institute (UK).  As an actor Andrew’s career spans over two decades of stage and screen work with companies such as the Abbey Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company and Old Vic Theatre. On screen he has worked on productions for RTE, BBC, ITV, Ch5 and FX.  As a career coach he works regularly with Minding Creative Minds in Ireland and Wellbeing in the Arts in the UK to support creatives from every part of the sector with their career development.

Venue/location

Dublin for the in person day and then all one to one coaching sessions will be online.

Costs/fee

Course fee €350 per person (Normally €850 without with CCIS support)

Deadline for course registration and payment

Monday 15th July or before if all 12 places are booked

Dates and times of the course

Tuesday 30th July, 10.00 to 17.00

Sustaining a Creative Career

350.00
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