An Alternative for Creative Leaders
A different approach.
After 11 years of self-producing through co-creation and collaborative leadership, Stuart offers an alternative to the traditional coaching session.
Using mentoring and creative coaching practices, Stuart supports artists, producers, and creative leaders to refine, articulate, and develop their projects — particularly for Arts Council England funding applications and independently-led creative work.
These sessions create space for reflection, clarity, care and sustainable ways of working through body doubling and / or being an accountability buddy.
This approach has been especially supportive for leaders who identify as neurodivergent, offering flexible and responsive ways to think through ideas, process applications and shape projects in ways that feel accessible and manageable.
Care-Centred Project Development
Stuart’s coaching practice has also been invited into projects to support leaders and teams to reflect on what care may look like within their working processes.
Sessions can focus on:
- Designing care and access into projects from the outset.
- Embedding access provision into funding applications and delivery plans.
- Building realistic and supportive budgets.
- Reflecting on sustainable leadership and collaborative working.
- Developing communication and working practices that support the whole team.
This work centres the understanding that access and care are not additions to a project but integral to how creative work is imagined, produced and experienced.
Inclusion and Access
In line with the principles of Arts Council England around diversity and inclusion, this creates the opportunity for a disabled-led, freelance practitioner to join your team to support the design of care and access provision across the project.
Stuart’s Access Rider forms part of the planning and conversation process, supporting open discussion around working practices, communication and access needs.
Access is good for everyone.
Get in touch
To discuss your project, access requirements, or budgets, please email Stuart.
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