Clarifying one's professional project

Are you wondering which direction to give to your artistic activity in the coming months? Do you have a project idea but you don't know how to implement it? Have you received a collaboration proposal but are hesitant to accept it? Do you feel the need to define the role that you play in your own projects more precisely? Or are you doubting your abilities to start a new activity?

Phase(s)

Pre-Production

Subject

Project formulation

Target groups

Artists, Creative and Cultural Professions

Sectors

for all sectors, photography, visual and graphic arts, music, webdesign, dance, media, performing arts

Level of experience

for all levels, Beginners, Intermediary, Experienced

Prerequisites

None

Description

This training should allow you to clarify your situation and to ease the launching or continuation of your project. It targets beginners as well as persons with more experience.

Content

Reflection on the participants' interests, values, on the role that they wish to play in their projects, their strengths and weaknesses
Have a look at your (career) path
Define your project or the further course of your (career) path

Method

Active methodology, putting the accent on the participants' inputs and giving them the possibility to exchange among peers.

Objectives

To clarify your motivations and objectives in the frame of your artistic activity
To (re-)define your role in your projects
To be aware of or recall your skills and limitations
To determine what orientation you wish to give to your (career) path

Results

To be able to launch your project or to go on effectively
To be able to explain your project to somebody.

Resources

Training script

Evaluations

Questionnaire to be filled out by the participants (paper and online versions exist)

Support material

Written exercises, Written tips, 30 pictures

Other related recommended resources

evaluation available

Duration

8 h

Participants

up to 12

Course language(s)

Français, English

Past track experience

since 2006

Trainer

Sophie Ypersiel

Personal curriculum

This Curriculum was developed with funding from the EU programme ERASMUS+ as Strategic Partnership in the field of Vocational Education and Training.

This curriculum reflects only the authors’ views; the European Commission and the ERASMUS+ national agencies are not responsible for any use that may be made of the informations it contains.

SMart is a non-profit organisation created in Belgium in 1998 which is developing itself in 8 European countries. SMart aims to simplify and support the professional paths of creative and cultural workers. Their principal goal is to help the self-employed to develop their own activities through a secure system.