When was the last time that you gave yourself the time and space to reflect upon your own professional development?

This one-to-one service provides you with the opportunity to look at your current situation in a systematic way with the benefit of an outside eye. It also gives you access to information about training and continuing professional development opportunities within the arts.

PDP (Practice Development Planning) sessions last at least one hour, up to two hours, which cost £10 payable in advance. *All sessions are now booked up for the summer. The scheme will reopen for booking in September 2009.*

The sessions are confidential and are an opportunity to think in broad, holistic terms about your creative and professional development with an impartial guide.  During this session you will have an opportunity to:

• Discuss what you’d like to achieve and when
• Explore what motivates you
• Look at existing skills/strengths and identify areas you wish to develop
• Consider resources that could help you to achieve your goals
• Identify possible obstacles and explore strategies to overcome them
• Begin to create a plan of action to achieve your goals

The session is designed to enable you to plan your future development and therefore isn’t about giving your critical feedback on your work or providing specific information and advice, although we may be able to help direct you to where you can find out more information.

Quotes from practitioners that have undertaken a practice development planning session;

Confidence was an important factor that I was hoping to gain.  The opportunity to talk and hear myself was invaluable.

I felt that there are opportunities out there and networks of people doing what I’d like to be doing.

Before the first session I felt stuck, although I was selling some work, it was not work I really wanted to do.  I am more confident now that, by ‘risk-taking’, I will be both fulfilled in the work I’m making and able to find a market for it.


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