Live training
We host a number of live online training sessions each month, giving you an opportunity to interact with our trainer directly – as well as network with other participants.
Professional Development Courses
Our programme of training courses and bespoke support harnesses the power of creativity to improve professional practice and create a better working environment for all organisations, with topics including innovation, creative wellbeing and safeguarding.
Open to anyone looking to include creativity as part of their business model and practice, our flexible offering ensures you’ll be able to find the product that works best for you or your organisation. Find out more about the different ways we can help you below.
All training is delivered by trainers with real world experience of the subject matter, ensuring that you will leave with tangible skills that can be embedded across your work.
On demand training
Our suite of on demand courses are perfect for those that want to learn in their own time. Delivered by our expert team, courses contain a mix of video content, activities and downloadable resources. If you would like to purchase a package of on demand training for your team or organisation, take a look at our Bespoke Packages section
Bespoke training
Our professional development team is expert at shaping training to meet the needs of individual teams/organisations. Bespoke training is perfect for when you want to provide training for a large number of employees, or want to focus on specific topics tailored to your organisation/industry.
‘Brilliantly delivered. Clear and concise information. Relevant, pitched right for all cross-departmentally’
- Brighton Dome
Collaborative Training Programmes
Discover specialised training programmes created in collaboration with top arts, cultural, and heritage organisations, providing custom learning solutions for industry professionals' unique demands and challenges.
Explore our collaborative training programmes
Our courses cover a wide range of topics
View our brochure for a comprehensive overview and Training & Events for upcoming courses.
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Child Protection and Safeguarding
It's best practice for organisations to offer regular and current child protection and safeguarding training for their staff. We offer a range of courses, from introductory to strategic level, with focus on digital safeguarding to safeguarding in dance and movement work, supporting you to protect the children and young people you work with as well as your staff and organisation.
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Creative Facilitation
These courses will help you develop and deliver engaging and interactive creative sessions for children and young people. You'll learn how best to encourage creative learning through a range of frameworks, and consider elements of delivery, including timing, pacing, learning styles and participant needs.
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Creative Mentoring
Effective mentors offer unbiased, vital support to young people, to nurture growth and raise aspirations. You'll learn the role of the mentor, and the necessary skills to build productive mentor-mentee relationships.
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Project Management
From helping you to identify potential funding sources for your organisation’s creative and cultural projects with young people to looking at the benefits of partnership working and evaluation models and processes, our Project Management courses are expertly designed to help you deliver successful projects.
Organisations we have worked with
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Our Trainers
Our trainers are all experienced art and cultural professionals with a wealth of knowledge and experience. To read their bios, and find out about the rest of the Artsowkr staff, click below.
APD Safeguarding Resources
These three resources are designed to give a brief overview of three safeguarding topics, all included in Artswork Professional Development’s Embedding Safeguarding Practice course.
Professional Development Newsletter
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Date Created: 4th Oct 2019
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