Mentoring is a relationship designed to build confidence so that mentees are able to take control of their own development and work.
Support for a mentee can include: advice on career development, offering different perspectives, providing insight into work and career, structuring goals and direction, understanding a situation, being a critical friend, acting as a sounding board, and encouraging self-reflection. A mentor and mentee relationship is unique to those individuals involved and can be broad in focus, but will have clear mechanisms in place to support giving feedback and embedding learning.
Catherine has been invaluable in my progress professionally and personally and I've come on so far in the short amount of time we've been working together. It has never felt like a mentoring or a coaching session, it always feels like a conversation, a catch up with a friend. She asks all the right questions in a way that never creates pressure or puts you on the spot.
Rendered Retina Theatre Company
The Process
Bright Culture consultants are experienced in providing mentoring and critical friend support for people in various roles with differing needs. We can work with people one-on-one or support a team in their development. But the approach remains the same: we seek to understand the person or team’s objectives and what they want to achieve through the mentoring relationship and understand the skills, culture, and resources at their disposal, with an approach that is warm, supportive, and encouraging.
We support people working in the heritage and arts sector, offering expertise and guidance in evaluation, strategic planning, creative community engagement, volunteering, NLHF funding applications, audience consultation & development. Mentoring and critical friend support can be provided for one-off pieces of work or specific challenges or as a relationship that is developed over a period of time
As a team, we offer various skills and expertise across these areas and have experienced in mentoring churches, small museums, and heritage and arts organisations. Lisa, Esther, and Catherine are all on the National Heritage Lottery Fund’s register of specialist suppliers (RoSS) as public engagement with heritage specialists; and are appointed by NLHF to provide mentoring and monitoring support to projects. Catherine is also a qualified Coach and action-learning facilitator.
Please get in touch if you would like to explore how we can tailor support for you in your professional development.
Details
Free initial chat
If you would like to explore how Mentoring could help you or your team, then please get in touch to set up a free initial 30-minute call to discuss.
Location
Mentoring can take place via audio or video call or in person.
Pricing
Mentoring for individuals: starts at £85 for a 60 mins session.