Mentoring programme
Through mentoring, BAP-trained Community Art Facilitators (CAFs) deepen their understanding of art therapeutic principles and strengthen their skills in facilitating healing through art and offering psycho-social support to traumatised children and youth.
Mentoring Engagements
Artist Hubs
Child Case Study Hubs
Internships at our Art Centre in Vrygrond
Term 1
Child Case Study Hubs
25 February Tuesday 18:00 - 19:30 Facilitator: TBC Online
20 March Thursday 11:00 - 12:30 Facilitator: TBC Online (EB1.CPT1)
Artist Hubs
8 February Saturday 10:00 - 12:00 Facilitator: TBC Online
8 March Saturday 10:00 - 12:00 Facilitator: TBC Online
20 March Thursday 13:00 - 14:30 Facilitator: TBC Online (EB1.CPT1)
Term 2
Child Case Study Hubs
03 April Thursday 11:00 - 12:30 Facilitator: TBC Online (EB1.CPT2)
20 May Tuesday 18:00 - 19:30 Facilitator: TBC Online
24 June Tuesday 18:00 - 19:30 Facilitator: TBC Online
Artist Hubs
03 April Thursday 13:00 - 14:30 Facilitator: TBC Online (EB1.CPT2)
26 April Saturday 10:00 - 12:00 Facilitator:TBC Online
10 May Saturday 10:00 - 12:00 Facilitator:TBC Online
17 May Saturday 10:00 - 12:00 Facilitator:TBC Online
21 June Saturday 10:00 - 12:00 Facilitator:TBC Online
Term 3
Child Case Study Hubs
11 August Monday 11:00 - 12:30 Facilitator: TBC Online (EB2.CPT1)
18 August Monday 11:00 - 12:30 Facilitator: TBC Online (EB2.CPT2)
26 August Tuesday 11:00 - 12:30 Facilitator: TBC Online (EB3.JHB1)
9 September Tuesday 11:00 - 12:30 Facilitator: TBC Online (EB3.JHB2)
Artist Hubs
12 July Saturday 10:00 - 12:00 Facilitator:TBC Online
11 August Monday 11:00 - 12:30 Facilitator: TBC Online (EB2.CPT1)
18 August Monday 11:00 - 12:30 Facilitator: TBC Online (EB2.CPT2)
23 August Saturday 10:00 - 12:00 Facilitator:TBC Online
26 August Tuesday 11:00 - 12:30 Facilitator: TBC Online (EB3.JHB1)
9 September Tuesday 11:00 - 12:30 Facilitator: TBC Online (EB3.JHB2)
27 September Saturday 10:00 - 12:00 Facilitator:TBC Online
Term 4
Child Case Study Hubs
30 September Tuesday 18:00 - 19:30 Facilitator: TBC Online
4 November Tuesday 18:00 - 19:00 Facilitator TBC Online
Artist Hubs
25 October Saturday 10:00 - 12:00 Facilitator: TBC Online
15 November Saturday 10:00 - 12:00 Facilitator: TBC Online
These hubs help CAFs to strengthen their understanding of the application of art mediums to help children heal. In the hub, a CAF brings a child’s drawing to be analysed. The hubs help CAFs to grow skills in reading children’s drawings/artworks using Goethean observation techniques and gain insight into the kind of art support vulnerable children and youth in disadvantaged communities may need. You can also suggest art methods that can be implemented with the child presented. These hubs are offered throughout the year.
Child Case Study Hub
These predominantly take place in mentoring circles via Zoom or in person meetings at BAP venues. Mentors support CAFs with:
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Orientation in the CAF Movement
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Portfolios of Practice (POP completion)
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Implementation questions
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Difficult child cases
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Challenges around resource mobilisation
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Development of their organisations/initiatives
Mentoring Engagements
Implementation at our Art centre
At our Art Centre in Vrygrond, we have been implementing art classes with a therapeutic element for more than 10 years, we provide internship opportunities to newly trained CAFs. CAF interns work with eight experienced CAFs and co-facilitate art classes following the BAP Method to children from the local communities using a variety of art therapeutic methods. Our experienced mentors will give CAFs personal support and guidance as they learn. Through these internships, newly trained CAFs gain first-hand experience in BAP methodologies, including how to manage an art classroom according to the BAP Method and report on the effects of their work with children. These internships are also open to CAFs who have successfully completed their Portfolio of Practice (POP) and wish to deepen and strengthen their CAF Practice.
Artist Hub
Weekly creative sessions with an art facilitator who guides, mentors and assists CAFs with finding their inner artist and building their resilience through doing art. CAFs explore art mediums to be able to serve children more effectively because they better understand the nature of different mediums, their healing power, their limitations and what medium to offer for which soul challenge. This experience grows knowledge and the healer’s intuition which builds confidence to apply art therapeutic methods when teaching vulnerable and wounded children.
Michaelmas Conference
A three-day conference during which CAFs, the BAP Faculty and the BAP Team explore a contextual theme together through the writings of Rudolf Steiner and practical workshops on various art therapeutic techniques. The conference teaches skills that improve CAFs’ practice with children and youth.
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