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Sustaining a Creative Career | February 2025

Start DateDurationCostMax Participant Numbers
Monday 10th February1 day in-person workshop plus the option of subsidised career coaching after the workshop€10012

Overview

The creative sector is both rich with opportunity and famously unpredictable. It can be challenging for creatives to sustain momentum or imagine new possibilities amidst the shifting demands of the industry. This workshop is designed for those who are curious about the latest thinking & research in career development for creatives and how it can be applied to their own — whether that’s broadening their horizons within the creative world or finding ways to make their current path more fulfilling and secure

This one-day, in-person training is designed for creative professionals seeking to enhance their career resilience and adaptability. The program offers practical tools and strategies to navigate the evolving creative industry, aiming at professional satisfaction and personal fulfillment. Through reflective exercises, interactive sessions, and collaborative activities, participants will explore personal strengths, identify career resources, set actionable goals, and develop a strengths-based approach to career growth.

The training also addresses adaptability, challenges negative career thinking, and leverages networks and transferable skills. Post-training, participants can access one-on-one career coaching for personalized support.

Join us for an explorative day dedicated to sustaining and enhancing your creative career.’

After the workshop participants can avail of subsidised career coaching with Andrew Macklin.

In this thoughtful and engaging day of learning, you’ll:

  • Explore Your Strengths: Take time to reflect on your unique abilities and how they
  • can shape the next chapter of your career.
  • Gain Practical Tools: Learn strategies to build resilience, foster adaptability, and
  • navigate transitions with purpose.
  • Reframe Challenges: Address unhelpful thinking and consider how obstacles
  • might open up unexpected opportunities.
  • Clarify Your Goals: Identify what truly matters to you and develop a plan to align
  • your professional life with your personal values.
  • Build on What You Have: Discover how your network and transferable skills can
  • support your ambitions and create new possibilities.

Learning outcomes

  • Understand the need for adaptability in modern creative careers
  • Identify the unique personal themes, skills and interests that inform
  • personally fulfilling career decision-making
  • Understand the elements of work needed for long term subjective
  • well-being
  • Develop a strengths-based approach to career development
  • Identify individual career resources and capitol
  • Explore a wide variety of future possible work-selves
  • Identify transferable skills
  • Developing long and short term career goals
  • Challenging negative career thinking
  • Mapping personal networks to support career goals
  • Know how to shift into new areas of work
  • ● Support career development through a solution-focused approach

Participant profile/Who can apply/Eligibility

This workshop is suitable for people working, or wishing to work, in the creative industries who want to create a sustainable career that fits in with their goals and ambitions.

Due to our funding, this course is only available to those resident in the Republic Of Ireland.
For any queries, please contact frankeaveney@furthr.ie

Tutor information

Andrew Macklin is a career practitioner, actor and trainer who is passionate about supporting creatives to develop more sustainable & fulfilling careers. An ICF credentialed career coach and founder of Boundless Careers he works with universities, charities and arts organisations to deliver bespoke career training for creatives. He has studied Career Management, Counselling and Coaching at Birkbeck University, London and is a member of the Career Development Institute (UK).  As an actor Andrew’s career spans over two decades of stage and screen work with companies such as the Abbey Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company and Old Vic Theatre. On screen he has worked on productions for RTE, BBC, ITV, Ch5 and FX.  As a career coach he works regularly with Minding Creative Minds in Ireland and Wellbeing in the Arts in the UK to support creatives from every part of the sector with their career development.

Venue/location

In-person in Dublin.

Costs/fee

Course fee €100 per person (Normally €180 without CCIS support)

Deadline for course registration and payment

Thursday 4th February by 12noon or before if all 12 places are booked

Dates and times of the course

Monday 10th February, 10.00 to 17.00

If all places have been filled please complete this WAITING LIST FORM and we will contact you if a place becomes available or we run this course again in the near future.

  • Enrollment has closed because the maximum number of allowed students has been reached.
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