Cream notebook

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CREA.M project has been funded with the support of the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Union.

Besides blank pages where you can write and draw ideas and feelings, here you will find some special spaces structured on the basis of the mentoring practices designed and tested during the CREA.M project.

Modelling and mapping tools will guide and support you through an evaluation of yourself, your professional profile and style of work. At certain points you will also read some quotations to inspire your personal and professional development - they have been selected by CREA.M mentors, mentees and researchers.

Try our creative exercises to see things in a different way!

Get inspired!

And enjoy!

Fill in your “skills shelves� by listing your skills, competencies and attributes. Write them on the labels. The challenge is to complete them all!

Think about EVERYTHING you are good at, not just work.

Surely you have more skills hidden in all the things you do, keep on mapping them!

Try to break these down into specific skills - remember small can be powerful!

Now that all your skills are on the shelves, which ones do you use in the perfect recipe for your professional fulfilment? Are you missing any ingredient/skill? How could you gain it?

Wri te in

the pot!

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”

“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to” said the Cat. “I don’t much care where –” said Alice.

“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go” said the Cat. Lewis Carroll “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”

Write down a job advertisement for a position you would like to achieve.

Reflect upon the jars you need to take from the skills shelves to prepare for the interview. Does this list match what is in your CV?

Take time to evaluate the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats involved in a plan, in a project or a task.

TIP: list the internal qualities of your project.

Enhance them!

aximise ts you could m . ec sp a ve ti si o ls p a t TIP: write wh a al context to reach your go rn te ex e th from the box!

Think outside

eak points: k about the w ted by the strong ones? in th w o n : IP T be compensa how can they turn them into strengths?

How can you

TIP: list the exte could threaten rnal factors th at yo Try and turn themur plan. into opportunit ies!

“The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious.

The desire to reach hearts is wise.�

Maya Angelou

Value:

the importance, worth or satisfaction you receive in the work that you create, or, the principles and standards that you work to.

Money: the income you receive, or in this exercise hope to receive for the work that you create.

Use the graph on the next page and place yourself at the point you are now at for Value and Money. Can you reflect on how you got here and how this makes you feel?

Experiment by placing yourself in different places on the graph, with differing levels of both increased and decreased Value and Money how does each placement make you feel?

Now place yourself at your ideal personal balance of both Value and Money - this is where you are aiming to be in your future.

Can you think of developing an action plan to get you there?

Money

Meaning/Values

“When I look at myself, I have to commend.�

Old Russian fairytale

Do you really know your sector?

Are you connected with its main players and organisations?

Draw yourself in the thick frame at the centre.

Now connect your picture to the other frames where you will insert symbols for all the contacts you need in your business.

Use both pages and: one colour for the existing connections another colour for the new ones.

How can you reach the new connections?

that’s me!

“If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.�

Ken Robinson

Think about all of your weekly activities and break them down into the things that you do to reach your goals in terms of: improving your skills, managing your finances, building your profile and enlarging your networks. Write on each arrow heading to the right icon and add more arrows where needed.

Skills

Finance

Take a close look at your grid, are the areas equally balanced?

Are you placing more attention on one area than the others?

What can you do to keep all these areas in balance?

Networks

Profile

“I am not so interested in how they move as in what moves them.�

Pina Bausch

“Not all those who wander are lost.�

J. R. R. Tolkien

DRAW YOUR SELF NOW

Time

People

Finance

Resources

Long is the road to reach the goals that will accomplish your new self... Is it really?

Monitor it, not just in terms of time but also considering the relations, money and tools you will need step by step.

Draw or stick post-its that will build the wide road taking your present self to the new one.

Revise it once in a while and adjust it when necessary!

DRAW YOUR NEW SELF

“Ever tried, ever failed, no matter.

Try again, fail again.

Fail better.�

Samuel Beckett

Highly risk taking When it comes to your professional life, are you as risk taking as this man?

Where do you stand on that line?

Time to reflect on the reason of your choice: Write down your thoughts, this place is risk free!

Where do you stand now?

In what direction would you move?

Extremely risk adverse

“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.�

Kurt Vonnegut

“One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.�

Henry Miller

Your inspiring movies

books List of interesting

Theatre plays and art exhibitions you loved Stick the tickets here!

Have you read an interesting newspaper article?

Cut it out and stick it here!

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“Trust in yourself and you can achieve anything.�

Lisa Simpson

Give an award to... yourself!

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Think about the 3 most influential and important people in your professional growth and career.

Draw them on the podium. How did they get there? What were their paths?

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.�

Benjamin Franklin

“Never Stop.

One always stops as soon as something is about to happen�.

Peter Brook

“The most important thing is to find out what is the most important thing.�

Shunryu Suzuki

HOW TO PRIORITISE YOUR TASKS Save time in time management!

Consider all your tasks.

Ask yourself: first, is the task important? Second, is it urgent?

According to the answers you gave, put each in the right box.

IMPORTANT NOT URGENT

NOT URGENT AND NOT IMPORTANT

URGENT AND IMPORTANT

URGENT AND NOT IMPORTANT

“Problems do not exist, everything is a challenge.”

Mentoring is…

• Sharing knowledge • Giving/encouraging self-confidence • Unleashing hidden features • Initiating fresh perspectives • Forwarding tacit knowledge • Sharing and supporting

CREA.M Creative Blended Mentoring for Cultural Managers was implemented by:

Project Leader Istituto Luigi Sturzo, Italy www.sturzo.it

Finnish Museums Association, Finland www.museoliitto.fi

Project Partners: University of Deusto, Institute of Leisure Studies, Spain www.ocio.deusto.es

Goldsmiths, University of London, Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship, United Kingdom www.gold.ac.uk/icce

ENCATC, Belgium www.encatc.org

Roma Tre University, Italy www.uniroma3.it

Denizli Special Provincial Administration, Turkey www.dioi.gov.tr

RPIC-ViP s.r.o., Czech Republic www.rpic-vip.cz

www.projectcream.eu

CREA.M project 518533-LLP-1-2011-1-ITLEONARDO-LMP has been funded with support from the European Commission.

This notebook reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

The mentoring and modelling techniques inspiring the structure of some pages have been developed by The Creative Pioneer Programme at NESTA and ICCE, Goldsmiths.

The Money Meaning priority modelling technique has been developed by Erich PÜetschacher and was used and iterated by Nesta’s Creative Pioneer Programme and with his permission at ICCE, Goldsmiths.

They were all shared, discussed and tested amongst the CREA.M partners during several phases of the project.

Thanks to Designers Block for their development of the initial Prioritisation tool.

Graphic design by Daniela Bassi.

All the photos in the booklet are under Creative Commons license. We thank from flickr.com: Jakob Scoobay, Pieter Pieterse, Melissa Doroquez, Scoobay, State Library Queensland, The Library of Congress, San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives, National Library of Australia, Gomattolson, Nadia Blagorodnova, The U.S. National Archives, The Laird of Oldham; from Wikimedia Commons: Viktorvoigt

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