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 (Tuesdays)
13-Feb 18:00 - 19:30 Eunice
27-Feb 18:00 - 19:30 Eunice
12-Mar 18:00 - 19:30 Eunice
26-Mar 18:00 - 19:30 Eunice
Artist Hubs
(Saturdays)
10-Feb 10:00 - 12:00 Charlene
24-Feb 10:00 - 12:00 Charlene
9-Mar 10:00 - 12:00 Charlene
Artist Hubs
(Wednesdays)
28-Feb 18:30 - 20:30 Naz
13-Mar 18:30 - 20:30 Naz
27-Mar 18:30 - 20:30 Naz
Term 2
Child Case Study Hubs (Tuesdays)
9-Apr 18:00 - 19:30
23-Apr 18:00 - 19:30
14-May Early Beginnings Group 1, Session 1 (Tuesday)
03-May 10:00 - 11:30 (Friday)
24-May 10:00 -11:30 (Friday)
28-May Early Beginnings Group 1, Session 2 (Tuesday)
31-May 10:00 - 11:30 (Friday)
29-May Early Beginnings JHB Group 2 Session 1 (Wednesday)
12-Jun Early Beginnings JHB Group 2, Session 2, (Wednesday)
Artist Hubs (Saturdays)
13-Apr 10:00 - 12:00 Charlene
14-May Early Beginnings Group 1, Session 1 (Tuesday)
28-May Early Beginnings Group 1, Session 2 (Tuesday)
12-Jun Early Beginnnings JHB, Group 2, Session 1 (Wednesday)
26-Jun Early Beginnings JHB Group 2, Session 2 (Wednesday)
Artist Hubs (Wednesday)
17-Apr 18:30 - 20:30
22-May 18:30 - 20:30
6-Jun 18:30 - 20:30
19-Jun 18:30 - 20:30
Term 3
Child Case Study Hubs (Tuesdays)
2-Jul 18:00 - 19:30
17-Jul 18:00 - 19:30
02-Aug 10:00 - 11:30 (Art Centre Vrygrond)
6-Aug 18:00 - 19:30
24-Aug Saturday, Early Beginnings Group 3, Session 1
7-Sep Saturday, Early Beginnings Group 3, Session 2
17-Sep 18:00 - 19:30
Artist Hubs
(Saturday)
6-Jul 10:00 - 12:00
20-Jul 10:00 - 12:00
Artist Hub (Wednesdays)
10-Jul 18:30 - 20:00
7-Aug 18:30 - 20:00
21-Aug 18:30 - 20:00
Term 4
Child Case Study Hubs (Tuesdays)
1-Oct 18:00 - 19:30
Art Centre Vrygrond based Artist Hubs
29-Jan 12-Apr. 5-Jul
16-Feb. 30-Apr. 11-Oct
19-Feb. 30-May. 29-Nov
14-Mar
Child Case Study Hub
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.
Artist Hub
Weekly creative sessions with a qualified 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.
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
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.
Michaelmas Conference
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.