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
Implementation at our Art Centre in Vrygrond
Term 1
Child Case Study Hubs
18-Feb Wednesday 12h00 - 13h30
(Online), facilitator: Eunice
4-Mar Wednesday 18h30 - 20h00
(Online), facilitator: Phumzile
Artist Hubs
7-Feb Saturday 10h00 - 12h00 (Online), facilitator: Charlene
25-Feb Wednesday 18h30 -20h00 (Online), facilitator: Madge
14-Mar Saturday 10h00 - 12h00 (Online), facilitator: Charlene
19-Mar Thursday 11h00 - 12h30 (Online), facilitator: Bonnie
22-Mar Sunday 9h30 - 12h00 (Montebello), facilitator: Charlene
27-Mar Friday 9h30 - 11h00 (Art Centre, Vrygrond - ACV), facilitator: Gardie
Term 2
Child Case Study Hubs
1-Apr Wednesday 18h30 - 20h00 (Online), facilitator: Eunice
22-Apr Wednesday 12h30 - 14h00 (Online), facilitator: Madge
8-May Friday 9h30 - 11h00 (ACV), facilitator: Madge
13-May Wednesday 18h30 - 20h00
(Online), facilitator: Nonhlanhla
3-Jun Wednesday 18h30 - 20h00
(Online), facilitator: Eunice
22-Jun Monday 11h00 - 12h30 - EB Mentoring (Online), facilitator: Phumzile
24-Jun Wednesday 9h30 - 11h00 (ACV), facilitator: Cleone
Artist Hubs
11-Apr Saturday 10h00 - 12h00 (Online), facilitator: Charlene
24-Apr Friday 9h15 - 10h45 (ACV), facilitator: Gardie
8-May Friday 12h00 - 13h30 (ACV), facilitator: Cleone
9-May Saturday 10h00 - 12h00 (Online), facilitator: Charlene
27-May Wednesday 10h00 - 15h00 - CAF EXCURSION, (TBC), facilitator: Gardie
17-Jun Wednesday 18h00 - 20h30 (Online), facilitator: Madge
24-Jun Wednesday 12h00 - 13h30 (ACV), facilitator: Courtney
28-Jun Sunday 9h30 - 12h00 (Montebello), facilitator: Charlene
Term 3
Child Case Study Hubs
1-Jul Wednesday 18h30 - 20h00 (Online), facilitator: Eunice
15-Jul Wednesday 9h30 - 11h00 (ACV), facilitator: Cleone
28-Jul Tuesday 12h00 - 13h30 (Online), facilitator: Bonnie
5-Aug Wednesday 18h30 - 20h00
(Online), facilitator: Madge
26-Aug Wednesday 12h00 - 13h30
(Online), facilitator: Phumzile
2-Sep Wednesday 18h30 - 20h00
(Online), facilitator: Phumzile
16-Sep Wednesday 12h00 - 13h30
(Online), facilitator: Nonhlahla
21-Sep Monday 9h30 - 11h00 (ACV), facilitator: Eunice
Artist Hubs
15-Jul Wednesday 12h00 - 13h30 (ACV), facilitator: Courtney
22-Jul Wednesday 12h00 - 13h30 (Online), facilitator: Zaid
1-Aug Saturday 10h00 - 12h00
(Online), facilitator: Charlene
19-Aug Wednesday 10h00 - 12h00
(TBC), facilitator: Gardie
25-Aug Tuesday 11h00 - 12h30
(Online), facilitator: Zaid
9-Sep Wednesday 18h30 - 20h00
(Online), facilitator: Madge
21-Sep Monday 12h00 - 13h30
(ACV), facilitator: Cleone
23-Sep Wednesday 11h00 - 12h30
(Online), facilitator: Phumzile
27-Sep Sunday 9h30 - 12h00
(Montebello), facilitator: Charlene
Term 4
Child Case Study Hub
17-Oct Saturday 10h00 - 12h00 (Online), facilitator: Charlene
21-Oct Wednesday 11h00 - 12h30 (Online), facilitator: Zaid
28-Oct Wednesday 18h30 - 20h00 (Online), facilitator: Madge
7-Nov Saturday 10h00 - 12h00
(Online), facilitator: Charlene
6-Dec Sunday 9h30 - 12h00
(Montebello), facilitator: Charlene
Artist Hub
7-Oct Wednesday 12h00 - 13h30
(Online), facilitator: Eunice
4-Nov Wednesday 18h30 - 20h00
(Online), facilitator: Madge
25-Nov Wednesday 12h00 - 13h30
(Online), facilitator: Phumzile
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
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.
Artist 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
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.
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.