What is this professional development course about?
Our Professional Development course offers a structured, flexible learning experience designed to enhance the skills of community artists and arts administrators. Participants will engage in weekly recorded learning modules and live virtual discussions led by Phoenix Sun-Park, Founder of Voice of Purpose.
With a time commitment of 4 hours per week, this course provides both independent learning and collaborative cohort discussions.
Key outcomes include:
– Personal purpose development
– Culturally inclusive, relevant, and competent community engagement
– Curriculum building (lesson planning, facilitation)
– Entrepreneurial skills (partnerships, grants, financial management)
– Non-Profit Arts Sector knowledge (sector structures and dynamics)
– Holistic embodied healing and well being practices
– Conflict management and transformation skills
– Strategic change management and future building
– Power, Equity, Liberation
Who would benefit from taking this course?
We invite Artist-Educators and Arts Administrators across North America committed to equity, inclusion, and transformative arts education to join our virtual Professional Development course. As a community arts leader, your voice matters in driving change. Gain access to a cross-continental network of trailblazing leaders and peers.
This course, capped at 100 participants, is for Teaching Artists and Arts Administrators who want to:
– Work meaningfully within historically marginalized communities
– Engage cross-culturally with respect and integrity
– Expand their practice through teaching, mentoring, and collaboration
– Learn to design and implement more purposeful, engaging and impactful collaborations
– Deepen their impact and leadership
– Ground in their purpose
– Embody co-liberation
What is the unmet need this course program addresses?
This program offers personal transformation, helping participants align their personal purpose with their professional work. It also addresses the need for community arts practitioners to develop deeper, culturally respectful, and socially transformative methods for engaging communities through art. Many frontline artists and arts workers lack the frameworks to design and implement arts programs that truly embody purpose, equity, and systemic change, especially when working in historically marginalized communities. This course aims to fill that gap by providing the tools to do so with integrity.
What are the other benefits in addition to skill building?
In addition to skill building, the course provides access to a supportive network of like-minded professionals across North America, facilitating collaboration and shared learning among a community of trailblazing leaders in the arts. Finally, it helps participants integrate strategic change management into their practice, equipping them to create more impactful and sustainable arts programs.
Why is VOP the right group to deliver this program?
Voice of Purpose (VOP) is deeply rooted in the transformative arts sector, with a mission focused on aligning purpose with action to create systemic social impact. Our proven frameworks and pedagogy, such as the Journey of Transformation and Purpose Rooted Arts Education (PRAE), are specifically designed to equip arts practitioners with the tools to effect real change in their communities.
Our founder Phoenix Sun Park, with her extensive experience in community arts engagement, systems thinking, and personal healing, offers a unique blend of leadership and insight. Her expertise in culturally diverse collaborations, along with her deep and extensive understanding of both community arts, personal transformation and embodied healing, makes her ideally positioned to lead this program.
What is the cost of this program?
We are offering this pilot run of the program at a sliding scale, with full scholarships also available. Please visit this page for detailed information.
Thank you to Canada Council for the Arts for the ability to make this program financially accessible.
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APPLICATIONS FOR THIS COURSE ARE OPEN JANUARY 1-31, 2025!
