Training Opportunities

These training opportunities are open to creative practitioners and members of the Culture Aberdeen Network. All workshops will be held at Station House Media Unit (SHMU) unless stated otherwise. 

 

May 2024

12 May 2024

Fundraising for Creative Individuals

10 – 4pm

Simon Gall has devised, secured funding for, and delivered numerous cultural projects and programmes. He has also worked as a funding assessor and panellist for national and local cultural funders such as Creative Scotland, Aberdeen City Council, and Dundee City Council.

15 May 2024
Mental health First Aid training
10 – 4 pm
 
This two day course will give staff insight into:
  • Attitudes to mental health issues
  • The impact of alcohol and drugs on mental health
  • Suicide prevention and the importance of good listening skills
  • Understanding depression and how to offer mental health first aid to someone experiencing depression
  • Understanding anxiety and how to offer first aid to someone experiencing anxiety
  • Understanding psychosis and how to offer first aid to someone experiencing a psychotic episode

The course does not train people to be mental health workers. It offers basic general information about mental health problems. The knowledge and understanding presented in the course helps to remove stigma, fear and encourages confidence in staff when approaching a person in distress.

June 2024

Monday 10 June
Neurodivergent Inclusion & Access with Max Alexander
10 am – 3 pm

Max Alexander is an artist, play worker and thinker. Max’s work centres play and connection with a particular focus on autistic, neurodivergent and disabled experiences. Max creates spaces for play using a mix of his skills as a maker, visual artist, writer, facilitator, communicator and play worker. These spaces might be short quiet pockets of time shared between just two people in a living room, in a park under some trees or in a nondescript room in a day centre playing with strange sounds, exploring tactile sensations, or engaging in slapstick repetitive imaginative play. They might be bigger installations with playable sculptures, dens, big bodily movement and raucous ever evolving games. They will often exist somewhere in between, but regardless of scale, time and who is in the room they tend to hold space for silliness and sincerity in equal regard.

Friday 21 June
 
Self-care for Creatives with Lynn Shaw on
10 am – 4 pm

Building on her session from our November sharing event, Lynn will expand on Staying healthy – mind and body for creatives, as they develop their work and practice. 

More information: https://curioussoul.co.uk/programs/special-events-zllsb