Mindset Transitions is a ten-week group coaching and artistic self-development programme. On this page, you will find full course information. The focus of the programme is to understand your artistic mindset more deeply bringing about creative shifts and growth in your art and art practice. There will be two groups running across different timezones, so whether you are on the West coast of the USA or Canada, in the UK or Europe, Japan or Australia there will be a time that can work for you.
The next course is autumn 2023 express your interest by joining the waiting list. I’ll be sharing updates on the programme, feedback from this year’s delegates and there will be some bonus material too.
Why Mindset?
Artistic skill, practice and mindset are three core elements of being an artist. As we grow from the place of being a novice or beginner artist, acquiring skills and knowledge along the way, we can reach a point where we realise that the next step in shifting up a gear in our art is not about learning more skills, but about addressing our creative mindset. Mindset is important for artists because once we have the skills to do something often the only thing getting in the way of us doing those things can be limiting self-beliefs and creative blocks. Knowing our own process is one of the keys to finding our authentic voice as an artist. Growing our awareness and understanding of ourselves as artists increases our options for development and change in our art. You can experience a taster of the course and my teaching here from a recent Instagram Live followed up with a short blog post and a free download called How to be your Own Best Advocate for Your Art
Mindset Transitions is a programme developed to help artists make this development. It is a 10-week programme of self-development using a mixture of experiential exercises, teaching, group coaching and discussion to build self-awareness and understanding of yourself as an artist. An online programme, all the teaching is delivered live, a key element of the learning happens within a small group experience through discussion, group learning and coaching sessions.
What’s Included?
- A weekly two and a half-hour group session over Zoom on a Monday morning or a Tuesday evening
- a programme that is structured to build your understanding of yourself, step by step
- designed by a practising and exhibiting artist, qualified teacher, group leader and qualified psychological professional.
- Each session is recorded and uploaded to the website for later viewing
- a dedicated web portal with access to teaching materials and video recordings up to the 1st March 2023
- a full list of any materials needed for the course
- a variety of teaching methods including group and individual exercises, and group coaching and discussions.
- maximum group size of 10 people to encourage interaction, getting to know each other and one on one feedback from me
- a free one hour one to one session with Lin bookable during and after the programme up until the 1st March 2023.
- a private Facebook community for sharing images, support during the course and keeping in touch afterwards.
- NEW Three Bonus Group Coaching sessions of one and half hours each in Week Three, Six and Nine.
More Information Before You Decide?
See Lin’s taster teach on Personality Styles for Artists from Instagram here.
See Lin’s blog post and live teach from Instagram on strokes here: How to be Your own Best Advocate for Your Art
Read more about how I think about teaching and learning: Integration and Authenticity
Comments from delegates on previous courses.
The 10 Week Programme
| Week Number | Topic | Outline |
|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | Saying Hello | Establishing the group and how we are going to work together. Setting individual goals for the programme |
| Week 2 | How do you learn? | Transformational learning and art. |
| Week 3 | Mentalising for artists. | Noticing, reflecting and understanding our process |
| Week 4 | A never-ending painting. | Understanding attachment and letting go. Exploration of non-attachment as a useful process and mindset attribute in art. |
| Week 5 | Your Creative Life Story | Using concepts of life script and strokes to understand patterns of success, fear, resistance and procrastination in art-making. |
| Week off | Rest week | |
| Week 6 | Finding your Internal image-maker. | Understanding your authentic voice in image-making. |
| Week 7 | Who is the Inner Critic | Using concepts from transactional analysis to understand and work with your critical inner voice. |
| Week 8 | Revisiting the never-ending painting. | Integrating learning so far. |
| Week 9 | Personality Styles | Perfectionism, struggling, rushing and hurrying, pleasing others, ignoring our feelings. |
| Week 10 | Endings and saying goodbye. | Review learning from the course. Review goals setting. What next? |
Cost and Terms
The cost for the programme in 2023 will be £350.00 (fee is charged in GB pounds). Click here for a currency converter.
A deposit of £100 secures your place on the course.
Cancellation Policy:
You can cancel with a 100% refund up to 10 days before the start of the programme, thereafter a no refund policy applies. Lin Cheung reserves to right to cancel or reschedule the programme if there are less than 6 delegates. You will have the option to request a full refund or transfer your booking to the next available date.
Confidentiality:
Teaching and coaching sessions are recorded using Zoom. As this means that group members may be recorded all video teaching and training material on this programme is confidential to the registered members of the course. It may not be shared or accessed by anyone not registered for the programme.
Copyright:
All written, visual and video material on this programme are the intellectual property of Lin Cheung and may not be distributed or reproduced for commercial use without prior permission.