Consultation

One-on-one consultation helps you develop the most effective
strengths-based arts mentoring program possible.

Whether delivered on site (yours or ours) or through internet and telephone, consultation is completely tailored to your needs, utilizing peer mentoring / modeling to ensure your success.  Suitable for an individual teacher or an organization, it’s hands-on and experiential, and can range from basic program design to in-depth organizational facets such as:

• Assessing your organization’s existing culture, including identifying strengths  and potential obstacles, (such as resistance to the new initiative) and developing strategies for building on strengths and minimizing challenges
• Designing program architecture for initiative
• Designing unified agenda, with an in-depth process for inclusion of group in decision making
• Developing infrastructure, including  communications pathways and organization-specific forms
• Ensuring compliance with legal and organizational policies
• Staff education and training to create understanding and buy-in
• Developing program support within the organization
• Ensuring inclusion of arts programming in therapeutic treatment plan, if appropriate
• Identifying staff’s artistic strengths
• Hiring teachers
• Identifying students
• Use of volunteers

Teaching program managers and directors who complete the consultation and training process may become Certified Merge Mentor Teachers.