We used the session to understand first-hand from the collective what we needed from our final session on 16 March and to learn more about one participant’s application to an Arts Climate Acceleration Programme off the back of their Christmas homework.
Our session focused on the roles we can play to support or build projects or change. We used a metaphor of the scaffold to draw out and better understand the roles different people in the Collective naturally lean into – some people have ideas they want to run with, some want to support.
One of the group reassured a newer member of the collective who was feeling like he was ‘catching up’, with how she felt entering the space in June and that the space we have created is – safe and supportive – one that cultivates personal meaning leaving the professional worries of the day aside, helping to feel uplifted by the conversations.
One of the group shared an extract from the work of Céline Condorelli, from Support Structures by Céline Condorelli, Gavin Wade, and James Langdon:
“Everything starts from this intuition: that what I define as support structures can release potential, and that support is not to be reduced to a reactive, symptomatic, and redeeming gesture, but through its uttering we may be able to hear the unspoken, the unsatisfied, the late and the latent, the in-process, the pre-thought, the not-yet manifest, the undeveloped, the unrecognised, the delayed, the unanswered, the unavailable, the not-deliverable, the discarded, the over-looked, the neglected, the hidden, the forgotten, the un-named, the unpaid, the missing, the longing, the invisible, the unseen, the behind-the-scene, the disappeared, the concealed, the unwanted, the dormant.”