Getting connected: making your mentorship work

This is the handbook for you if you are seeking or planning a mentorship in the arts industry - either as a mentoree or mentor.

Whether you are an emerging artist, or at a career crossroads and looking for a nudge, or even a shove in the right direction, or a savvy veteran with a load of hard won experience and industry insight to impart, or an arts organisation keen to set up quality development programs - you need to start by getting connected.

This comprehensive guide to mentorships offers:

• best practice guidelines
• an industry overview and
• solid advice on everything from choosing the model that best suits you, to tracking down resources, mentorship maintenance, the pitfalls to avoid and the benefits to enjoy.

Getting connected is part of the Australia Council for the Arts' trilogy of publications for young people, all of which are available from this website:

• Getting connected: making your mentorship work
• H2W2: how to do an arts project, where to get help
• Young people and the arts policy

Contents

• What is mentoring?
• Benefits of mentoring
• Effective mentoring
• Stages in the mentoring relationship
• Pitfalls of mentoring partnerships
• Mentoring in the arts industry in Australia
• How arts organisations are doing it
• How individuals are doing it
• Directory of mentoring programs in Australian arts organisations