Action Learning North Essex
A new set will run from Easter 2016
Recruiting new members now
Contact me for details here  if you would like to join us.

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Action Learning Programme
Action Learning provides individuals with a challenging, confidential space for reflective learning.

Anita Belli is an accredited Action Learning Facilitator offering creative focussed Action Learning Sets to develop creativity through personal and professional development. Working mostly with women in the creative industries, we focus on career development within the Arts, and Organisational Development for Arts Organisations large or small. . 

General Introduction to Action Learning
A group of 6 – 8 people working at comparable levels of responsibility,
meet regularly for a contracted number of meetings, usually 5 or 6.
Meetings can be a whole days and should take place on average every 2 months, or monthly if the members can only manage to meet for half days. This 
commitment is agreed at the outset.

What Action Learning offers
Support and challenge from peers
Develop a reflective learning practice for yourself and your work
The opportunity to apply different techniques to  work situations
Development of individual listening and diagnostic skills
Time for problem solving which gives the opportunity for personal learning and
development and insight into how others achieve different solutions
A confidential environment to explore strengths and weaknesses
A group of people who are, for periods of time, mentors for each other
Learn to challenge assumptions and deepen fundamental understanding of what might be done differently

What happens at each meeting
Every set member reports briefly on what has been happening to them
Set members decide who is going to present a particular situation which they currently face.
The presenter describes their situation / problem / challenge.
The set members ask questions designed to assist the presenter come to a deeper or different understanding and so to be open to new solutions attitudes and behaviour changes.
The other set members do not give advice, tell anecdotes, pass judgement or talk about how it compares to their own situation.
The set assists the presenter to review options and decide actions
The set members reflect on the group process, give feedback to the presenter on what they have heard and talk about their own individual learning.
At a future set meeting, the presenter reports on action taken. 

Action Learning Set Contract
Meetings:
One day every 2 months. This makes an Initial annual contract of  6 days
The facilitator will sign up members who wish to join the set and circulate membership prior to contracts in order to avoid conflict of interest among membership.
Once the group is established, new members are introduced only after prior consultation with the set
A member deciding to leave the set to let us know in advance so that the process of 'leave taking’ may be valuable to all members
The contract will be reviewed at the end of the initial set period 

Anita Belli Biography
Writer, writing coach and Action Learning Facilitator
I trained as an Action Learning Facilitator during my role as a Creative
Director with the Creative Partnerships Programme. Being a member of a ‘set’
enabled me to experience the value of this method of Professional Development
and by training as a Facilitator, I was able to further develop the listening, analysis, focus and reflection skills which are so much a part of our daily work in Arts Management.
What I bring uniquely is a focus on Creativity for personal and professional development as well as Coaching skills.

I have enjoyed an (almost) 30 year career supporting and enabling artists to develop and work in the Arts.  Following my first degree in Drama at Hull University’s Gulbenkian Theatre, I trained as a Dancer at The Place and subsequently at the London International Film School which led me to develop the first Dance For Camera Masters Degree in Europe at The Place, working closely with the BBC,  Arts Council and The British Council to develop film training for choreographers to ensure that Dance had a lively presence on our screens.  (Or in the 90’s, any presence at all.)

I won awards as a filmmaker and writer and subsequently became Director of Signals Media in Colchester and then Creative Partnerships; with the aim to give all young people the opportunity to develop their best self through creative learning. 

Since Creative Partnerships, I took a mid life gap year to focus on my own creative practice, which has, over the years, always returned to writing.  I have been writing since I was at primary school and the Manchester Evening News published my stories and poems on its children’s page. I am now a certified compulsive writer and developing programmes to support other people into addiction, especially around their third age.

Ros Daniels

How much will it cost?
To join an Action Learning set requires a commitment for a fixed number of sessions.
One year of action learning, usually 6 sessions, costs from £250.
All sessions will be one whole day and include lunch. Concessions are available for self employed.
Contact me here to sign up