Cross-Sector Collaboration Skills for Creatives and Cultural Practitioners

Finding the right partner, describing your work in a language someone from a different field can understand, and building collaborations where all sides see the value is a skill on its own.

In this workshop, Abbas and Sebastian, a designer, curator and facilitator and a former physicist turned facilitator and leadership coach,  use their own ongoing collaboration as a live case study. Two people from genuinely different disciplines working together: What it takes, where it gets uncomfortable, and what makes it worth it.

Over two hours, participants will:

Map their own practice through a disciplinary lens:  What discipline are you actually in, and what are its boundaries?

Spot the overlaps: Where does your practice create value for people outside it, and where do your values and theirs actually align?

Translate their practice: Find a language to bring outsiders into your creative process without diluting it.

Practice the collaboration itself: The practical and mental sides of working across sector lines, including role-play exercises.

Participants leave with a clear idea of how to position their practice and value proposition for cross-sector partners, and a framework that helps them map suitable collaborations where all sides benefit.

This event is organised as a part of The Lab, the cultural incubator of STPLN.

The event is in English and free of charge, and is photo documented for STPLNs communication efforts.

Register to attend and remember to unregister if you can't make it, email [email protected] if you have any questions.

STPLN will offer coffee, tea and refreshments.