Individual session with a coach to support a specific moment in the artistic or literary career. The sessions provide emotional support, facilitate professional development, and help individuals achieve their aspirations.

Co-pilot is the right tutoring option if you’re looking for medium-term guidance — a co-pilot for a stretch of the journey. Co-pilot is someone who takes your hand and gives you the confidence you need to keep moving forward.

Sessions last 1 hour (the first session 1 hour and 30 minutes). It is recommended to take at least five sessions.

First session €80 (1h30) – then, €60

 

TUTORS:
SOPHIE BLAIS
Languages: English, French, Spanish, Catalan
Sophie, is a cultural manager and director at Can Serrat, she studied visual arts at the University of Strasbourg and photography at the ICART-Photo school in Paris. She completed Master’s degrees in cinematographic and photographic studies, and management + cultural mediation at the Louis Lumière University of Lyon. From 2010 to 2015, she worked concurrently as a photographer for a regional newspaper and as a mediator in the field of contemporary art, literature, and publishing. She worked for he Nicephore Niepce Museum , LUX Art Center, Les Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles, and Le Creux de l’Enfer.
Since 2015, she has been working at Can Serrat, focusing on obtaining public funding for the residency and resident artists/writers. Sophie also established collaborations with various cultural and educational programs nationally and internationally, aiming to enhance the creative mentoring process for resident artists and writers. Notable collaborations include Artists at Risk, Artist Protection Fund, the Ministry of Culture of Tapei, and EESI Poitiers-Angoulême.
Since 2020, with the creation of the REMOTA program in collaboration with guion_bajo, Sophie has shown interest in expanding community care and process mentoring for artists and writers. Additionally, as part of her research and personal interest in developing the CRUCERO program, she underwent a three-month professional coaching process in 2022 with a recent graduate from the HEC certification program.
Sophie dedicates a significant portion of her work time to engaging in conversations with artists and writers about their projects, processes, and careers in general. She is of an inquisitive nature and spends time observing and reflecting on her surroundings, approaching reality with a philosophical and empathetic perspective.

TAMY KOGAN
Tutoring: Cotxe
Languages: Spanish, English
Tamy (they/them) is a psychologist, writer, and artist from Argentina who engages in a transdisciplinary practice focused on identity at the intersection of artivism, human rights, diversity, and mental health. They began working in clinical psychology in 2012, becoming a gender reference in various areas, such as the Red de Psicólogxs Feministas de Argentina, supporting LGBTQ+ people, non-monogamous communities, artists, writers, expatriates, and other dissident identities. Tamy integrates art and psychology by viewing the therapeutic process as a creative one, facilitating co-created open spaces where any artistic or expressive work can be brought in for exploration. They work from a perspective of de-pathologization and decentralization of power, believing that each person is an expert in their own life, and accompany these paths through therapeutic conversations, narrative practices, body techniques, and various psychological approaches based on the individual’s uniqueness and preferences.
You can learn more about Tamy’s work here.

 

DORIAN BRAUN
Languages: English
His core training is in developmental coaching, and he holds a Senior Practitioner Accreditation withthe European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC). From Oxford Brooks University he received a Distinction at master’s level in Coaching
and Mentoring and has presented his research at the International Coaching and Mentoring Conference. Additionally, his papers have been published in the leading practitioner journal, Coaching at Work and the academic journal, the International Journal of Evidence-Based Coaching and Mentoring. As an artist Dorian graduated with 1st Class BA Honours in Fine Art from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, and from there he went on to receive multiple awards including Friends of the Royal Scottish Academy and John Kinross Scholarship (also RSA). Following the scholarship, he exhibited across Europe and Scotland including RSA New Contemporaries and Platform in Edinburgh, and the Twente Biannual in Holland. Most recently completed a residency with the Bothy Project on the Isle of Eigg in 2022. Currently he works as a coach and is an active founding director of Kinder Croft CIC, a forest school on the Northwest coast of Scotland. He was also a founding director of The Project Café CIC, a community arts organization in the center of Glasgow.