Demonstrating a Caring and Inclusive Leadership Within Your Team or Organization

10:00AM to 1:00PM
20$

Montréal

Bilingual training, in French and English

Exact schedule

Thursday, April 2, from 10:00 AM. to 1:00 PM
Thursday, April 9, from 10:00 AM. to 1:00 PM

A workshop for Artistic Directors, Production Teams, Project Managers, and others* in creative leadership who want to align every stage of their work with their core values. Together, we will identify your project’s foundational values and apply them to all decisions and roles within creative, production, and touring teams.

Using your real-life projects as case studies, we will share practical tools and strategies to infuse equity and partnership into your processes. By reimagining current production and touring models, we’ll explore how to create intentional, engaged systems of care that strengthen collaboration and improve outcomes for everyone involved.

Objectives

Understanding the principles of creative, caring, and inclusive leadership.
Identifying the core values that will guide your projects, decisions, and roles within your teams.
Developing models for integrating caring, fairness, and partnership into your processes.
Establishing a working environment based on management practices that respect individuals, mutual trust, and shared decision-making and responsibilities.

Who is this training for?

To choreographers, artistic directors, production teams, and project managers, including communications managers, programmers, agents, and anyone else in a creative leadership role.

Instructors

Based in Montreal, Michèle Steinwald (she/they) is a consultant and artistic leader recognized for her expertise in contemporary dance, cultural management, and organizational support. After holding key positions at the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis) and On the Boards (Seattle), she founded 44 Arts Productive, a consulting firm active in Canada and the United States, specializing in strategy, equity, and organizational development.

She holds a Master’s degree in curatorial practices (Wesleyan University) and a BFA in dance (Cornish College of the Arts), and is also trained in diversity, inclusion, and Indigenous studies. Her approach is based on collaboration, non-hierarchy, and kindness, which she now shares through training courses on respectful and inclusive management of teams and organizations.

Gerard Reyes (they/he) is a queer, multidisciplinary Uruguayan-Canadian artist based in Montréal/Tiohtià:ke. As a choreographer, dancer, filmmaker, certified Sexological Bodyworker, and intimacy coordinator, they interweave sensuality and queer intimacy into performances, installations, films, podcasts and workshops that challenge the status quo and ignite necessary dialogue.

Reyes creates their own works and has danced for Marie Chouinard, as well as worked with Philippe Cyr (Atteintes à Sa Vie), Sophie Dupuis (SOLO), and other renowned choreographers abroad. Their constantly expanding repertoire of embodied practices and curiosity for ways of being accumulates as knowledge which Reyes transmits through art and education – hoping for deep healing on both a personal and societal level.

This RQD training is made possible with the financial support from the Government of Quebec, through the Intervention-Compétences program of Compétence Culture.