Global Majority cultural leaders

Supporting Global Majority Leaders in the Cultural Sector

The Brilliant Routes Network is a supportive space for Global Majority cultural leaders addressing issues of progression and retention in the cultural sector.

Brilliant Routes forms a key part of Clore Leadership’s Inclusive Leadership delivery for Arts Council England’s Transforming Leadership programme, which prioritises activities to address existing gaps in diversity in the leadership of culture.

For the past three years Studio Gaylene Gould, a company founded by Clore Fellow Gaylene Gould, has curated a programme to support this group’s professional development. In 2022 they piloted Re-UP! a special programme designed to address issues of burnout supported by Gaylene Gould’s research for Clore Leadership R e-UP! Restorative Care Practice as Leadership Development.

The next Re-UP! will run between February to May 2025 for past alumni and new participants. There will also be an opportunity for a small number spaces for Re-UP! style training to those who have existing coaching or creative facilitation practice. This will run from February to September 2025.

Why Choose Re-Up?

Re-UP! is a transformative programme designed to empower Global Majority leaders to explore Restorative Leadership, fostering practices of support, care, and communal growth. Through workshops, “Reasoning” talks, Kinship Circles, and embodied and creative activities, Re-UP! provides cultural professionals with an opportunity to replenish their energy while deepening their capacity to sustain a healthy professional life.

Join the Re-UP! Online community to book onto the programmes and connect with like-minded others!

ReUP! Community

2025 Programme – now closed for applications

Welcome to our new 2025 Re-UP! Programme for this community of Global Majority cultural professionals. We hope there’s something here that will support you to treat yourself and others with care as you go about your day.

Re-UP! is centered around Restorative Care Practice – short reparative daily practices that can help counter stress, energy depletion, and the frustrations that comes with being part of cultural change. We believe this work remains vital given our rapidly changing global conditions. For more information, it might be useful to read Gaylene Gould’s research paper on the topic.

The new Morning, Day and Evening drop-in online programme will centre three monthly online sessions that introduce daily practices that can help top up your restorative care bank throughout the day. Workshops by leading practitioners will create space for connection with yourself and others, deepen self-awareness and connect with your mind and body in restorative ways.

For those interested in developing their facilitation practice, the Re-UP! Associate Programme might be for you. This intimate practice space for experienced facilitators will offer an opportunity to develop your experience in restorative care training and a chance to run your own Re-UP! session.

Re-UP! Morning, Day and Night 2025

Restorative Care Practices to get you through the day
Online programme

One thing we know is that we don’t know what we’ll be forced to face each day. Our restorative bank needs setting up at the start, topping up throughout and then processing at the end of the day. These three monthly sessions are designed to help you integrate those check-in moments offering exercises that might help.

What’s included

90 minute monthly online workshops scheduled in the morning, the afternoon and at the end of the day
Follow up newsletters with practise tips
45 min follow-up group Q & A led by the workshop facilitator
Continued online connection with fellow participants

What to expect

These sessions

are for Black, Asian and those who identify as Global Majority cultural professionals
involve self-reflection, sharing and creative play and will appeal to those who have had little experience while offering a shared practice space for those who have some. Everything offered in these sessions is an invitation so feel free to do as much or as little as seems right.

Re-UP! Morning: Listening to Yourself

Session 24 February 9.00 AM – 10.30 AM
Follow-up Q & A 24th March 2025 – 9.15AM – 10AM
Facilitator Gaylene Gould

Listening to yourself with compassion is a perfect way to start your day. This practice allows space for reflection, solution finding and expression while developing a more aware relationship with ourselves before life gets busy. A regular self-compassionate practice can also transform our relationships with others.

Re-UP! Day: Mind Resilience

Session: 27 March 13.30 PM – 15.00 PM
Follow-up Q & A: 22 April 1.30PM – 2.15PM
Facilitator Deep K Kailey of Shape Without Form

In an anxious world driven by the endless pursuit for success, societal expectations, and uncertainty of what the future holds, Deep K Kailey of Without Shape Without Form reveals her journey to unlocking the art of balance. Join us for a transformative journey towards breaking down internal barriers and building pathways to self-understanding.

Re-UP! Evening: Paying Attention

Session: 24 April 6.30 PM to 7.30 PM
Follow-up Q & A: 22 May 2025 6.30PM – 7.15PM
Facilitator David Kam

An uplifting session of guided movement as a form of intentional listening. The session will involve a good amount of movement throughout, with participants encouraged to opt out and observe whenever they need.

Re-UP! Associates Facilitator Workshop

29 April 2025 10-5pm & 6 May 2025
Online workshop
Free

A training offer for six global majority cultural coaches, artists or creative facilitation practitioners who are looking to better integrate restorative care training into their practice and would also like to become a Re-UP! Associate Facilitator. This workshop will equip you with the philosophy and ethos of Restorative Care Practice and culminate in a paid opportunity for three facilitators to deliver an in-person Re-UP! session in their region.

This free one-and-a-half day workshop is for those who have experience in facilitation and have an idea for your own Re-UP! style workshop. Led by Gaylene Gould and Zaynab Bunsie and supported by your peers, you will have a chance to reflect on ways of creating spaces that allow people to feel, reflect and share with comfort. You will also lead part of your own restorative care workshop for feedback.

You will leave the workshop having learnt more about the facets of creating spaces for reflection and growth, have developed your own style and workshop material and connected with a peer group of practitioners.

Gaylene and Zaynab will then invite three facilitators to lead a paid in-person Re-UP! Workshop in their locale between June and September 2025.

Applications for the Re-UP! Associates Facilitator Workshop are now closed.

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Testimonials

I just love the whole programme, it’s so inspiring and uplifting. The speakers are really high level and there is an atmosphere of support and trust.
Previous Participant

It was a space where I did not have to explain myself, even before a word had been said. That in itself was a weight lifted – for there to be space in being present without presenting a falsehood.
Previous Participant

For the first time in my 25 year career these talks and break out rooms have created a safe and supportive space for me to reflect and take direct action. They have given me strength. Thank you so much”
Previous Participant

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This programme is designed in collaboration with Studio Gaylene Gould, a company founded by Clore Fellow Gaylene Gould.

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Re-UP! is open, on a first-come first-served basis, to Global Majority cultural professionals who simply join the Brilliant Routes mailing list below. Once joined, you will also receive the full programme update, with further information on how to apply. See you there!