Global Majority cultural leaders

Supporting Global Majority Leaders in the Cultural Sector

Brilliant Routes

The Brilliant Routes Network run by Clore Leadership 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.

Re-UP!

Re-UP! is a workshop programme aimed at Global Majority cultural professionals about how to practice Restorative Care. After reflecting on her own cycles of burnout as a Global Majority professional leading cultural change, Gaylene Gould produced research into alternative, healthier pathways. Restorative Care Practice (RCP), the regular use of exercises that help repair, revive and alleviate stress, is suggested as a necessary leadership approach. By drawing on simple mindful, embodied, care-based, creative and relational exercises, stress relief can be integrated throughout your day.

For the past three years, Clore Leadership and Studio Gaylene Gould have been running a regular Restorative Care Practice programme for the Brilliant Routes network of Global Majority cultural leaders. Over this time, Re-UP! has established itself as a reputable space that empowers 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! has provided cultural professionals with an opportunity to replenish their energy while deepening their capacity to sustain a healthy professional life and strengthen their networks.

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Re-UP! Associates Programme

For the past two years, the Re-UP! Associates programme has supported a cohort of facilitators and creatives to develop their own restorative facilitation practice. Through a peer-led process featuring design and CPD sessions and test workshops, the group have collaborated to co-design new restorative care workshops drawing on their own interests and skills. These workshops will be shared during Re-UP! Reset which includes an in-person event on June 22nd and an online workshop on June 29th. The Re-UP! Associates are Aki Schilz, Anisha Parmar, Amy Zhang, Chris Webb, Indy Hunjan, Natalie Chan, SJ Martins and Stuart Taylor. Read more about them below.

Who are the Re-UP! Associates?

**AKI SCHILZ**
Aki Schilz is the Director of The Literary Consultancy, the UK’s longest-running editorial consultancy. She is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in recognition of her contribution to the advancement of literature and has been shortlisted for the Kim Scott Walwyn Prize for women in publishing. Aki is a certified Museum of Happiness facilitator and works as a business coach and workshop facilitator.

**AMY ZHANG**
Amy (she/her) is a creative practitioner working in heritage and the arts. She has participated in multiple EDI-driven placements for young people aimed at increasing inclusivity and breaking down barriers to working in the art and museum sector. She can be happily found browsing boutiques and craft markets for art pieces that resonate.

**ANISHA PARMAR**
Anisha is an UK-based artist, jewellery designer, and cultural practitioner working at the intersection of adornment, identity and the divine feminine. Her work is rooted in her diaspora experience, drawing from the richness of South Asian heritage and the complexity of living between worlds. Through jewellery, curation, consultancy and workshops, adornment is the golden thread that runs through everything she does.

**CHRIS WEBB**
Chris is a consultant, educator and curator who has worked as an activist and change maker within museums, galleries, and higher education since 2004. In 2023, he set up Let’s Make Culture Ltd a consultancy focused on collaboration, co-production and strategic change-making in the cultural sector

**INDY HUNJAN**
Placed at the intersection of heritage, creative industries, community, academia and creative development, the past thirty years has seen Indy and her values of equity bring to life a variety of large-scale projects, festivals and programmes. She also mentors self-identifying cultural individuals to dial up their best selves and has created policies for institutions rooted in contested histories.

**NATALIE CHAN**
Natalie is an award-winning arts fundraiser and producer from Hong Kong and working in the UK. Currently, she works as Arts and Culture Project Commissioner for Luton Borough Council and as Production Coordinator for Jonathan Church Theatre Productions with a focus on productions touring to Asia.

**SARAH JANE MARTINS (SJ)**
Sarah Jane Martins works with progressive organisations to design future-fit cultures where people can play to their strengths and reach their potential. She brings 20 years’ experience partnering with C-Suite and execs across global brands, consultancies and high-end hospitality, drawing on her own lived experience as a Black, late diagnosed neurodivergent leader.

**STUART TAYLOR**
Stuart is committed to positively and concretely transforming the way organisational development is addressed across civil society, corporate, cultural and government sectors. He advocates a decolonizing, trauma-informed, healing-centred and co-production inspired regenerative approach to product, programme, service design, delivery and evaluation. His work supports individuals, teams, organisations and networks

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.
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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”
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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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Frequently asked questions

What is Restorative Care Practice?

Restorative Care Practice (RCP) is Gaylene Gould’s proposition for a series of tools and approaches that help cultural leaders consciously centre reparative, reflective and rehabilitative practices before, during and after intense times of stress in order to reduce the effects and create space for new meanings to emerge. Such practices include the regular use of personal reflective tools, creative play, meditation and rest, physical activities and the active creation of supportive kinship networks.

RCP is designed to provide the leader with a greater sense of perspective and compassion, supporting the development of a growth mindset, helping to better manage the nervous system and creating a sense of safety and connection.