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A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you.
What others say about Cathy Fitzgerald’s mentoring…
One-to-one transformative mentoring
Develop your creative practice with access to Dr Cathy Fitzgerald's deep holistic knowledge and expertise in ecoliteracy education and sustainability (ESD) policy developments across the creative sector.
Private Mentoring with Cathy is an effective way of customising professional development to accelerate your professional creative practice needs or gain knowledge for your creative programming or policy development work.
Mentoring has been defined as “a partnership between a more experienced and less experienced practitioner” and it can mean that you advance more quickly with this topic.

Ecological insights can be overwhelming, confronting and can challenge conventions of creative practice and cultural policy that you may have been taught. Cathy can help you navigate these challenges and environmental science easily (she worked in research science for a decade before attending art college). As an accredited Education for Sustainable Development Earth Charter Educator, she can help you get clearer about integrated/holistic values to guide your creative work for a better world. And as a nominated member of the International EcoArt Network since 2016, Cathy has far-sighted perspectives on emergent practices and policies.
Cathy can tailor specific resources for you and your work, to enhance the effectiveness and credibility of your creative activities, curating, research or cultural policy work aims. If you live in Ireland, she can alert you to possible eco-creative funding opportunities.
Who is Haumea Ecoversity mentoring for?
Cathy's mentoring is most useful for emergent and mid-career creative and cultural professionals who have developed a body of creative work and are self-motivated and keen to new absorb new ideas, concepts and practices or for those who require expert advice on sustainability developments for the creative sector. She is also very happy to advise people new to applying ecological insights for their art education theses and research, from undergraduate to doctoral and post-doctoral levels.
Cathy's experience in advising creative and cultural professionals: Since 2019, Cathy has offered popular ecoliteracy training to 250+ creative practitioners from all art fields, and also to Irish Local Authority Art Officers, art managers/administrators, curators, art educators, BA, MA and doctoral-level creative practice researchers and cultural policymakers, across Ireland and abroad.
She has given talks on ecoliteracy for the London College of Art doctoral programme, the Irish Arts Council, Irish Arts Offices for their art networks, and Irish and UK Universities. More recently she has contributed ecoliteracy workshops for writers and poets workshops and presentations to ecological education organisations like Ireland's Home Tree Ardnaculla Summer School.
Cathy is an accredited Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) Earth Charter Educator (courtesy of a 2020 Irish Arts Council Professional Development Award) which gives Cathy a high-level international overview of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) developments for the Irish creative sector.
She has been a nominated member of the International EcoArt (Ecological Art) Practice Network since 2016 and her essay was included in the first EcoArt in Action (New Village Press, New York) textbook compiled from the network in 2022.
How does mentoring work?
A mentor focuses on an individual's (mentee's) work to assist their career progress and confidence. Through dialogue, a mentor can assess conceptual aspects, and new knowledge from other fields to advance your professional creative practice or cultural programming or policy.
Unless you live close to where Cathy lives in Ireland, she offers bespoke mentoring online. When it's convenient for you, she will host a series of 90-minute, one-to-one sessions on Zoom (these sessions can be recorded for you). Cathy follows up the mentoring sessions with notes and selects resources that she feels would most help you, your creative project or your organisation.
Please be assured all mentoring sessions are private and confidential.
Cathy can tailor specific art and ecology knowledge, and knowledge about the challenges and rewards of ecological art practice, introduce you to key ecological thinkers, provide you with deep foundational understandings of why ecological ethics, values and language promote a cultural paradigm shift to envision or inspire refections or actions for a better world.
Fees:
Generally, before mentoring individuals, and to save you money, Cathy advises people to do a Haumea Ecoversity course first. But she's also happy to advise on new projects or arts research or policy too.
One-to-one mentoring can be more costly than doing a workshop or online course as in a group situation the costs are shared. Also, group learning via a Haumea course is generally recommended first as it can accelerate your learning as you encounter rich, diverse perspectives from many others and you can connect with others to support your work.
Mentoring is also time-consuming for Cathy, as she spends the effort to engage deeply with someone else's creative practice. When she looks at your creative practice, it's not just about the hour(s) she spends talking with you to get to know your practice and your key concerns. Her brain gets hooked on thinking about your practice for you and bringing the most relevant ecoliteracy knowledge to you to consider and explore. So she spends more time than you would imagine when she mentors someone.
Cathy's suggested fee reflects these aspects of having individual access to her expertise and time.
Her suggested fee to creative practitioners to sustain her livelihood is:
This rate sustains Haumea Ecoversity and is based on the Continuing Professional Development rate art organisations pay Cathy to mentor others.
€150/1.5 hr session. (Recommended three sessions = €450).
For those with limited means, Cathy suggests a fee of €75/session.
Professionals can of course pay more.