Certificate Mentorship Program
This mentorship program prepares five students per year for calligraphy certificate programs.
You will receive the individual attention that my mentors William A. Lilly and John DeCollibus invested in me, and undergo rigorous and personalized training based on your strengths and weaknesses.
We can tailor your mentorship program to the specific goal of obtaining certificates from calligraphy organizations or work towards one of the two certificates I offer: Certificate of Engrosser’s Script or Certificate of Ornamental Penmanship. In keeping with the tradition of my Zanerian mentor, who judged the quality of my script and deemed me ready to execute my certificate, I will be doing the same as your mentor.
The mentorship program begins at a minimum commitment of 20 hours.
I hear your hesitation: “If I study on my own, maybe I can figure it out myself.”
I don’t doubt for a second that you have the ability to figure things out.
All my best students have this ability.
They choose to learn from me not because they are helpless without me but because they figured out that a good teacher can expand the boundaries and increase the possibilities of what they can figure out on their own.
I invite you to consider this with genuine curiosity: Why haven’t you “figured it out” already? What are you planning to do differently to “figure it out”? Will more of the same get you the results you want on paper?
If you are committed to trusting your ability and mine to dive deeper together, but you are unsure if I can really see something in your script that you cannot see, read what one of my mentees said about her first session.
Winnie has been a repeat student in my online courses since the early days of my teaching career and yet, she did not expect the results from our first mentorship session:
“After 1 session, I actually had a breakthrough. I honestly did not expect that much from just 1 session and a few ‘simple’ suggestions. But I’m so glad I took the plunge because I could’ve written a hundred hours more and maybe not see what I was doing wrong since some of your suggestions are quite contrary to what people are advocating now so I think I wasn’t that likely to figure out on my own.”
Reaching out for that first session and taking that leap of faith is the hardest and most crucial step for a student to take. If you want to schedule a one-on-one session with me prior to committing to my mentorship program, please do so here.
“What if I don’t see results? Will I be wasting my money?”
I have “wasted” a lot of money as a student. Not every teaching method will be right for you and I am certainly not the right teacher for everyone. But here is what I’ve learned: Wasting money, like failures, is inevitable. But they are never really wastes and failures because they are necessary data points we must gather to better find our way.
When we are a good match, my students’ work speak for itself.
Here is one of my mentee’s stunning progress since her first session with me. Jara started her journey in Spencerian in my Spencerian Structures online course. 14 mentorship sessions in, she has already started to teach and is making back her investment:
“It is difficult to explain how Connie teaches but it is easy to see in your results. In my experience with her online courses and mentorship, she clears my path to excellence on the script, pushes me to new horizons while giving me a strong knowledge of the roots of the script. Her beautiful soul reflects on her beautiful script.”
You are one facetime/skype session away from uncovering the solutions for your plateau.
I am here, ready to refine your letterforms and flourishes, and commit to nurturing who you are on paper.
Believe in yourself enough to reach out.
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