FUTURE FACER

Mentorship Program

March 2025 - 1 year - virtual - global cohort

Follow Your Curiosity Into Our Orbit!

UnitePlayPerform is an Australian arts health organisation enhancing wellbeing through creativity in a globally connected world.

We pioneer new pathways born at the intersection of art, health, science, wellbeing & spirituality

The portal to UnitePlayPerform 2025 Future Facer Virtual Mentorship Program is now open to our global family, with a limited number of spaces for our upcoming virtual cohort.

Explore, expand, broaden and deepen within our 1 year long-form, interactive virtual program designed and guided by Australian Contemporary Artist (OFFERINGS), Founder of (UnitePlayPerform Arts Health Organisation, UPP Design Studio and The Nest Creative Spaces), Educator (UPP Method™️) Melissa Gilbert.

“Did you know this is a tax-deductible professional development program?

Plus, you can explore local and national grants, quick-response funding, and other opportunities to support your transformation.

Your growth just got even more accessible!”

What’s included?

Future Facer 12-month Mentorship Program

Starts in March 2025

Professional Development & Personal Transformation

UPP Founder, Artist and Educator ØFFËRÎNGS (Melissa Gilbert) has collaborated with global brands, cultural institutions, and aligned communities to empower individuals to access their own genius.

The 2025 Mentorship Program is the next evolution of this journey, blending hybrid professional development with deep personal exploration.

Who is your mentor?

“Melissa is becoming a trailblazing and much needed force for good across the purpose and impact sector. With a unique method behind her approach, simply put, there is nothing else quite like it out there. Her work and vision is transformative, and experiencing a part of her world in a profoundly moving and uplifting experience. We need more of this in our world.”

CLAIRE MALONEY, FOUNDER OF THE BRAVERY

Is this for you?

Are you curious about whether the Future Facer Mentorship Program with Melissa Gilbert is your next big step? Let’s find out! If any of these sound like you, then it might just be time to say yes:

If any (or all!) of these resonate, then the Future Facer Mentorship Program is calling your name. Step into a year of play, purpose, and transformation with Melissa Gilbert and UnitePlayPerform!

Outcomes of a Year-Long Mentorship with the UnitePlayPerform Future Facer Mentorship Program:

This mentorship is designed to support you in becoming a visionary leader and conscious creator, embodying UnitePlayPerform’s ethos of play, neuropsychology, modern and ancient ritual, and transformation.

Introducing UnitePlayPerform Interactive Hybrid Professional Development Handbook

Physical & Digital Assets

This offering has been designed to complement our 2025 Year-Long Mentorship Program. 

This interactive guide is designed to move with you throughout a full year-capturing your insights, mapping your ideas, and shaping your iterations into a solid foundation for you to catapult from our universe into the stratosphere.

UnitePlayPerform Interactive Hybrid Professional Development Handbook is not just a book - it's a living, breathing companion for your journey of growth, transformation, and innovation.

Rooted in UnitePlayPerform’s methodology that exists at the intersection of art, health, science, wellbeing & spirituality.

We invite space for possibility!

UnitePlayPerform Future Facers will gain access to their own genius through the UPP Method™️, pioneering new pathways that support self-leadership and limitless potential.

UnitePlayPerform 2025 Future Facer Mentorship cohort is gathering -

A welcoming space for ageless, timeless, genderless humans to share diverse perspectives and design new, emergent narratives.

Experiential Program Design

12 months / 12 Values / UPP’s 12 Archetypes / 12 Astrological signs / Planetary alignments / Seasonal expressions

UnitePlayPerform Method™️

designed and developed by upp artist, founder and educator Melissa gilbert.

Disarm

Relax into the sacred safety of art

Focus: Softening our everyday armour and protections, opening up to our environment and opening up to our own experiences

HOW: GUIDED, SENSORY, RELAXING, SOOTHING, ENGAGING THE BODY AS A VESSEL

Disrupt

Shift old thought patterns and behaviours

Focus: Introducing tasks, creating tasks through invitation, challenge, risk and choice

HOW: SPONTANEITY, CHANGE, SAFE BUT NOT TOO SAFE, AGILE ACTIVATION

Unite

Engage intuition, collective intelligence and self-agency

Focus: Connection to others, listening, sharing, vulnerability, being part of something bigger than ourselves, oneness

HOW: COLLECTIVE TASKS, COLLECTIVE CEREMONY, RESPONSIBILITY AND CONTRIBUTION, SHARING, ACKNOWLEDGING, COMMITTING

Play

Activate expansive imagination

Focus: Curiosity, experimentation, improvisation choose your own adventure within a container

HOW: INVITING PARTICIPANTS TO GUIDE THEIR OWN WAY, ANCHORS, LIFELINES, SOFT STRUCTURES, OPEN TASKS, PRACTICE, REPETITION, INTUITION, SELF-GUIDANCE

Perform

Activate new ways through voicing, visualising, expressing, dancing, moving and making

Focus: Intentional practice, forecasting, visioning, enacting the future self within the future community

HOW: INTENTIONAL SIMULATED ENVIRONMENTS, VOICING, EXPRESSING, MOVING, DANCING, COLLECTIVE PERFORMANCE

Transform

Commit, acknowledge and integrate new skills into real life experiences

Focus: Identify shifts, experiences and real time change, integration

HOW: MEANING MAKING, JOURNALLING, RESTING, PAUSING, REVIEWING, DAY DREAMING, CELEBRATING


Our Values

UnitePlayPerform Future Facer Alumni

 

Testimonials

“Melissa's impressive creative vision and her team's captivating performances were instrumental in the success of our event, and we are delighted to be partnering with her again for our upcoming Purpose Conference in November 2023.

We are particularly excited about the new interactive works that Melissa and her team will be creating for our 2023 event. These works will offer opportunities for our community of entrepreneurs, change makers, and social impact organizations to engage with participatory and socially engaging art. UnitePlayPerform's heart-led approaches and play design, as well as their use of storytelling to discuss larger societal and environmental topics, make them a perfect fit for Purpose Conference's mission.”

KATE HURST, CREATIVE DIRECTOR, PURPOSE CONFERENCE

 
 
 
 

As the Founder and Director of Purpose Conference, I had the pleasure of collaborating with Melissa, the Artist and Founder of UnitePlayPerform, as part of our 2022 conference. Our event brought together over 800 individuals to explore cutting-edge ideas in business, ethics, brand, ESG, and corporate responsibility. Melissa's contribution to the two-day event was nothing short of extraordinary, featuring captivating art installations, multiple performances, and an intimate artist talk.

As one conference participant eloquently put it, "Missy Gilbert is an explosion of energy and empowerment." We were fortunate to have Melissa share her talents with our community, and her contributions were a highlight of the conference.

SALLY HILL, FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR, PURPOSE CONFERENCE

“No safety edge - Melissa Gilbert excels in producing socially engaging art.

Gilbert strongly welcomes a pushing of boundaries in the art and design world, and celebrates the proliferation of self-taught artists who are hungry to take risks – and the design world is equally excited to lap them up.”

HELENA MORGAN, AUSTRALIAN DESIGN REVIEW

(REVIEW FOR MELBOURNE DESIGN FAIR)

“UnitePlayPerform shows how design can go above and beyond to tell a story. When art becomes tangible and interactive, an accessibility is unlocked. UPP's focus on neuroscience and awareness around mental health through engaging workshops is fundamental in sparking the conversations needed for positive change.”

EMILY MEDBURY, AWARD-WINNING DIRECTOR & CO-FOUNDER, NICEFILM CO.

“Did you know this is a tax-deductible professional development program? Plus, you can explore local and national grants, quick-response funding, and other opportunities to support your transformation. Your growth just got even more accessible!”

WE INVITE YOU TO APPLY THROUGH OUR FUTURE FACER CURIOSITY QUESTIONNAIRE.