Join us for a series of expert-led workshops to support actors and stage managers in building skills for improved mental health and sustainable creative practice. The sessions are facilitated by experienced practitioners who regularly works with performing artists.
Each of the six sessions focuses on a specific challenge, practical techniques for self-care, and support strategies. Each session works as a one-off or you can join all six.
Best of all, these workshops will be held online, so you can join from the comfort of your own home (and feel free to have your camera on or off as you prefer!).
Managing Stress, Anxiety & Burnout
Coping With Rejection
Navigating Alcohol and Substance Use
Embodiment, Body Image and Self-esteem
Respect, Rapport and Boundaries at Work and Beyond
Vocal Health for Actors
All of us can experience stress, anxiety and burnout. But it can be hard when you are in the middle of feeling stressed, anxious or burnt out to know it is happening, let alone to know how to manage it and where to turn.
In this ever popular session, psychotherapist Heather Turkington will take us through:
- The difference between stress and anxiety
- When stress can lead to burnout
- The signs and symptoms
- The risk factors and causes
- Strategies and techniques to reduce stress, anxiety and burnout
- When and where to get help
- Time for reflection, discussion and questions
- A handout with further reading and an exercise to try at home
Facilitator: Heather Turkington
Heather Turkington is a dramatherapist based in Co.Armagh in Northern Ireland.
Heather’s work sees her specialising in complex trauma, and holds post as Psychological Trauma Therapist in the NHS, working with people experiencing PTSD as a result of the NI conflict.
She also works privately and freelance in both therapeutic and organisational roles.
Actors’ Trust
The entertainment industry can be a collaborative, creative and exciting one, but it can, at times, be isolating and insecure. Actors’ Trust (which used to be known as the Actors’ Benevolent Fund) is here to provide a place of community and support for actors and stage management through our range of grants and wellbeing services.
We’ve been supporting industry professionals across sound, stage and screen since 1882. Today, we continue to make the greatest possible difference to a community that brings so much meaning and inspiration to others.
Whether you are in need of help or would like to support us, we are here and would love to hear from you.
Find out more at: www.actorstrust.org.uk
or follow us on Instagram @actorstrust
Actors’ Trust is supported by our Royal Patron, His Majesty King Charles III
Actors’ Trust is the working name of The Actors’ Benevolent Fund
BAPAM
The British Association for Performing Arts Medicine (BAPAM) is the largest provider of clinical services to the UK’s performing arts sector, working with actors, music creators, performers, production professionals, dancers and other creative practitioners. The charity provides free, bespoke clinical advice and care from expert clinicians in a range of disciplines, responding to requests for help with mental health, musculoskeletal care, vocal health, hearing concerns and some eye care and dental health issues. With expertise gained in evidence-based practice and research in the field, BAPAM’s free workshops and online resources share knowledge and skills to support good health and sustainable creative careers.
Find out more at www.bapam.org.uk