Join us for a series of expert-led workshops to support actors and stage management professionals in building skills for improved mental health and sustainable creative practice. The sessions are facilitated by experienced practitioners who regularly work 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
Being an actor or stage management professional is physically demanding. Being in one’s body and able to work with and understand movement and the bodies of others is crucial.
However, the industry can be incredibly focussed on the look of that body. Constant monitoring and feedback on our body and our looks can take a toll on our self esteem and lead to issues around body dysmorphia.
In this session we will:
- Where our self esteem comes from
- What a healthy self esteem looks like
- The causes of low self esteem
- Explore the concept of embodiment
- Discover how and why body dysmorphia can impact actors and stage management professionals
- Explore how to navigate working in environments where you may feel triggered by how your body or looks is being spoken about
- Time for reflection, discussion and questions
Facilitator: Rosanna Normanton
Rosanna Normanton is an accredited integrative psychotherapist and intimacy coordinator, grounded in years of lived experience in the film and television industry. She is passionate about the continuing evolution of industry, contributing to cast & crew wellbeing and supporting the creative process through intimate story-telling.
Rosanna provides psychological assessments through a systemic lens, systemic psychotherapy, integrative psychotherapy (combining approaches: CBT, person-centred, psychodynamic, mindfulness) and trauma treatment: EMDR & CBT. She can help with issues relating to trauma, divorce & separation, anxiety, depression, stress, relationship issues, sexual and gender identity exploration, healing from abuse, family and attachment patterns.
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