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.
Boundaries, Safety & Disclosure
Vocal Health
Managing Highs & Lows
ADHD & Neurodiversity
Coping With Rejection
Caring Responsibilities
Having a caring responsibility, be it for a child or loved one can have a direct impact on your own work and health. Managing schedules, appointments, your caring responsibilities plus a career that is possibly precarious or freelance is a lot for any one person to manage.
Actors’ Trust recent Spotlight and Shadows report showed that a substantial minority of people working in acting and stage management (24% of actors and 28% of stage management) are carers for someone with a long-term health condition or problems related to old age. Research by PiPA (Parents and Carers in the Performing Arts) has found that six out of ten people working in the performing arts reported difficulty managing both work and family.
This session with dramatherapist Heather Turkington and PiPA (Parents and Carers in the Performing Arts) will look at ways to support your wellbeing, caring responsibilities and your career.
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