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Online Group Therapy for Performers during Lockdown
Over this lockdown period, as an additional support for creative practitioners with mental health concerns, BAPAM piloted offering a short online group therapy programme. Following these sessions, we spoke with Dr Tamara Karni Cohen, a GP and BAPAM Assessing...
BAPAM Healthy Practice Training Programme – what did the attendees say?
We have been offering three monthly sessions on “Keeping mentally well”, “ Preventing Injury” and “Vocal Health” since March. These have been very well attended online and we plan to continue to provide these for free in to 2021....
COVID-19 in Performing Arts – Impact, Challenges, Mitigations & Return To Normal Webinar
The webinar on the afternoon of 14 October 2020 was chaired by Dr Rickard Moen, the International Chair of the Society of Occupational Medicine, in conjunction with BAPAM. He started off the event by saying that culture is a...
Creativity and Motivation!
Participants at our Community Drop-in have spoken about the difficulty of finding the motivation to create new work during the COVID-19 outbreak and our facilitator Dr Pippa Wheble programmed a session on creative practice as a...
Booking Open for BAPAM Online CPD Training Series
BAPAM training events are a key resource for healthcare and education professionals. We explore key topics in current performing arts medicine practice and share unique insights into performance health and wellbeing. The approach...
Creative Minds and Mental Health
Creative Minds and Mental Health or Keeping Mentally Well was the title of my discussion as a Panelist for BAPAM's Healthy Practice Series in August 2020. Who am I to be asked to be a Panelist discussing such a topic? A fellow...
Mental Health, the Creative Industries & Me: How to Cope in 2020 – Mandy Panel Session with BAPAM and ABTT
This Thursday, 17th September, BAPAM GP, Dr Tamara Karni Cohen, joins Mig Burgess of the Association of British Theatre Technicians for a Facebook Live panel session with the Mandy Network centred on mental health in the creative industries. Tamara and Mig will...
UPDATED FAQ: Returning to Performing Arts Work post-COVID 19 Lockdown
This list of frequently asked questions covers some of the key issues around returning to performance work after Covid-19 lockdown, but if you have other queries, please email them to info@bapam.org.uk with the subject Risk Assessment and we will put them to our team...
Introducing Mental Practice Skills: Focus, Imagery & Vision – Community Drop-In
This week’s blog draws on some helpful messages from our Community Drop-in which has been running over summer as part of our training and education programme. In the early sessions, some participants mentioned that they were struggling to find the...
We welcome Specialist Pain Physiotherapist to the BAPAM Directory
We at BAPAM are very fortunate to have an extensive list of health professionals on our Practitioners Directory, all of whom are experienced in helping creative professionals with health problems related to their work. The list contains over 200 health professionals...
Breathing for health and wellbeing – Community Drop In
Our Community Drop-in has been running all summer, facilitated by Dr Pippa Wheble and we’ve been delighted to have over 130 participants to date. Each participant has a copy of our Healthy Practice Diary and is encouraged to set goals and to use the sessions to...
Fundraising in Memory of Luke Westlake
We would like to offer our condolences and thanks to the family of actor, Luke Westlake, who are fundraising for BAPAM in Luke's memory. These donations make a very real difference to our service, helping us to provide clinical...
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