STAGE WEIGHT WELLBEING
Artists Wellbeing for both work and health. Helping you take care of the things that are important.
Diet, sleep, stress, work pressures, inability to talk about your mental health or emotions, fluctuating contracts and lack of clarity lead to a build up of ill health.
Art offers a mirror to the human experience. As the need to talk about mental health and wellbeing increases within the community, there is the inevitable knock on affect in the arts.
The current landscape of how artists make work and connect with audiences is changing.
To ensure we are supporting our artists and communities effectively we need to reimagine how we work together utilising care structures and open communication.
Stage Weight Wellbeing aims to support artists; creating an infrastructure of care and assistance in the arts.
Through training, 1:1 support and consultations we aim to keep the conversation and exploration vibrant and grounded, so artists are free to create the work they want to make.
WHAT WE OFFER:
EXAMPLES OF RECENT TRAINING’s :
RECENT BESPOKE WELLBEING SUPPORT:
Art offers a mirror to the human experience. As the need to talk about mental health and wellbeing increases within the community, there is the inevitable knock on affect in the arts.
The current landscape of how artists make work and connect with audiences is changing.
To ensure we are supporting our artists and communities effectively we need to reimagine how we work together utilising care structures and open communication.
Stage Weight Wellbeing aims to support artists; creating an infrastructure of care and assistance in the arts.
Through training, 1:1 support and consultations we aim to keep the conversation and exploration vibrant and grounded, so artists are free to create the work they want to make.
WHAT WE OFFER:
- Consultation on working with topics around Mental Health, with considerations around actors, audience and creatives well being.
- 1:1 support including Wellbeing Dramaturg
- Training inc: Artist Wellbeing and Self care, Directing Trauma, Audience Care, boundaries and safeguarding in the arts.
- Support/supervision for artists.
EXAMPLES OF RECENT TRAINING’s :
- Directing Trauma workshop @ Birmingham Rep and Royal and Derngate (JMK supported)
- Audience Wellbeing @Derby Theatre
- Resilience in the Arts @ TV Workshop
- Safeguarding and Boundries for Artists @ Writing East Midlands
RECENT BESPOKE WELLBEING SUPPORT:
- LIT @Nottingham Playhouse in association with High Tide (1:1 cast and crew)
- Aunting ACE supported new writing by Tilly Branson (1:1 autobiographical development)
- Bonfires ACE funded new writing by Simon Marshall (1:1 autobiographical development and rehersal room wellbeing support)
- Princess Charming SpunGlass Theatre pre tour rehersal (bespoke workshop on boundries and the impact on themes)
Why does mental health and self care matter in the arts?
- Health is defined as “viewing (hu)man in his (her/there) totality witching a wide ecological spectrum...ill health or despise is brought about by an imbalance” (WHO). With freelance artists life often being long working days, project by project life (with a constant shift in work colleagues), periods of uncertainty, no sick/holiday pay or pensions - where is the balance?
- According to MIND approcimently 1 in 4 people in the UK will experience mental health problems each year.
- The Thriving at Work Green Paper states that 15% of an workforce suffers from Mental Health released illness, costing the UK £33-42 billion pounds.
- The typical self-employed person now earns 40% less tha their employed counterpart (figures Guardian 2016)
- “Active support can be used to both protect the wellbeing of creative practitioners and contribute to the best quality provision for the participants” Nicola Naismith 2019
