Join artist and Arts & Health Hub Director Daniel Regan for this creative session that explores the myriad of ways that we can care for ourselves in the work that we do as artists.
This is a much smaller and intimate and involved group than our previous workshop, which gives space for individual perspectives, challenges and solutions. Spaces are limited to 8.
For 20 years Daniel has been working at the intersection of arts and health. His career spans producing commissions and works for galleries about his lived experiences of ill mental health to having a complimentary socially engaged practice that often explores complex and difficult subjects such as mental health, suicide, racism and loss, working in various community and clinical settings with often vulnerable participants. This rewarding, yet heavy work, can weigh on many of us who work in the Creative Health sector.
In autumn 2022 Daniel was awarded a bursary from a-n to explore the development of an individualised support framework to help him think about how to sustainably work in this sector, including working with experts to:
Think about practical ways to manage fees and workloads, including building awareness of the 'weight' of current and upcoming works and emotional capacity to work on such projects;
Explore how to better implement and ask for support when working on projects that have the potential for exposure to distressing conversations and content;
Identify and notice via embodied methods when work is causing a significant disruption, and figuring out how to create change or process the residual feelings.
In this session Daniel will share his findings and will take you through a creative and collaborative exploration of what taking care of ourselves might look like, supporting you to gently build up the beginnings of your own support framework.
This session is ideal for artists working in the arts and health sector who are:
Looking to explore setting professional and personal boundaries in their work;
Exploring and defining what they need to do their best work;
Making work that explores their lived experience of illness;
Struggling to let go of the content they are exposed to at work.
Places are limited to 8 participants, meaning it is much more intimate and involved group that gives space for individual perspectives, challenges and solutions.
What others said about previous versions of this workshop:
“It felt great to take the time to stop and reflect — I don’t often do it and this has inspired me to do it more often!”
“This was better than 1 year of monthly reflective practice!”
“I will take away: the importance of taking time, the importance of reflecting, that letting go matters, that I matter most…”
Questions etc
If you're not sure if this event is for you or if you have any questions please contact info@artsandhealthhub.org.
Venue
Arts & Health Hub HQ is located in a beautiful, bright and colourful studio, 10 minutes walk from Peckham Rye station which is on the Overground line and served with trains from London Bridge and London Victoria (10 and 15mins respectively). The studio is on the first floor without a lift which sadly means this venue is not wheelchair accessible. You can see photos of the lovely bright & colourful space below.
Materials
All creative materials provided - but feel free to bring your own if there’s something in particular that you’re working with/on.
Refreshments
Tea / coffee / soft drinks / water is provided. If you want to bring snacks please do.
Cost.
£30 (includes £1.50 booking fee)
Refund Policy
Tickets to this event are non-refundable. Arts & Health Hub is a small non-profit organisation without on-going support for core costs / staff. We have to calculate costs for each event to make it financially viable for the organisation and those delivering the work, meaning that if each space isn't filled we may not be able to run some events or make it financially viable to deliver the event.