Encompasses all our written resources, including guides, articles and the Well series.
Navigate Well is an introduction to career planning designed for the specific needs of performing arts workers in the gig economy. Working in the performing arts industry is exciting, rewarding, and challenging. It is also uncertain, unpredictable, and changeable. Everyone’s journeys and aspirations will be different. This guide has been created to support your wellbeing […]
A quick, mythbusting guide on how to properly nourish your body for movement performance. Together we will discuss: Everyday nutrition tips How to eat well on performance days Common myths about dieting Maintaining a positive body image as a performer Written by Fumi Somehara Principle Dietician, DDD Centre for Recovery. What do you wish all […]
Open Festival Well PDF Coming together and delivering a wide range of events in a short period of time can bring a whole city, region or place alive with art and entertainment – and create a vibe that little else can replicate. That said, the intensity of festival delivery, long hours, hectic schedules, unpredictability and […]
Download S&S Well Read on website It’s important to look after our voices and keep them in shape. For performers with speaking and singing roles, voice is a vital tool of the trade, underpinning and supporting our artistry. Our voices allow us to transform into different roles, portray characters with unique vocal mannerisms and behaviours, […]
A good indication of sleeping well is that it takes us less than 30 minutes to fall asleep at the beginning of the night, and we experience a few wakings during the night. Read on website Download Sleep Well The performing arts industry can present unique challenges for healthy sleep. Unusual work hours, workload pressures, […]
View Work Well Guide The Work Well Guide is a resource that provides performing arts organisations/collaborators with practical strategies and evidence-based tools and techniques for creating mentally healthy workplaces. Your workplace might be backstage, onstage, offstage, a tour bus, a shed or anything in between – but it’s still a workplace! All workplaces can benefit from taking […]
Looking after our mental health as we return to creative work and workplaces (COVID-19) What is ‘Back after Interval?’ This resource consists of practical, evidence-based tips for looking after your mental health and wellbeing when returning to live performance after time away. While this resource was developed in the context of public health responses and venue re-openings throughout COVID-19, […]
Looking after our mental health as we return to creative work and workplaces (COVID-19) What is ‘Back after Interval’? This resource consists of practical, evidence-based tips for looking after your mental health and wellbeing when returning to live performance after time away. While this resource was developed in the context of public health responses and venue re-openings throughout COVID-19, […]
Promoting positive mental health for your teams returning to creative work and workplaces. Introduction This resource consists of practical, evidence-based tips for looking after yours and your team’s mental health and wellbeing when returning to live performance after time away. While this resource was developed in the context of public health responses and venue re-openings throughout COVID-19, the principles […]
Read Tour Well for Tour Managers Tour Well for Tour Managers consists of practical suggestions, evidence-based tips, and real life examples for designing and delivering tours that promote positive mental health for the whole company. Taking a production on the road is exciting and adventurous – producing a show for new audiences, building relationships with […]
The Arts Wellbeing Collective is committed to promoting positive mental health in the performing arts industry. What does it mean to have ‘good mental health’? The information below has been developed by Heads Up, and gives an excellent overview of mental health. It’s an expression we use every day, so it might surprise you that […]
