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 […]
Resource Category: The Well Guides
A collection of all our ‘Well’ Resources
Festival Well
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 […]
Speak and Sing Well
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, […]
Sleep Well
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, […]
Work Well Guide
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 […]
Tour Well for Tour Managers
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 […]
Tour Well
Open Tour Well PDF Read text online Tour Well consists of practical, evidence-based tips addressing common mental health and wellbeing challenges that you might encounter while on tour, so you can better prepare, take care of yourself, and help support your mates on tour. Going on tour is great fun – exploring towns and cities, […]