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 meaningful actions to be physically, culturally, and psychologically safe.
Whether you’re working with one collaborator on a profit share in a black box space, or leading a major arts institution, creating a mentally healthy workplace is vital to the success of your work and to the health and wellbeing of the people around you.
"The guide is a welcome addition to the rehearsal studio, board room or production office, and I invite anyone whose life and work is about creating great art to have a read and incorporate the guide’s recommendations into their practice.”
This guide includes:
- How to approach change in the workplace
- Why is mental health important at work?
- The role of leadership
- Defining a mentally healthy workplace
- How does my current workplace perform?
- Suggestions for change
The majority of the Work Well Guide was created with support from Work Safe Victoria.
