With the return to real life work on the horizon and theatres rapidly turning thoughts to physical productions, it is essential to consider how the instability and trauma of the past year will affect this. This is unchartered territory; the temptation to rely on old systems to ground us will be strong but they may no longer be fit for purpose when in the pursuit of centralising wellbeing within our professional practices.

This webinar will focus upon the need for a recovery strategy which places wellbeing and resilience at the fore. What are the questions you need to ask in order for everyone to feel safe and supported upon return to in-person work?

It is essential to acknowledge the instability and fear people will feel in returning to work, and how vastly diverse personal experiences will shape this.

You will develop your own Organisation Resilience Checklist for the return to work, aimed to support leaders, employees and freelancers. The checklist will concentrate on three phases: preparation, short-term environment and longer-term aims for embedding resilience into the new-normal for theatre; looking towards the sector as we would like it to be.

At the end of this webinar you will:

• Gain an understanding of a resilient working culture - and what isn’t
• Explore what has changed during the pandemic
• Identify what your organisation needs (what is currently impacting resilience?) and generate ideas of what could increase resilience
• Identify the possible barriers to manifesting the ideas
• Create an Organisation Resilience Checklist

Intended audience:

• Senior leadership, general managers, producers, technical and production managers

Facilitators:

Lou Platt, Artist Wellbeing Practitioner Lou has been developing the role of artist wellbeing practitioner since 2012, which draws upon her 17 years experience as an arts-psychotherapist, clinical supervisor and theatre based performer-writer. She has supported theatre practitioners and production teams through R&D, rehearsal, performance or touring processes. Lou has provided consultancy for theatre organisations and venues, offering solution focused guidance that centralises wellbeing in working practices. Lou was lead consultant on developing wellbeing-policy and procedures with theatre company China Plate. She has facilitated workshops with the staff at the Oxford Playhouse covering topics such as ‘Anxiety & Resilience’, ‘Communicating with Care’ and ‘Boundaries and Best Practice’.

Rachel Bagshaw, Coach & Director

Rachel is a director, coach and facilitator whose practice meets at the intersection of these three roles. Her work has included projects with the National Theatre, the Young Vic, Royal Opera House and the Regional Theatre Young Directors Scheme. She has a particular interest in access, resilience and creative practice. She is Associate Director at the Unicorn Theatre and on the board of Camden People’s Theatre.

Price

Facilitators, BSL Interpreters and Live Captioners are being paid for their time. Any net-profit generated from ticket sales will be donated to the Theatre Artists Fund.

• £10.00: Non-members of UK Theatre & SOLT
• £5.00: UK Theatre & SOLT Members
• £5.00: Industry body Members (ABO, ABTT, AMA, FST, ITC & SMA)*
• £FREE: Freelancers/Unemployed/Other**

*Industry body members, please enter your promo-code at the checkout to receive a £5 discount off the non-member rate. If you have any queries please email events@soltukt.co.uk.

**If you are facing financial difficulties, for any reason, you are welcome to register for a free ticket.

Access

We will be using Zoom Webinar to run these sessions:

• You will be in front of your own PC , laptop or digital device
• You will wear headphones or have your speakers turned on, please test these in good time before the training starts whilst logged into Zoom
• You will be held in a virtual waiting room when you log on, please be patient as we let you in one by one
• Your video and audio will be automatically switched off
• You will be able to see and hear the facilitator
• You will be able to communicate with the facilitator, support team and attendees, via the Q&A and Chat functions
• Auto-captions will be available as standard
• The session will be recorded and circulated after the event so that you can refer back to the content in your own time

We are committed to fulfilling access requests to the best of our ability. If you require BSL Interpretation, Live Captioning, or have any other specific requirement please email events@soltukt.co.uk within 5 working days of the event.

Other events

This webinar is part of our Mental Health & Wellbeing series.

A series of ten webinars, hosted by SOLT & UK Theatre and presented by expert facilitators, to support the mental health & wellbeing of offstage theatre workers.

Supporting your Professional and personal wellbeing - open to all

• Mindfulness for Theatre Professionals: Tuesday 26 April
• Looking After Your Body, to Look After Your Mind: Wednesday 5 May
• Good, Bad & Ugly Stress: Thursday 6 May
• Ways to Wellbeing: Wednesday 12 May
• Staying Resilient in Uncertain Times: Monday 24 May

Supporting the professional wellbeing of others - for managers and leaders

• Leading a Resilient Team: Thursday 29 April
• Managing Teams through Rapid & Complex Change: Tuesday 4 May
• Create an Organisational Resilience Checklist: Monday 17 May
• Lead Healthy & Productive Teams: The Business Case for Wellbeing: Wednesday 19 May
• Create a Racism Defence Strategy: Thursday 20 May

With a range of free and low cost places available, any net profit will go to the Theatre Artists Fund. If you are a UK Theatre or SOLT Member, or a member of an industry body email events@soltukt.co.uk for your promo code.

Visit TheatreMeansBusiness.info for further details of our online events.