Do you feel exhausted and depleted and alone in feeling this way?
Do you regularly dismiss or ignore your own needs in favor of what you feel is productive?
Do you struggle to rest and feel guilty when you take a break?
Do you love your job but regularly feel resentful, overextended, or disengaged?
Do you wish you could “work to live” rather than “live to work”?
Do you feel disconnected from your body?
Do you suspect that there is more to recovering from burnout than the cliché “self-care”?
This workshop may be for you!
What is Uncover | Recover?
Uncover | Recover is a 7-week workshop for collective healing and empowerment. The workshop will provide space for participants to confront, process, and break away from the internal and external forces perpetuating burnout and keeping us in constant survival mode.
Together we will:
We will explore topics such as:
Who should join?
The first iteration of this workshop is geared towards current and former employees in the arts and culture sector. If you are over the age of 18 and are involved in the arts in any capacity (administrator, educator, technician, curator, stage manager, artist, etc.), this workshop is for you!
When is it? Where is it? What does it cost?
Dates/Time: July 7th through August 18th (7 weeks), Thursday evenings from 5:30-7:00 pm MDT
Location: Zoom. Participants should be prepared to join from a space where they feel comfortable moving around.
Cost: $120 (payment arrangements available)
Why This workshop?
Whether or not we think we have trauma, our bodies know better.
More and more of us are driven to live in a constant state of nervous system activation. Increasing work hours for less pay, the lack of delineation between work and personal time, and less time for true rest are pushing us past our capacity for stress. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social upheaval, and numerous global crises have only added to the insurmountable stress we carry with us each day.
Many of us working in the arts and culture sector followed our passions to create and serve our communities through the arts, only to find we cannot escape the toxic push for productivity. What’s more, the “labor of love” mentality in nonprofit fields encourages workers to make their jobs their identity, which unconsciously (or sometimes consciously) forces us to put our basic needs aside for the good of our organizations and the people we serve.
Constant progress and productivity are unsustainable. Research has shown that humans cannot process information or think critically when our bodies are activated to survive. How can we make healthy decisions for ourselves, our loved ones, our organizations, and our communities when we are perpetually in survival mode?
I want more for us.
I want to live in a world where we can bring our whole selves to our jobs and leave as whole people at the end of the work day. I want there to be an “end of the work day”!
I want to end the constant cycle of good people burning out and giving up their passion for making the world a better place.
I want to make room for NO, so there is space for YES.
I want to acknowledge and grieve what is no longer working so we can imagine something new.
I hope you will join me.