A workshop to help you refresh your mindset, reignite your creativity and enhance your self-care strategies with reflective, playful, and supportive prompts and activities.
- Curious about how certain mindsets might be hurting you or holding you back, creatively?
- Looking for new ways to be inspired and nurture a sustainable creative practice?
- Yearning to be a better-connected and supportive member of the music community?
Reignite your creative practices and reconnect with your why through Support Act’s Creative Minds, an engaging, immersive workshop, created for musicians, artists and other creatives working or emerging across music and the creative industries.
The workshop is designed to help participants challenge and expand their existing notions of creativity, and develop practical strategies to boost divergent thinking, expand self-awareness and bolster often overlooked self-care practices that can alleviate psychological distress and insulate from further risk of mental ill health.
Now more than ever, artists, musicians and creatives need to find ways to reconnect with their creative vision and be agile and courageous in an unpredictable and competitive landscape. Reach out to see how we might bring a Creative Minds session to your workplace, event or community.
Creative Minds explores...
- The myths and perils of creativity, tackling destructive and restrictive ideas related to what it means to “be creative”
- Goal-setting – how to set healthy and strategic goals (using evidence-based techniques including mental contrasting and intention implementation)
- Values and the importance of “defining your why” when it comes to creative pursuits
- How to use elements of positive psychology to nurture conditions for creativity, including the importance of play, environment, flow-states, mindfulness and downtime
- Creative tools and techniques to help participants operate in the system of creativity, and explore the four laws of creative success
What to expect
Creative Minds can be offered as a one-day intensive (which includes all the content above) or shorter formats ranging from 90min – 3hrs, with content specifically tailored to the needs and interests of your team or community.
You can book a full-day workshop with us, or select a creative-wellbeing theme of your choice, which comes with tailored activities, talking points that allow for free-flowing conversation and personal reflection.
We also offer public access sessions, which will be announced via our socials and newsletter so keep an eye out for upcoming sessions.
The serious stuff
Creative Minds are multi-length group sessions, providing a range of therapeutic and practical intervention strategies to manage psychological distress and support ongoing professional creative pursuits. This program is targeted to: Music & creative workers with lived experience of mental ill health, music & creative workers immediately supporting others with mental ill health, and music & creative workers with sub-clinical levels of mental ill health (at-risk).
