At the end of the course, participants are invited to create their own personalized mental resilience plan based on what they have learned in throughout the lessons.
In this final exercise, the goal for participants is to think about the aspects of mental resilience that are most relevant to them personally and how you they can try to improve them, using the course material.
Participants are encouraged to make a concrete plan: a list of actions that they will undertake in the near future to work on their mental resilience.
Prevention Program
1. Psycho-education
2. Teaching mental health challenges & coping strategies from the performing arts literature
3. Practical exercises based on well-established psychological literature.
1. Who am I as an artist?
This aspect refers to improving self-reflection skills in order to promote self-awareness about potential psychological challenges and to learn how to connect such experiences to scientifically-based knowledge about mental health.
2. What are my goals?
Here, the focus lies on learning efficient goal setting, creating a personal definition of succes and to consider a cost-benefit analysis when working towards certain goals in your artistic career.
3. Mindset
For this aspect the goal is to learn to adopt a psychologically healthy mindset for pursuing a career in the performing arts. Here, the course focusses on promoting a growth mindset (rather than a fixed one), counteracting negative self-talk and learning about cognitive biases when it comes to thinking about oneself.
4. Selfcare
Here, the course teaches how to create a personalized self-care routine that allows to efficiently cope with psychological stressors that performing artists encounter in their daily lives.
5. Social resilience
This aspect refers to learning how to be mentally resilient, specifically with respect to social relationships within the career such as relationships with fellow performing artists, relationships with teachers and relationships with supervisors/superiors.
6. Dealing with stress and anxiety
Here, the focus lies on learning about the underlying working mechanisms of stress and anxiety and on utilizing this knowledge to cope with it effectively
7. Dealing with setbacks
The last aspect focussing on what to do when you are confronted with setbacks and things don't go as planned. What can you do when certain problems have already arisen?