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A keynote on why creative wellness requires its own model.
The wellness frameworks most organizations reach for were built for a different kind of human in a different kind of life. When we apply them wholesale to artists (to people whose livelihood, identity, nervous system, and sense of meaning are all bound up in a single act of creation), we get programs that feel beside the point. Because they are.
This talk makes the case for something different: a holistic wellness model built from the ground up around the specific realities of creative life. The financial precarity. The performance exposure. The identity entanglement. The grief of abandoned work. The relentless gap between vision and output. The body that holds all of it.
Drawing on somatic practice, nervous system science, mindfulness research, and 20 years inside the creative process as a performing artist, this keynote offers both artists and the organizations that support them a new language and a new starting point. Audiences leave not just informed, but reoriented.
Format 45–60 minutes + Q&A | In person or remote
Best for Arts conferences, online and in-person creative organizations, festival keynotes, and foundations.
A keynote on why creative wellness requires its own model.
The wellness frameworks most organizations reach for were built for a different kind of human in a different kind of life. When we apply them wholesale to artists (to people whose livelihood, identity, nervous system, and sense of meaning are all bound up in a single act of creation), we get programs that feel beside the point. Because they are.
This talk makes the case for something different: a holistic wellness model built from the ground up around the specific realities of creative life. The financial precarity. The performance exposure. The identity entanglement. The grief of abandoned work. The relentless gap between vision and output. The body that holds all of it.
Drawing on somatic practice, nervous system science, mindfulness research, and 20 years inside the creative process as a performing artist, this keynote offers both artists and the organizations that support them a new language and a new starting point. Audiences leave not just informed, but reoriented.
Format 45–60 minutes + Q&A | In person or remote
Best for Arts conferences, online and in-person creative organizations, festival keynotes, and foundations.