APS Interest Group
Overview
In the highly collaborative yet inherently competitive world of performing arts, relationships are both a cornerstone of creative success and a potential source of personal and professional complexity.
The APS Psychology and the Performing Arts and Entertainment Industry Interest Group will present two online professional development workshops exploring relationships for those in the performing arts and entertainment industry:
Two-Part Series: While it's not mandatory to attend both sessions, we highly recommend doing so to get the full benefit of the series and ensure continuity across the topics covered.
This event - Part 1 – Professional relationships, will explore the nuanced terrain of interpersonal and relationships within the performing arts industry helping psychologists better understand the psychological and relational stressors that impact those working in this high-pressure, highly visible, and deeply personal creative environment.
This workshop aims to address the following:
- Collaborators and Competitors: The event will explore the complexity of relationships between performing artists who must simultaneously navigate the roles of colleague, friend, and competitor. This includes how the audition and casting process influences interpersonal dynamics among performers.
- Peer Relationships in Ensembles: The event will explore the relational intensity that develops within casts, crews, and ensembles - environments where emotional vulnerability, high-pressure collaboration, and blurred boundaries are common.
- Hierarchical relationships in the workplace: The event will explore the challenges performers experience related to power dynamics within the workplace, including the impact and how to navigate these.
Participants will leave with a clearer understanding of the interpersonal challenges common in the industry, as well as practical strategies to support healthy, respectful, and sustainable relationships in their professional lives.
The event will have space for a QandA discussion at the end.
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this event, participants should be able to:
- Appreciate the challenges related to professional relationships for those working in the performing arts and entertainment industry
- Have an understanding of practical strategies to support healthy, respectful, and sustainable relationships in the professional lives of performing artists
Presenter(s)
A/Prof Glen Hosking and Dr. Jane Miskovic-Wheatley
About the presenter(s)
Dr. Jane Miskovic-Wheatley (Sparkly Brains Psychology) is a clinical psychologist and researcher whose work bridges mental health and the creative and performing arts. With extensive experience supporting artists and arts organisations, she focuses on wellbeing, sustainability, and psychological care in the unique contexts of creative practice, performance, production and touring. Jane’s work brings together clinical expertise, speciality in creative and neurodiverse brain types, and a deep understanding of the artistic sector, helping to shape healthier, more sustainable careers and communities in the arts and beyond.
Assoc. Prof. Glen Hosking is a clinical psychologist with over 20 years research and clinical experience in working with the performing arts industry. His PhD investigated the mental health of Australian performing artists. He is currently the lead researcher on projects investigating the mental health of music theatre performers, a project looking at the experience of professional orchestra musicians, a project investigating body image in pre-professional dancers and a project investigating the lived experience of singer songwriters. Glen is the convener of the Psychology and the Entertainment and Performing Arts Industry Interest Group.
Notes
Target Audience
This event is aimed at psychologists interested in working with those who work within the perfomring arts industry.
Duration of Access
This event will be recorded. The recording will be emailed to all registered within 2 weeks post event and available for viewing up to 90 days.
CPD
It is up to attendees to assess and determine how learning from this event aligns with the requirements of their learning plan. The providers accordingly do not make any representation that the event counts towards attendees’ CPD learning requirements. If an attendee determines themselves that the learning they complete aligns to their learning plan, then they can decide to count those hours towards their CPD requirements for the registration cycle.
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