Artist Supervision - group creative coaching for Brisbane artists

Here’s an example of the sort of creative collaborating act workshops I mention in my previous post. This is being offered by Margi Brown Ash, a veteran Brisbane theatre artiste who now provides therapy, counselling, and coaching for upcoming theatre artists - writers, directors, actors, and so on.

Here’s the callout - contact Margi if you’re interested.

I am offering a small, intimate and confidential supervision group to meet on a monthly basis.

It will be called “Supervision for Artists” and it is a time where we will  gather to discuss our practice, share our ideas and ‘thicken’ our ‘fabric of connectedness’; all aiming to strengthen our independent industry and our own relationships to it.  This will be a structured session facilitated by me.  I will also be incorporating coaching strategies; self care strategies; process work, creative arts.

We will meet for two hours on a monthly basis.  Initially i have said Wednesdays, the third Wed of the month, but this can change depending on availability.

WE will  share our stories; look at them through a collaborative and constructionist lens (in other words seeing things differently, from a different perspective, constructing it differently, understanding it differently; find new and deeper ways of operating.

Supervision is something that happens in the health field, but not in the arts.  Because our currency is emotion and humanity, i think it would be a way of helping the artist fulfill their potential without ‘falling in’ to burnout or depression. What i want to set up is a step BEFORE we feel we need to seek counselling.

Perhaps this will be a perfect way for people to feel secure and well.

Supervision is the opportunity to bring the difficulties/joys you are having within the industry (such as questions around casting, auditions, motivation, process, technique, agents, fellow collaborators, devising, directing, acting, stuckness, sadness, frustrations, ‘living a life in Brisbane’  etc etc etc….)

My objective, and it has been for several years now, is to make our independent theatre scene a strong, creative and viable community, where we support, nurture and create astonishing work.

Cost is $25.00.

Time for first meeting: Wednesday 21 April, 2010  Lunch time: 12pm-2pm.

Warmest
margi

MBA
PhD Candidate, Taos Institute
Master of Arts (research) (pending)
Master of Counselling
Grad.Dip.Adolescent Health & Welfare
Grad.Dip. Creative Arts Therapy
B.A.Dip.Ed