Join Women in Chicago for a Wellness Panel with a focus on dealing with performance issues and stage fright, finding work/life balance in a creative career, finding and nurturing your inner artist, being authentic, and learning how to care for yourself inside and out!
OPEN TO ALL MEMBERS!!
A brief panel will be followed by a workshop / round table sessions.
Topics include:
• Helping with fear and all the various ways it might show up and affect lives/artistry - performance anxiety, procrastination, lack of focus, overwhelm, etc.
• Dealing with Stage Fright / Anxiety, pushing yourself to do something new.
• Dealing with rejection, feedback, and negative reviews
• Cultivating and building upon strengths
• Building resilience and boundaries
• Cumulative Trauma/repetitive stress injury (musicians)
• The stigma of addressing injuries as a performer and the importance of addressing symptoms/problems early
• Review of some common problems musicians deal with specifics to their professions, including carpal tunnel, tendonitis, rotator cuff syndrome, lower back pain
• How traditional roles of women in the home can contribute to repetitive stressors that can affect their professional work
• Where to get care, various traditional and holistic approaches that can be pursued.
Meet our Panelists: Stephanie Davies Devlin (SD Rehab, ) Marta Johnson (Inner Artistry), Meagan O'Brien (Second City)
Stephanie Davies Devlin (SD Rehab - http://www.sdrehab.com/)
Stephanie graduated from the University of Illinois in 1993 with a degree in Occupational Therapy. Stephanie is especially dedicated to the unique needs of professional musicians and the challenges they face physically in their careers. Her skills and understanding of cumulative trauma has grown over the years after working with numerous classical musicians in the studio and on the road with them on tour. Additionally, Stephanie has more than ten years experience in studying and practicing various forms of mediation including Zen Meditation, Mindfulness Meditation and Loving Kindness Meditation. (http://www.sdrehab.com/introduction)
Marta Johnson (Inner Artistry - http://innerartistry.space/)
Marta Johnson is an Internal Family Systems (“IFS”) practitioner, pianist, performance and creativity coach, who helps people uncover their natural Inner Artistry. Your Inner Artist is that part of you who already is confident, creative, compassionate and resilient. Marta works with creatives, performers, curious explorers, entrepreneurs, and parents. Inner Artistry is a way to explore the wholeness of you. Making space for the inner conflicts, the chaos, the big feelings, and celebrating you for who you are, your desires and inspirations, your creations and performances. Being an artist, a performer, an entrepreneur and a human, can be challenging in this world and culture. There might be a set of external challenges you experience, like irregular income, rejections, weird work hours, and inner challenges, like performance anxiety, burnout, feeling like you don't fit in, and unhappiness.
Meagan O'Brien (Second City)
Meagan O’Brien began her career as a mechanical engineer working in the aerospace industry designing flight deck controls for military and commercial airplanes. In the evenings she studied and performed improvisation at The Second City and iO. Following her passion, she quit her job in 2006 and toured with The Second City National Touring Company. Once she had her fill of long van rides, she discovered a new passion: blending the philosophies and skills of improvisation with challenges in the business world. She spends her time facilitating corporate workshops, giving keynote presentations, hosting events and panel discussions, and generally loving what she gets to do every day! She was recently named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business.
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