December 8 – 12pm Pacific
Join queer circus artist, director, coach, and psychotherapist Janelle Peters, LCSW a.k.a Cirque Psych for the December Circus Smart Speaker Series lecture!
Formerly thought to only impact first responders and direct care providers, Burnout and Compassion Fatigue actually threaten the mental health of people across many fields. Circus professionals, due to our deep commitment and care for our work, our students, and our communities, are especially vulnerable, and rarely trained in how to identify and work with Burnout or Compassion Fatigue. This workshop provides an opportunity for reflection and self-assessment, as well as tools and frameworks to help prevent, mitigate, and heal from Burnout and Compassion Fatigue in our work as circus humans.
Can’t make it live?
** RECORDING AVAILABLE ** for one week afterwards
In their talk Janelle will cover the following:
• Frameworks for understanding burnout, and its cousin, compassion fatigue.
• Opportunity for self-reflection in relation to burnout and compassion fatigue.
• Perspectives on the causes of burnout and compassion fatigue.
• Starting points for addressing burnout and compassion fatigue for circus professionals.
More about Janelle Peters, LCSW:
Janelle Peters, LCSW (they/them) is a queer circus artist, director, coach, and psychotherapist. Janelle’s work as Cirque Psych includes creating materials, and holding space for conversations about mental health, wellbeing, and systemic change in Circus and the Performing Arts. This work stems from the question “What if circus were known for valuing the wholeness and humanity of everyone involved?”.
Janelle offers workshops in circus skills and in mental health, wellbeing, and systemic change at studios and festivals worldwide as well as consulting for studios and companies who want to incorporate this kind of material into their policies and practices.
Access them online!
IG: @janelledinosaurs , @cirque_psych
Follow them for information about an upcoming training retreat in Mexico!