Mental Health for Artists
About this Event
Burnout isn't a personal failure, it's a pattern. This workshop creates space to examine it.
Led by curator and psychotherapist Gabrielle Banzhaf, this full-day workshop supports artists in building more sustainable creative practices. This session addresses helping participants recognize their own patterns, understand their limits, and make clearer decisions about work and life.
The day moves through burnout and stress recognition, capacity mapping, boundary-setting, and navigating uncertainty by using guided exercises and peer discussion throughout. Participants will leave with concrete tools, including a personal Burnout Timeline, a Capacity Map, and practiced Boundary Scripts. The workshop also addresses the structural context honestly: therapy and self-work have limits and stable housing, healthcare, and financial security matter more than any single workshop can fix. The goal is to offer grounded tools for clearer thinking and more intentional practice.
Schedule
11:00 AM — Arrival, coffee & introductions
12:00 PM — Values exercise & shared baseline
1:00 PM — Burnout & stress recognition
2:00 PM — Lunch
2:30 PM — Capacity mapping & resilience
3:30 PM — Boundaries, catastrophizing & uncertainty
4:30 PM — Reflection & discussion
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Gabrielle Banzhaf is an Indigenous Peruvian and German curator and cultural preservationist based in Cleveland, Ohio. She inhabits and explores spaces where public and private life interact, negotiate, and entwine. Her exhibitions and experimental projects are endeavors in collective gestures of ritual, care, and memory.
Her work extends into psychotherapy, where she continues this practice through one-on-one care. Gabrielle is also the co-founder and director + chief curator at SHED Projects.
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Made possible by Elevar Design Group and The P&G Alumni Foundation
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 17.85
