Creative Energy1.5 Hours

Performance Anxiety & Creative Burnout

From the pressure to perform to creative burnout: protecting your mental health in the arts.

Performance anxiety and creative burnout workshop
Antoine Lemay
Workshop facilitator
Antoine Lemay
Registered Psychotherapist (RP), Orléans, Ottawa, ON

Bilingual, empathetic and grounded in the practical, Antoine creates a safe, non-judgmental space where everyone can move forward at their own pace. He supports people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, low self-esteem and difficulties with emotional regulation.

What sets him apart: he understands the courage it takes to put your creativity out into the world, and that is exactly why working with artists means so much to him.

A workshop for those who give everything, on stage and behind the scenes.

Performance pressure. Creative fatigue. The burnout that sets in silently, audition after audition, show after show. This workshop gives you the tools to recognize those signals, and act before it is too late.

What we cover
  • Recognize the early warning signs of creative burnout.
  • Regulate performance anxiety before and after being on stage.
  • Leave with concrete tools to protect your energy long term.
Program goal

A concrete, safe space

Give artists a concrete, safe space to understand, name and regulate the psychological pressures tied to their artistic practice, no clinical jargon, no stigma.

Expected impact
  1. 1Reduce performance anxiety before and after being on stage.
  2. 2Prevent creative burnout by spotting warning signs early.
  3. 3Equip artists with concrete strategies they can use right away.
  4. 4De-stigmatize mental health within the arts community.
  5. 5Build a sense of community, knowing you are not alone in this.

Upcoming workshops, Stay tuned

Dates for the next workshops will be announced very soon. Write to us to be the first to know, or to host this workshop in your studio, school or company.