BAPAM CPD: Long-term Illnesses

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:36:49 +0000

Support and advice for clinicians supporting patients with long-term illnesses

Long Term Illness

A session for healthcare professionals who are supporting or would like to understand how to support performing arts professionals with long term illnesses.

A long term illness is a condition which currently doesn’t have a cure. Instead, they are managed with medicines and other treatments. For example: arthritis, asthma, diabetes, epilepsy, angina, heart failure, and high blood pressure (hypertension). About 15 million people in England have a long-term condition.

This session will explore how healthcare professionals can support performing arts professionals with long term illnesses from diagnosis through their career. This could include exploring considerations around working and touring, rest and protecting against boom and bust patterns of behaviour and providing tools such as healthy tour riders.

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BAPAM’s expert-led training events are ideal for healthcare and education practitioners working in the performing arts who wish to deepen their understanding and enhance their skills. We explore research, evidence and practice to treat and prevent common and complex health problems specific to artists, creators and performance professionals. We share knowledge and invite discussion on key topics in current performing arts medicine practice. Our approach is multidisciplinary: physiological and psychological care for healthy and sustainable creative practice.

Online sessions are held on the last Wednesday of the month from 7pm BST. Most sessions are recorded for ticket holders who cannot attend on the day (please check the event description).

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BAPAM and One Dance UK present Dance for Life: Healthy Lifelong Practice for Dancers

BAPAM — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 15:05:08 +0000

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Start Time: 10 AM

End Time: 11.30 AM

Join BAPAM and One Dance UK for an insightful CPD session focused on healthy lifelong practice. Led by accredited counsellor and psychotherapist Laura Duester and former professional dancer turned internationally recognised teacher, lecturer, and researcher Edel Quin, the session will explore strategies for sustainable practice to nurture your body and mind. Focusing on specific career transitions, as well as the importance of warm up, cool down and rest, you’ll leave the session with tools to help sustain your career, whether you’re at the start of your journey or a seasoned professional.

Laura Duester

Laura Duester is an accredited counsellor and psychotherapist, offering one-to-one and couple therapy in Bicester (Oxfordshire) and online. She runs a clinical practice, , specialising in working with anxiety, trauma, relationships and dancers/performers. Laura also regularly delivers mental health training for organisations.

Laura’s core approach is psychodynamic psychotherapy, complemented by additional expertise in positive psychology, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), outdoor (walk and talk) therapy, neurodivergence, couple relationships, Rewind trauma therapy, mindfulness, life coaching and mental health first aid. She is accredited with the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society and a registered practitioner for the Ģ��tv.

Laura has extensive professional experience from roles within universities, schools, charities and helplines. She has created self-help resources including a guided  and a free  online course. Her work has also been featured in major media outlets including the BBC, ITV, The Guardian, The Independent, The Telegraph and HuffPost.

Edel Quin

Edel is a former professional dancer, turned internationally recognised dance teacher, lecturer, and researcher. She co-authored ‘Safe Dance Practice: An Applied Dance Science Perspective’ (Human Kinetics, 2015), a cornerstone resource in the field of dance teaching and training. In 2021, Edel was awarded the prestigious International Association for Dance Medicine and Science (IADMS) Dance Educator Award, honouring her work in integrating dance science into teaching and prioritising dancer well-being through evidence-based practice across styles, ages, and settings.

Edel has worked at leading institutions across the globe including Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance (UK), Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (Hong Kong), Irish World Academy of Music and Dance (University of Limerick, Ireland), University of Bern (Switzerland), Beijing Dance Academy (China) and University of Wyoming (USA). Now based in Chichester, UK, Edel contributes to the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Dance Science, Dance, and Sport Science at the University of Chichester. As a freelance educator her work continues to inform and support future generations of dancers and educators.

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BAPAM CPD: Long-term Illnesses

BAPAM and One Dance UK present Dance for Life: Healthy Lifelong Practice for Dancers