Veronika Klirova is a flute player at the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, a yoga teacher for musicians and a passionate performance wellbeing advocate. She completed her first yoga teacher training in Rishikesh, India is 2018 and has been teaching and further educating herself on the subject ever since. She has delivered Musicians’ Yoga sessions for BAPAM, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

This session is suitable for all ages and can be done seated.

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In this session, psychotherapist Laura Duester looks at how to recognise those thoughts and how to challenge them to encourage greater self-compassion, including how to safely and effectively regulate emotions. Topics covered will include:

• Emotional awareness

• Repression of emotions

• Emotional calming techniques

• Definition of negative thoughts – automatic negative thoughts

• Why we have them and how they can take hold

• Musicians and negative thoughts

• Attribution error

• Techniques to break the cycle of negative thoughts

Laura is a qualified and accredited counsellor and psychotherapist. She works with people experiencing a range of mental health challenges including depression, anxiety and stress. She runs LD Therapy, offering one-to-one sessions online and in Oxfordshire, and has also worked for organisations including helplines, universities, businesses and schools. As a trained dancer and dance teacher with 15 years’ experience in the creative sector, Laura specialises in working with performers and dancers.

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Dietitian for musicians, Sally Freeman, will be joining us to talk about what good nutrition looks like, how musicians can incorporate good nutrition into their busy work schedules and how the microbiome can positively or negatively impact mental health, covering the following topics:

• General nutritional advice for musicians

• The gut biome – what is it and how we can look after it

• How our gut biome can affect our mental health – research and evidence

• Creating a health diet and healthy habits

• Eating well with a busy schedule

Performance Nutrition. With over 25 years in the music industry and experience in working with artists globally, Sally understands the unique physical and mental demands of live performance, touring, and high-pressure creative environments. Working within the NHS Sally has specialised in healthy eating, mental health, eating disorders, neurodivergency, women and maternal health and gut health.

Sally provides bespoke, evidence-based nutritional strategies tailored to artists, musicians, crew, and production teams, focusing on optimal performance, recovery, and equipping them for long-term well-being.

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Burnout is particularly common among performers. In this webinar, facilitated by registered person centered, humanistic psychotherapist Denise Devenish, we will look at how musicians can identify burnout and learn tools to help prevent it. The following topics will be covered:

• The definition of stress and the different causes

• Symptoms of stress

• How chronic stress can affect daily life

• Chronic stress leading to burnout

• What burnout looks and feels like

• Why performers are more susceptible to burnout

• Tools to avoid burnout – boundaries, self-care

• Signposting

With experience singing and working in the arts for 10 years, Denise Devnish is a qualified, experienced counsellor working privately with a diverse range of people. She offers a Ä¢¹½tv service for those working in music and the creative industries.

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In this session, counsellor and psychotherapist Laura Duester looks at the signs of low self-esteem, imposter syndrome and perfectionism with a focus on how to challenge these thoughts and behaviours, covering the following topics:

• Self-doubting behaviours and thoughts

• Signs of low self-esteem

• Low self-esteem and performers

• Imposter syndrome, perfectionism

• What healthy self-esteem looks like

• Techniques to challenge self-doubting thoughts, behaviours, imposter syndrome and perfectionism

Laura is a qualified and accredited counsellor and psychotherapist. She works with people experiencing a range of mental health challenges including depression, anxiety and stress. She runs LD Therapy (www.ldtherapy.co.uk), offering one-to-one sessions online and in Oxfordshire, and has also worked for organisations including helplines, universities, businesses and schools. As a trained dancer and dance teacher with 15 years’ experience in the creative sector, Laura specialises in working with performers.

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