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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In this session, Lucie Rayner and will help singers look after their voices to prevent injury and explore what work places can do to help singers avoid vocal overload, covering the following topics:

• The definition of vocal overload

• The prevalence of vocal overload among voice users

• Scenarios that make musicians susceptible to vocal overload

• Techniques to look after the voice

• What the workplace can do to help voice users –

  o   Quiet green room

  o   Vocal cool downs

  o   Having a space where musicians don’t need to raise their voice over background noise e.g. selling merch after a gig

Lucie Rayner is a Chartered Physiotherapist and assessing clinician for The Ä¢¹½tv (BAPAM) and specialises in treating performing artists with a wide range of musculoskeletal problems. She has extensive experience in managing acute and chronic injuries in dancers, musicians, and other performers from amateur to elite level. She currently works freelance in a variety of settings, including supporting West End musical theatre performers.

Besfort Williams trained at The Guildford School of Acting. He is an associate of renowned singing teacher Mark Meylan, and has clients working in television, theater, and the recording industries. He teaches on the musical theater BA Hons course at Arts Educational and has previously taught at LAMDA. He has assisted as vocal coach on The Book of Mormon tour, and most recently has acted as vocal consultant for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new production The Magician’s Elephant.

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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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In this webinar, Lucy Swain will look at the common symptoms of reflux and other throat problems, discuss evidence-based practical techniques and strategies to help alleviate these issues, as well as share the care pathway for persistent vocal health problems.

Lucy Swain is a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist with over 30 years of experience in voice disorders, voice care and preventing health problems for professional voice users and performance students. She is also qualified in Personalised Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine with a Ä¢¹½tv interest in the management of reflux and reflux-related voice disorders through diet and lifestyle intervention.

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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, vocal physiotherapist and Thanh Thi Tran will explore how voice users can understand hypermobility and it’s effects on the voice and how to understand when help or guidance should be sought, covering the following topics:

• Hypermobility related disorders and common co-morbidities
• How hypermobility can affect voice users
• The signs and symptoms
• Effective management strategies
• Case studies relating to voice and hypermobility
• When and where to find help and support

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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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In this session, performance coach will look at the different ways performance anxiety can show up in different people and what the contributing factors might be, plus a wealth of techniques and tips to help alleviate performance anxiety over time including pre and post performance routines for musicians, covering the following topics:

• The symptoms of performance anxiety and how it affects people differently

• Science of performance anxiety

• Techniques and strategies to reduce performance anxiety

• Personalised, coaching approach – creating your own pre and post performance routine

• In the moment strategies

• When to seek further support

Berenice Beverley Zammit is a Performance Scientist, Consultant and Coach, researcher, lecturer and professional violinist. Berenice works with various performing artists (in particular musicians, dancers, actors and musical theatre performers) and non-artist performers (including athletes, tv and radio presenters, and public speakers) on mental and physical strategies which optimise performance. These include, but are not exclusive to, pre-performance routines, performance anxiety, visualisation, confidence, motivation, physical activity and exercise, vocal health, and injury prevention, especially for orchestral players and conductors.

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