Practices for Self-Care in the Context of Artistic Freelance Work

March 5, 12 and 19, 10:00 am to 1:00 pm

Anyone who works on a freelance basis often pushes the limits of their own endurance and is happy to do so. This probably applies even more to freelance artists and culture makers than it does for other professions as the work brings joy – which means that the limit of exhaustion is often first noticed when it is already too late. Everyone is talking about self-care, but how can a mindset be created in which we no longer have to remind ourselves of self-care but instead establish care within our structures, both for ourselves as well as for everyone that we are working or living together with? In the form of an action learning series, we will work as a group, communicating and learning together to conduct a task, answer a question or consider a problem of a member of the group. You will first learn the foundations of the action learning in order to work with your personal questions and challenges with regards to your freelance work and associated (often lacking) self-care in the group and to develop new, more diverse and changed perspectives on them.

In German spoken language, it is possible to present your work, ask questions and make comments using English spoken language.