Live Design Online: This spring and beyond, the Behind the Scenes Mental Health Initiative is offering a fresh schedule of virtual trainings, giving industry professionals renewed opportunities to build skills that support safer, healthier workplaces. These virtual sessions equip participants to recognize and respond when colleagues are facing mental health or substance use challenges or experiencing bullying and harassment.
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If I've noticed anything as I begin to work my way into this industry professionally, It's that there are some serious workplace standard violations that happen virtually all the time. It's incredibly apparent that most of the people that work in this industry are incredibly full of themselves, or are incapable of giving other people a chance or opportunity to present alternative ideas or perspectives. I largely think it has to do with the fact that this industry is really connected to age. Like those with a greater reputation are typically older, but those people are also the ones that develop typically conservative perspectives when it comes to doing things. I really hope that newer generations of people going into this, will be more open to differing ideas or perspectives as we go forward. Because its really difficult to work with people that can't for the live of them see the flaws in what they do.
I have noticed that mental health issues run rampant in this industry, as in virtually all American industries because mental health issues run rampant in our very capitalist America anyway, but its especially easy in our industry to develop unhealthy working habits or find yourself in unhealthy working conditions. This is compounded by so many coworkers of people who are struggling mentally who believe that intense mental turmoil is just part of the job, creating bystanders. We’re starting to recognize this pattern as an industry and I’m really glad. While there is a certain amount of difficulty/exhaustion in being in this industry that you just have to accept, we can definitely do things better in workplaces to support people who are struggling. These trainings seem like a good first step. I hope we start to see the results of these conversations in workplaces and in this industry in general.
I'm a little bit upset and frustrated that these trainings and workshops have not been in the known to most people and I feel like mental health for technicians and designers and theater makers is so important, yet not about or it's talked about it’s kind of just accepted and I feel that so many of us are burn out and either grow to hate the job or end up quiting and choose a different path altogether. Which I think is such a sad ending because we all do these hours and put in all this work because we love it so much and because our passion is so strong and I would hate myself if I ever worked myself to the bone into the point where I either quit or it turned out I hated this job, I am a big advocate for mental health resources and as I continue in this industry I really wanna work harder to see what we can do for our people's mental health and see the initiatives that can be taken to take care of our team and take care of the love and passion for this industry and keep it from burning out or growing to hatred.
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