Mental Health and Wellness
Learn Mental Health & Wellness
February 25, 2021
Mental Health & Wellness: A Conversation
Mental health and wellness are extremely important yet frequently overlooked and stigmatized. In a 90-minute panel discussion moderated by Stephanie Wagner, a trainer and program specialist at Healthy Minds Innovations (affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison), we will open the dialogue to normalize conversations about mental health for those in the orchestra field and beyond.
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Learn Mental Health & Wellness
February 4, 2021
Talking About Mental Health
Administrators, musicians, and board members alike can help create a healthy future for everyone in our field by learning more about the often stigmatized subject. In this podcast series, called LooseLeaf Notebook, the composer Julia Adolphe shares her personal experience with generalized anxiety disorder and her journey towards mental health, while engaging other guests in the discussion.
Symphony Mental Health & Wellness
February 10, 2020
Healing Chords
How orchestras and musicians are helping to destigmatize mental illness. And increasingly, their efforts are being backed up by
scientific research. By Michele C. Hollow.
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- Mental Health America: Finding Therapy
Banner: Alabama Symphony Orchestra Musicians mentor Youth Orchestra members in Side by Side rehearsal. Photo courtesy of Alabama Symphony Orchestra.
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