The Burnout Podcast: Recent Episodes
CREATE Centre
At some point in our personal or professional life, many of us will confront burnout, usually described as a state of emotional, physical and mental exhaustion. The CREATE Centre, University of Sydney, offers a podcast series on burnout, with a particular focus on exploring the unique and resonant experiences of six individuals and the role that the Arts can play in recovering or managing professional and/or personal burnout.
Thomas De Angelis, playwright, theatre-maker, lecturer and researcher discusses how ‘the worldwide pause’ together with others’ burnout experiences, provided him with a timely opportunity to reflect, reframe and develop a more sustainable way to work as a creative.
Dr Claire Hooker, Arts and Health researcher, discusses burnout as a pathology before acknowledging the toll of parental burnout and the strategies she used to ensure more kindness, space and flexibility in her family life.
Lewis Treston, comic playwright, screen writer and researcher shares his story of coming face to face with burnout in a public context and how this rather terrifying experience has enabled him to better understand himself and reach a more balanced way of being in the world.
Gabbie Stroud, former teacher, now a writer, ‘recovering teacher’ and advocate for educators, remembers her early signs of burnout, why ultimately she needed to leave teaching and how she is grateful that her writing helped her make sense of burnout.
Gabriela Tavella, researcher and research officer, shares how the findings of her doctoral research so far, have helped re-examine what burnout actually is and how it relates to depression.
James Dalton, director, community theatre-maker, researcher and higher education administrator shares the contributing factors to his personal experience of burnout, its relationship to anxiety and how he values even more the creative, artistic and playful side of being.
At some point in our personal or professional life, many of us will confront burnout, usually described as a state of emotional, physical and mental exhaustion. The CREATE Centre, University of Sydney, offers a podcast series on burnout, with a particular focus on exploring the unique and resonant experiences of six individuals and the role that the Arts can play in recovering or managing professional and/or personal burnout.