It is precisely for ourselves that the compromise is the most difficult. Quite often we are talking about issues that are common in our environment: way too many projects implemented at the same time, human resources underinvested in terms of both quantities and competences, or the burnout of cultural personnel, which is the result of too much work. So what can we do to put real boundaries between our professional and private lives?
Does a job that you’re passionate about really never make you tired? Do we work less when working with friends? What is your working and leisure culture? How to separate working time from other areas of life and is it worth doing? How does personal commitment affect the existing tension between pursuing goals and developing relationships? How do habits help to better organise inherently unpredictable work and to efficiently handle a large number of non-standard tasks, typical of working in the cultural sector?
We invite you to jointly look for answers to the questions mentioned above and update your definition of work and rest. To study your strategies and habits related to defining and experiencing both work and leisure. The workshop “Practising work – a profession called culture” will be lead by Paulina Czapska and Anna Szapert from the “FUTURE SIMPLE” Collective.
Paulina Czapska – for more than 10 years she has been supporting individuals and organisations in expanding their professional and personal skills. The idea of sustainable activism is really important to her. She designs educational and development programmes, conduct workshops and entire processes supporting teams of various companies and cultural institutions in better communication, creating new solutions and strategic planning (including U-Jazdowski Castle, TIFF Festival, Transatlantyk Festival, Netia OFF Camera, StoryLab Pro, Pracownia Duży Pokój, Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology, Theatre Pedagogues Association). She is an author of socio-cultural programmes and a long-term member of the Board of the „ę” Society of Creative Initiatives, a co-initiator of Marzycielei Rzemieślnicy (Dreamers and Craftsmen) – a social innovation incubator.
Anna Szapert – a member of the “FUTURE SIMPLE” Collective and “Zawód Artystka” (“Profession: Artist”) – exercises with work programme. She is a PhD student at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities. Her experience includes individual as well as group work in various organisations (e.g. the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland, Ministry of Environment, Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute, U-Jazdowski Castle, Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology). She assists in the search for new directions of development and in increasing internal resources and potential, design and conduct training processes. She loves working with artists and cultural institutions. Her passions are the psychology of creativity and searching for innovative ways of comprehensive support for creative artists.
