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Cohort Certification Program
A completely virtual, 8-session training designed to be accessible for freelance arts leaders. You’ll learn the STAGES framework, build your facilitation toolkit, and get equipped to lead inclusive, healthy creative spaces.
A completely virtual, 8-session training designed to be accessible for freelance arts leaders. You’ll learn the STAGES framework, build your facilitation toolkit, and get equipped to lead inclusive, healthy creative spaces.
Residency Program
A week-long, in-person intensive hosted in partnership with strategic arts institutions around the globe. Designed for deeper application and skill-building through shared practice, reflection, and care-forward leadership labs.
A week-long, in-person intensive hosted in partnership with strategic arts institutions around the globe. Designed for deeper application and skill-building through shared practice, reflection, and care-forward leadership labs.
First Podcast of its Kind
Brave conversations. Practical tools. Emotional resilience.
Listen in to learn how we can reduce burnout, dismantle harmful norms, and build the inclusive creative spaces we’ve been waiting for.
Brave conversations. Practical tools. Emotional resilience.
Listen in to learn how we can reduce burnout, dismantle harmful norms, and build the inclusive creative spaces we’ve been waiting for.
Impactful Network & Community
Join a growing, intentional community of artists, educators, and creative leaders who are changing the culture of the arts from the inside out.
growing, intentional community of artists, educators, and creative leaders who are changing the culture of the arts from the inside out.
Build healthy arts spaces with our trifecta approach
Brave Creative Spaces
Psychologically safe creative space design
(from Art & Soul Consulting)
Emotional Intelligence
Relational skills to lead with clarity and care
(from Emotional Maths™)
Well-Being Strategies
Trauma-informed practices for sustainable artistry
(from InnoPsych®)
“This training helped give me language for ideas and questions I'd had for a long time, and also become more aware of my style and strengths as a facilitator. As a result, I'm a better communicator and a more confident facilitator.”
Kortney A, Cohort Graduate
The Impacts in the
Performing & Entertainment Industries
Entertainment workers are 3x more likely to experience mental illness
“According to NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Health), 1 in 5 adults will experience or have experienced a mental health struggle. In 2019, this represented 19.1% of U.S. adults – that is to say about 47.6 million living with a mental illness. Now, triple that number. Individuals working in the entertainment industry — actors, musicians, stage production, roadies — those in front of and behind the set/stage — are approximately three times more likely to struggle with mental health challenges.” – Harbor Mental Health
Company Culture is the #1 factor for overall employee satisfaction
“Compensation attracts, culture retains. Across all sectors, compensation and benefits play a relatively small role as a differentiator of employee satisfaction. But does this mean that employees don’t care about how much money they’re making or the benefits they receive at work? Absolutely not. This signals that differences in company workplace culture plays a larger role in determining day-to-day job satisfaction than differences in salaries. While compensation and benefits may attract employees to a job, a company’s culture retains them.” — Glassdoor
Psychological safety is a top 3 value among employees in today’s workforce
“Psychological safety is one of the three things employees value most in today’s workplace (84%), beat by regular pay raises (86%) and followed by flexible work (83%). In other words, more than 8 in 10 employees consider psychological safety one of the most valued aspects of the workplace.” — Oyster HR
Lack of inclusion work impacts underrepresented demographics
“According to the APA’s 2023 Work in America Survey, more females (23%) reported a toxic workplace than males (15%). More people living with a disability (26%) reported a toxic workplace than those without a disability (16%). Those in upper management were much less likely to report a toxic workplace (9%) than those in middle management (21%), and front-line workers (26%). [...] This speaks to the need of leaders and employees alike to explore and expand their awareness and understanding of the diverse experiences. […] It’s one thing to hire people from diverse backgrounds. It’s a whole other thing to ensure there is an inclusive environment on the team that celebrates and invites different perspectives, skills and approaches to the job.” — Forbes
“Human Resources” are scarce, or more often, completely missing
“The potential implications of having no HR [...] could damage both the organization and the well-being and productivity of its employees. [...] HR is also widely responsible for developing and promoting a company's culture and keeping employees engaged with it. [...] It's clear having no HR could leave employees feeling unsupported..” – Forbes "It is not acknowledged that there is not trained HR support on most Broadway shows or at many regional theatres. It doesn’t often exist. And then we see inappropriate behavior and harassing workplaces. And cultures that aren’t inclusive or safe.” —Kit Ingui, Managing Director of Long What Theatre
Britain has started embracing production “well-being facilitators”
“Since 2021, the British Film Institute has underwritten a program that funds “well-being facilitators,” who advise productions on stress and mental health issues, and that helps implement industry guidelines to prevent bullying, harassment and racism. Well-being facilitators are not therapists, but they can refer crew members to qualified psychotherapists, mediate disputes and coach newly promoted crew members or those supervising a team for the first time. So far, there is little of anything comparable in the U.S.” — LA Times
"I am not only a better artist and professional, but feel I am a better person because of my Inclusive Stages training. This training made me feel optimistic about the future of our industry."
Alex L, Cohort Graduate
The industry is ready for a new kind of leadership. Are you? Join us and lead the change.
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