Authentic Self-Care for Stage Managers

As an advocate for mental health and emotional well-being, Justin has partnered with his dear friend Gracy Obuchowicz to offer educational workshops and community-building trainings for stage managers to deepen their understanding of self-care.

Justin and Gracy share a passion for Authentic Self-Care and creating space for deep conversations around important issues that many stage managers wrestle with: the mind-body relationship, perfectionism, people-pleasing, and navigating complex relationships. They facilitate webinars for stage managers to discuss the importance of cultivating self-awareness, setting healthy boundaries, engaging in conscious vulnerability, transforming binary thinking, discovering healthy rhythms, and implementing sustainable habit changes into our challenging careers that lead to work-life harmony.

Justin and Gracy will be co-facilitating a session together at the Broadway Stage Management Symposium in May 2022.

Check out some of their work below and sign-up here to receive updates about future opportunities!

YEAR OF THE STAGE MANAGER WEBINAR:

 

Authentic Self-Care for Stage Managers was recorded on Tuesday, April 13th, 2021, and was hosted by Year of the Stage Manager 2020/21 and the Stage Managers' Association. Click above to watch the free webinar.

“Self-care coach Gracy Obuchowicz and veteran stage manager Justin Scribner discuss work-life integration, the science of Ayurveda, the power of kaizen, and the many obstacles to self-care that stage managers encounter, including "non-traditional" schedules, perfectionism, numbing behaviors, and putting everyone else's needs before our own. In a constantly-changing career that can be very demanding, how do we find a relationship with self-care that works - so that we can show up as our best selves at the theatre and in our personal lives?”

 

ARTISTS BECOMING PODCAST:

Justin Scribner & Gracy Obuchowicz: Authentic Self-Care & the Power of Boundaries
Oct 17, 2021 • 47 min


A thought-leading, 4-way chat on self-care, with veteran stage manager Justin Scribner and self-care specialist/coach, Gracy Obuchowicz. Over his 20-year long career of ‘behind the scenes’ magic-making, Justin led the backstage helm on 13 Broadway shows including RENT, Rock of Ages, & Once On this Island, to name a few… Gracy, the shiny new author of Selfcarefully, integrates Ayurveda (the “sister science of yoga”) with practices and guidance around healthy work/life integration. Together, the two meet at an intersection of deep knowledge and profound leadership around self-inquiry-driven, authentic self-care.

Sit down with us as we unpack the perils/work arounds of artists’ “non-traditional” schedules, discern numbing behaviors from “self-care,” discuss flexibility around our Artistic identity, and marinate in the vulnerability/necessity of boundary work.