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Overcoming Burnout through Arts

Project title

Overcoming Burnout through Arts

Description of initiative

During the autumn of 2020, the Cluj Cultural Centre implemented a pilot project consisting in a cultural initiative oriented towards reducing the symptoms of burnout in a group of 11 people, offering participation in a series of specially designed creative workshops to this group of people with burnout symptoms. Developed in co-design process and built on practical exercises using various artistic techniques, the workshops contributed to the development of imagination and emotional intelligence, stimulated the ability to express, reduced anxiety and cultivated self-esteem with the final purpose to help people overcome their burnout with time.

Further information on the initiative

Themes: Culture and...

Individual well-being
Mental health
Quality of social relations
Work and workplace well-being

Keywords

burnout, well-being, workplace, positive affect

Target group

Adults | Youth

Cultural field

Dance | Music | Theatre, opera | Visual arts

Budget

€7.000

Timeframe

2020 - 2020

Sources of funding

EU-Creative Europe, Cluj-Napoca Municipality

Results, benefits, impact and lessons learnt

Participants' states after the artistic intervention:
- after seven weeks of intervention participants tended to experience a lower level of burnout, a higher level of well-being, a higher number of positive experiences, and a higher proportion of positive experiences compared to negative experiences.
- for all the participants, the burnout level decreased from high level (76-125) to medium (51-75) or low level (35-50). 9 out of 11 people had medium burnout level after the intervention and 2 people had low burnout levels.

Organizer(s)

Centrul Cultural Clujean
Romania
NGO / Non-profit | Culture

Partner(s)

Universitatea Bebeș-Bolyai | Departamentul de sănătate publică
Romania
Public / State | Health
Create.Act.Enjoy
Romania
NGO / Non-profit | Culture