| Start Date | Duration | Cost | Max Participant Numbers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 June 2026 | One-half day | €40 | 12 |
Overview
A practical three-hour workshop exploring how creative professionals can stay engaged, energised, and sustainably connected to their work over time.
Burnout is widely recognised as a growing challenge across the creative sector not only as exhaustion, but as a gradual drift away from meaning, motivation, and connection to the work itself. In complex, freelance and portfolio careers, this often develops quietly through ongoing pressure, imbalance, or misalignment in how work is structured.
This workshop takes a preventive and practice-based approach. Rather than focusing on crisis or recovery, it supports participants to better understand how burnout develops in everyday working life and how it can be recognised and addressed early.
What will this course cover?
Through a combination of reflection, discussion, and practical tools, participants will explore how to:
- recognise early signs of overwhelm and disengagement in their own work;
- understand the conditions that support sustained creative engagement;
- identify where their current ways of working may be out of balance or misaligned;
- make small, realistic changes that improve energy, focus, and long-term sustainability.
The session introduces a simple, evidence-informed way of understanding how different aspects of work such as workload, autonomy, recognition, and working relationships shape our experience of engagement over time. Participants will be guided to apply this directly to their own roles, projects, and working environments.
Importantly, this workshop is not a clinical or therapeutic intervention. It is designed for creative professionals who are actively working and want to develop more sustainable, fulfilling ways of engaging with their practice.
Learning outcomes
Participants will leave with:
- a clearer understanding of how burnout develops in creative work;
- a practical framework for identifying risk factors early;
- and a set of tools to help them make ongoing, sustainable adjustments to how they work.
Participant profile/Who can apply/Eligibility
This workshop is suitable for people working in the creative industries.
Due to our funding, this course is only available to those resident in the Republic Of Ireland.
For any queries, please contact frankeaveney@furthr.ie
Tutor information
Andrew Macklin is a career development practitioner and facilitator working across the creative and cultural sector, with over 20 years’ experience as a creative professional. He is a Registered Career Development Professional with the CDI and has trained in career development and coaching psychology at Birkbeck University, London.
Andrew has worked with organisations across Ireland and the UK, including collaborations with arts, education, and creative sector initiatives such as Mind and Creative Minds, where his work has focused on career development and sustainable creative practice.
Through his practice, Boundless Careers, Andrew designs and delivers workshops and programmes that support creative professionals to navigate freelance and portfolio careers in more sustainable ways. He also works with organisations to develop approaches that support long-term engagement and career sustainability within the creative sector.
Venue/location
Online
Costs/fee
€40
Deadline for course registration and payment
TBC
Dates and times of the course
TBC. One-half day from 9.30 to around 13.00.