That was my time, now what? An artist resilience workshop with Alexandra Neves

Relaxing, reframing and respite after your set.

Getting up on stage to perform is daunting enough. But what about afterwards? What goes through your mind after you hand the mic back to the MC, and step off stage?

Doing stand-up can create a lot of anxiety for comedians, which can sometimes become an obstacle to achieving their desired outcome. Anxiety can arise from feeling exposed, worrying what others will think, from fear of success, from bombing, or letting themselves or others down.

This workshop, which is open to feminists of any gender, will help you learn to manage your emotions and develop relaxation and self-soothing techniques to process the after-stage anxiety.

In this workshop you will learn how to manage your emotions and how to develop relaxation and self-soothing techniques to process the after-stage anxiety.

The workshop specifically teaches:

• How to objectively evaluate your performance;

• how to integrate feedback;

• how to find the silver lining of from a performance that you felt wasn’t your best.

You will leave the workshops with a set of tools for relaxing, integrating and finding respite after your
performance, thus developing more self-confidence and resilience.

These are transferable skills that can positively impact your stage presence, but also your professional and personal life.

About the instructor:

Alexandra is a psychologist and has over 20 years of experience in training, personal development, and coaching. Alexandra specialises in mental health coaching, imposter syndrome, overcoming self-sabotage, and gender equity. She has been doing stand-up for several years, and enjoys discovering the positive effects comedy can have on mental health – and the positive effects mental health can have in comedy!

This is the fifth workshop that Alexandra has given for Festrogen.
Learn more about Alexandra here

This workshop is part of Festrogen, a women-centric, multi-part comedy platform hosted in Luxembourg, with the generous support of our partners Rosa Letzebuerg and Mind Tree Coaching.

If you are neurodivergent and considering comedy but have questions about the set up of workshops, please reach out.
We also offer a small number of scholarship places for people on a low-income. In either case, email us at [email protected]