Turning the Lens Inward with Bettina Linstrum

A half-day workshop on self-awareness, managing stress, and staying well in creative work

This workshop is dedicated to the person behind the camera. You spend your working life attuned to light, framing, and telling other people's stories - often at the cost of your own equilibrium.

This workshop offers a grounded, practical space to step back and check in with yourself.

Through guided self-awareness exercises, we'll explore how stress shows up in your body and work, and its impact in your environment. We'll use playful metaphor and reframing techniques to get clarity on ‘working at your best’, shift unhelpful narratives about productivity, perfectionism, and creative identity - the kind of thinking that quietly drains energy over time.

The workshop closes with a focus on sustainable wellbeing: not as an afterthought, but as part of a long, healthy creative career. No prior experience with wellbeing practices is needed - just an open curiosity and willingness to turn the lens inward.

Bettina Linstrum
Facilitator & Therapeutic Coach

Bettina is a highly acclaimed and qualified Coach and Consultant in the creative industry with over 15 years experience. She supports the creative sector through 1-1 and business coaching and leadership programmes including the TOOLBOX Residency, the Jerwood Artists Support Programme, and Sura Medura in Sri Lanka. In 2024, she gained an additional qualification as a Therapeutic Coach following training in Clinical Hypnotherapy and Neurolinguistic Programming. Bettina is a strong advocate of the fantastic tools coaching can offer to manage anxiety and overwhelm, enhance resilience, and in turn build a sustainable career in the arts. Her approach and facilitation skills alongside powerful and creative methodologies serve to unlock a different kind of thinking.

With a background in the arts, she founded ArtsAgenda in 2004 as a creative producer for outdoor arts and site-specific theatre, building a reputation for ambitious international projects with artists including Dreamthinkspeak, Rotozaza and Hydrocracker.

Bettina has also been involved in shaping festival programmes and large-scale events, including for the 2012 Cultural Olympiad. She has worked with LIFT, Arts Council England, xtrax, Stockton Riverside Festival and the National Theatre, and served as interim Director of Outdoor Arts UK. She has facilitated workshops across the UK and Europe, and currently coordinates production for Caravan Assembly at Brighton Festival.

Limited places available.