Let’s Create - Responsibilities - Know your limits and involve other people
Know your limits and involve other people
Many of the artists talked about the importance of knowing the limits of your responsibilities and where you need to bring other people into the process to support it.
Co-created work can involve asking people to share something of themselves and often this will need additional resource to support this happening effectively.
Quotes from the research
“I'm not a counsellor, and I'm not a therapist. People often want to share a lot with you that could be about their own personal trauma or their own personal circumstances that they're going through and that's a lot for us to take on. And it’s really important to be able to hold the space so you need to ensure that you've got people in there who can do that or that you've got the systems and mechanisms outside of that space to support people.”
“Being aware all the time of what you are asking people to give. They don’t need to give too much of themselves, or that you are enabling them to do that in a way where they are not being too vulnerable in the space. Some commissioners are very afraid of that. I don’t think there is anything to be afraid of, people opening up. You just need to be really clear about what your responsibilities are and what the routes are to take action, or give people additional support if something happens.”
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Jess Thorpe is a theatre maker, author and lecturer in the Arts in Justice at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She is currently Associate Director at Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre and Co-Artistic Director of Glass Performance, an award-winning company responsible for projects such as ALBERT DRIVE, Junction 25 and the first ever youth theatre in a Scottish prison; Polmont Youth Theatre.
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