The Artist's
Game Plan
A live workshop for working and emerging performers who want a sustainable career β not just survival between bookings. Practical tools, honest frameworks, and a foundation that actually holds up under industry pressure.
Reserve Your Spot"The starving artist and the tortured genius are not the ceiling. They're the starting point we inherited. There's a better way β and it actually makes your work stronger."
You've given everything to your craft β the hours, the artistic development, the vulnerable parts of yourself that most people never put on the line. What are the top strategies for pursuing your dream without losing yourself or running empty? This workshop delivers tools you can use immediately β before your next audition, creative project, or tough conversation.
Pre & Post-Performance Rituals
Evidence-backed techniques to optimize your creative process immediately β arrive present, exit cleanly, and don't drag your experience into the next moment.
Green, Yellow & Red States
A practical framework for assessing the state of your mind and body, plus tools that support you in different states.
Managing Rejection
Rejection is structural in this industry. We'll give you a real framework for processing it without letting it erode your confidence or self-worth.
Your Game Plan Introduction
An introduction to Artist Wellbeing Essentials and how to build a personalized game plan β because sustainable creative careers are built, not stumbled into.
Authentic Self
Who you are when no one's watching. Your values, your core, what you'd protect even if it cost you a role.
The Artist
Your creative practice, your craft, your relationship with the work itself β separate from how it's packaged for the market.
Commercial Brand
How you present professionally β what you lead with in auditions, on platforms, in the industry ecosystem.
For artists.
Artist Wellbeing Essentials was created by Alyson Stoner (performer, advocate, certified mental health coordinator) and Cristi Williams (entertainment wellbeing coach), alongside a team of industry veterans and clinicians. The AWE system emerged from a simple recognition: the resource that every performer should receive at orientation doesn't exist anywhere else. Until now.
AWE is evidence-based, trauma-informed, and built specifically for the pressures of the performing arts and creator economy β not a repackaged version of generic self-help. It covers mental and emotional health tools, industry navigation, identity and brand clarity, and personalized game planning for long-term career sustainability.
This workshop is a live, direct introduction to that work β offered exclusively to DDO clients.
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