Work-life Balance

Self-care for Museum Professionals with Seema Rao, Deputy Director and Chief Experience Officer, Akron Art Museum, and author of "Objective Lessons: Self Care for Museum Workers" Museum work can be exhausting--especially in these challenging times. Are we doing enough to care for ourselves? What can we do to exercise self-care and support others in their restorative practices? In this talk, prepared initially for the 2020 California Association of Museums conference in Los Angeles, Seema Rao discusses how museum workers can practice self-care as well as foster a healthier, more productive, and more creative work environment.

Recommendations from Harvard Business Review for how managers can cope right now.

Information on how to manage organizations through the crisis by focusing on three key areas: leadership as a performance art, setting the stage for recovery, and avoiding binary thinking from PsychologyToday.com.

Right Direction is a high-impact, turnkey initiative that raises awareness about depression and other mental health conditions, and encourages help-seeking when it’s needed. By providing free resources, tools, and expert guidance on workplace mental health, Right Direction helps organizations create a healthier and more engaged workforce. There are sections for employers and for individual workers. Right Direction is a joint initiative of the Center for Workplace Mental Health and Employers Health Coalition, Inc., which coalesced employer and mental health expertise to meet the needs of employers and leverages their existing (but often underutilized) mental health programs.