Building Resilience in Dancers CPD Interactive Webinar

This two-hour research-informed webinar explores resilience in dance across ages and contexts, covering both psychological resilience and the recovery journey following injury. Participants will clarify what resilience is (and is not), examine common dance-specific stressors such as performance pressure, evaluation, transitions, and injury, and consider the practical implications for studio culture.

The session translates contemporary dance and sport science into actionable teaching strategies. Participants will learn how to create a facilitative learning environment that combines high challenge with high support, strengthen dancer self-efficacy and adaptive coping, and shape feedback and error culture to reduce unhelpful perfectionism and increase learning focus. We will also address how teachers can support return-to-dance after injury within appropriate professional boundaries, including communication, graded exposure, confidence rebuilding, and signposting to clinical support when needed.

The webinar is interactive and includes short reflection tasks, practical tools, and an end-of-session action plan.

Aims

The aims of this webinar are to:

• Provide a clear, research-informed understanding of resilience in dance, including psychological resilience and injury recovery,
• Explore common pressures in dance training and performance, and the misconceptions that can lead to harmful practices,
• Equip participants with practical studio strategies to build resilient behaviours through supportive challenge, confidence building, and effective feedback, and
• Support participants to design a simple, ethical approach to supporting return-to-dance after injury, including when to refer on.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of the webinar, participants will:

• Understand contemporary definitions of resilience in performance settings and how it can vary over time and context,
• Be able to audit and adjust studio climate using a challenge and support lens to promote learning and wellbeing,
• Be able to apply strategies that build dancer self-efficacy and adaptive coping (goal setting, routines, self-talk, reflection),
• Be able to use feedback language and error culture to reduce maladaptive perfectionism and support sustained motivation, and
• Be able to plan a practical return-to-dance support pathway after injury, including communication, graded exposure, and confidence rebuilding, within scope of practice.

Date and Time

30 June 2026, 11.30am – 1.30pm BST

This webinar will not be recorded due to the interactive nature of the session (group tasks and discussions).

If you are joining the webinar from outside of the UK, please check your time zone against BST (British Summer Time).

Platform

This activity will be hosted on Zoom. You will be sent details of how to join the activity within five working days prior to the start date.

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