Film and television productions bring together highly skilled people to perform under pressure, navigate intense relationships and deliver extraordinary work against tight deadlines. Yet we don't always think about cast and crew in the same way we think about other high-performance teams. In this session, Consultant Psychologists Laura Bowden and Dr Joel Harvey explore what applied psychology can bring to production: creating the conditions for trust and cohesion from the start, navigating pressure and relationships during filming, and managing endings, transitions and returning productions well.
Drawing on psychology from high-performance and complex environments, they'll introduce a practical way of thinking about the production lifecycle: Start well. Stay well. End well.
This isn't about turning the set into a therapy room. It's about understanding the human system behind the production — and how creating the right conditions can strengthen wellbeing, relationships and performance.