November 23, 2023

I did my last intervention in November, letting 7 participants who have burnout from Creative Industries do Expressive Writing in Burnout topic

4 days, 15-20 minutes/day

Writing in their safe and private space in their own time

After 4 days I had a one-hour Zoom meeting with them and the therapist to catch up, feedback, Q&A, and provide information about burnout.

These are the questions in my 4-days intervention :

DAY1: Explain your burnout experience.
1.1 What factors make it worse or better?

DAY2: What are the main sources of stress?
2.1 ranks the source from high to low.

2.2. Explain each source.

DAY3: What does work mean to you, and how does work give you value?
3.1 Aside from work, what are other values you have or see in yourself?

3.2 What makes you feel valued? Give three examples of situations.

DAY4: What do you become aware of after the whole process of writing?
4.1 What will you try to do about it?

All the Expressive writing feedback and results in English are in the sheet:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gDyjW_8f6NY36roOVGmxEUcvXt9PmxqbnBhtcPXGR6Q/edit?usp=sharing

Some questions included:

Your feelings and emotions while participating in Expressive Writing? (during the 4-day writing period)

The benefits you have gained from doing Expressive Writing on the topic of burnout?

What new insights or additional understanding have you gained about yourself after participating in this round of Expressive Writing?

If it’s not through this Burnout Expressive Writing, do you think there are workshops or methods that you believe would help you become more aware of your own burnout condition? (In your opinion)

Also, the important question is whether they are going to adopt this writing in the future or not, so it going to answer my research question.

Will you continue with Expressive Writing in the future, and why?

Yes, but maybe only once a month or every two weeks. I think it’s good to reflect your thoughts on somewhere, can be writing, drawing or talking to yourselves. At least i think we should reflect our emotions and thoughts to know what we’ve been through.

If there’s time, I may do it, or perhaps I’ll come back to do it on the day when I start questioning what I’m doing again.

I’m continuing because I’ve vented and had a conversation with myself, keeping it to read in the coming days.

I probably won’t continue because I don’t really enjoy journaling. I feel like I’ve figured out how to deal with my stress in other ways. I prefer talking to people more, so I think I’ll go in that direction instead.

I usually do it almost every day, but it might not be very deep. I might try to add more expressive elements than before.

I return to do it on days when I feel burnout.

Maybe because it felt like weighing diary that reflect my feeling of the day

One of them won’t continue.

Two of them said ‘Maybe.

Four of them will continue.