Have you ever felt guilty for scheduling a no-meeting day after a big deadline? Needed a walk to reset your brain but slogged through another grant application instead? Check out the Rest Activation Playbook, powered by responses from 61 artists and educators as part of the Revolutionizing Artistic Support study (Chand O’Neal, 2025). The playbook outlines instant, joyful strategies that reframe rest as a necessity to sustain our collective work.

Each page of the playbook encourages artists, educators, caregivers, administrators and anyone else working in the arts education ecosystem to rest, rejuvenate and re-energize. The 14 sections of the playbook include a definition and sample activities generated by survey responses from artists just like you! Try out these activities to start your day in a restful mindset, before meetings to help the mood of conversation, as a way to budget rest capacity for your team, or as a tool to sustain energy in an era of burnout. Explore each section and learn what helps you rest!