Bela Koe-Krompecher shares how accepting help and affirmation is a difficult but important process for creatives.
Writer, social worker, and founder of âAnyway Recordsâ describes his history of recovering from addiction, finding writing again in recovery, and then supporting others in his work with clientsâ and particularly the unhoused. All of these experiences highlighted the need to affirm one anotherâs humanity. Bela shares how learning to accept help and affirmation from others improved his creative practice, and how he supports his clients in doing this, too. He shares with the audience how we can build our capacity for accepting others’ help and positive feedback from safe people who have our best interests at heart.
About the speaker
In the early 1990âs while working at Used Kids Records, Bela Koe-Krompecher partnered with Jerry Wick to create the independent record label Anyway Records. During the following decade, Bela was involved in Columbusâ underground music scene as a writer, concert promoter, and continued his role as the head of Anyway Records. In 2009, he began a popular blog chronicling his involvement in the burgeoning midwestern music scene and the characters who inhabited much of the national underground music world. He has since written three graphic comics based on his stories and experiences, which have been compared to the likes of Harvey Pekar, Nate Powell, and John Porcellino.
In addition, his writing has appeared in the awarding winning book Malls Across America, as well as the publications Shredding Paper, Raygun, Dagger, and 614. Bela continues to champion new artists through Anyway while working as a social worker, professor, and guest lecturer in Columbus, Ohio.
Bela's gets some of his inspiration from the work he does as a therapist and social worker, with the idea that transformation is an ongoing process; that no matter what somebody is feeling they are always in the midst of change.
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