Category Archives: Health & Well-Being

Catching the Sun – Making SunCatchers

How to Make SunCatchers In our Art for Wellbeing groups, we always combine making beautiful works of art with our discussion about mental health and wellbeing.  During this session, we talked about negative bias and how much easier it is to focus on the more negative aspects of our lives, especially with all the dreadful…

Art for Wellbeing Workshops

I’ve been running art for wellbeing workshops recently with Cwm-Ni Iach and Community First, aiming to improve participants emotional and mental health, using creative techniques. In both groups, we’ve used the space and time to talk about how creativity can help us to explore our emotions and provide an outlet for difficult feelings, as well…

Stereotypes and Stigma

My work has been exploring the stereotypes of minority groups and the stigma felt by members of those groups.  For this art practice, I have been working with a group of women  who have been affected by mental health problems in a participatory setting, and we have co-created work over an eight session period.  These…

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