ArtvsRehab is a series of focus groups on key themes affecting the relationship between art and rehabilitation which aims to stimulate knowledge exchange between artists, practitioners, therapists, academics, service users, service providers, funders and commissioners.
Each focus group will generate a series of recommendations, provocations, tools and exercises that can be used to strengthen the relationship between art and rehabilitation and improve arts provision for vulnerable groups.
A round table discussion that will examine the changing landscape in which arts and health practitioners find themselves and explore possible responses. Do we need to re-examine our practice and revisit the rationale behind established ways of working?
Mental illness is the greatest hidden problem in our society. Tackling it would do more than anything else to raise our national wellbeing. Mental health is crucial for our quality of life and it also has huge effects on our ability to learn, to work and to be a good parent. There are many excellent ways of promoting mental health and treating mental illness, but they are not properly available in any country. So mental health is the new frontier for the Welfare State.
The opening up of service provision means that artists now have the opportunity to develop and offer services that creatively meet the needs of individuals. This free event offers an introduction to personalisation, how its delivery is structured and how to prepare for this growing micro market. It will include examples of work that is currently being developed including Telford and Wrekin development of guidelines for minimum standards and pilot of a quality mark for independent service providers.
This session explores the substantial role that arts can play in improving health and wellbeing. A number of studies have demonstrated the positive benefits from, for example, reading for people with dementia. Speakers within this session have been working to demonstrate the benefits of arts on health and to develop integral services within health and social care practices. This session will discuss the healing power of literature and hear what is cutting edge today.
LVSC is working with the new Social Impact Analysts Association to run an evening networking event for voluntary and community sector groups in London who want to find out more about measuring their social impact.
Environmental Arts Therapist Ian Siddons Heginworth will be visiting the London Art Therapy Centre to launch his new book and talk about his approach to working with the arts, mental health and our relationship with nature.
Interviewed by Joan Bakewell, psychoanalyst Adam Phillips reflects on the relationship between creativity and mental health, asks whether we try too hard to be happy, and explores his belief that psychotherapy is ‘a king of practical poetry’.
Collective Encounters is holding a free event to promote the benefits of arts practice in dementia care and to celebrate the launch of the three year Arts Council England, Baring Foundation and Liverpool City Council funded project, Live and Learn.
Collective Encounters', Live and Learn project will offer a range of opportunities to the health and social care, medical and creative sectors on Merseyside over the next three years through arts and reminiscence workshops, training workshops, discussions and presentations and local performance events.
The London Creativity and Wellbeing Week 2012 will take place from June 13-20 this summer and promises to be a great showcase for the huge variety of arts and health activity in the capital.
