Education and training

Equip yourself with the tools and understanding required to promote good mental health in the workplace. Designed to help you negotiate legal frameworks and highlight best practice, this new course places a specific focus on the needs of young people in your workforce.

A professional development opportunity for vocal leaders. Join music therapist and vocal coach Phoene Cave and respiratory physiotherapist Adam Lewis for a 3 day intensive training to equip you with the skills to lead singing for lung health.

Laban Building, Creekside, London SE8 3DZ

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This weekend CDP courses offering by the Guildhall School of Music and Drama will focus on the development of the skills and approaches needed to lead musical activities within healthcare, with a particular emphasis on working with elderly patients and dementia sufferers. The course will be led by Creative Learning tutor Rhia Parker.

This introductory workshop will explore key principles and methodologies for evaluating arts, health and wellbeing projects and programmes. It will explore the types of evidence that might be useful for arts practitioners and organisations seeking to develop a wellbeing focus as part of their work. It will examine each phase of the evaluation cycle, from planning through to dissemination, responding to participants' questions and providing guidance on when and how to use different evaluation approaches, methods and tools.

Two days of workshops and the first day will focus on Vision into Action This course will include: Creative visioning and action planning, looking at the practical steps for creating work, applying for funding and how to market your project This will be an enjoyable, experiential and practical day, where you will explore ways of using your artistic and therapeutic skills to design and deliver exciting and creative projects.

In this free online course, you’ll gain a unique insight into dementia through the stories, symptoms and science behind four less common diagnoses. You’ll explore key issues in dementia care and research through the eyes of people affected by four less common conditions. World-leading experts at UCL show how research into the signs, stages, symptoms and causes of these forms can bring us closer to defeating dementia.

This learning experience will give an insight into the process and understanding of arts therapy to enable a fuller arts engagement with people who have a diagnosis of dementia. The day will outline dementia and arts therapy and look at how arts therapy communication can inform engagement and emotional understanding.