Creative Wellbeing
Mental Health is very important and art is a wonderful therapy.
'An air of freedom' is a wellbeing course I run using a variety of self-explorative tasks all based with in the arts. I use theatre, poetry, film, drawing and much more to help you delve into a better understanding of your personal challenges and how to overcome them. This course is all based around fun and rebuilding joy so there are tasks that might seem strange and scary at first, like offering strangers a song, a silent ceilidh, being given a Hola hoop to improvise with... but once completed the effect is liberating and confidence building. The response from clients has been beautiful to see.
I have found over the years that I leaned more and more towards helping others who are struggling to manage emotional blockages and distress. I have always been someone happy to lend an ear and advice but it wasn't until I spent time at the Richard Jefferies Museum as a creative course co-ordinator that this came to the foreground as a workshop. It's an aspect to my work that I take everywhere with me now.
I developed my own way of working with art, crafts, dancing, theatre, words and more in a safe space where participants can share there worries and work through them. It was a successful and helpful course to many and one I'm very proud of.
Through this course I was invited by SOBs, a bereavement through suicide charity, to work with them sharing these techniques. It was an honour to work along side them and be entrusted with such delicate and profound loss. I went on to do public speaking for them at their big event and continued to run this course with them for some time. Loss is something close to my heart and to help others work through grief was inspiring and humbling.
I now bring this aspect of my work to everything that I do. I am able to adjust a task accordingly to suit an individuals needs and its a passion of mine to help others reattach to their joy and purpose.
