Creative Health and Wellbeing through Artmaking Online Short Course

Participating in the course will both allow you to understand your own role in managing health and wellbeing and provide you with tools to bring this knowledge into other areas of life such as work and family. Every student will have the opportunity to design and deliver their own practical exercise based on the learnings.

Course Outcomes

The course will show how the arts can help meet major challenges facing health and social care including ageing, long-term conditions, loneliness and physical activity. The course will also explore the difference between art as therapy and creative art therapy. Students will produce works of art throughout the course.

By the end of the course you will have:

• Read key publications in the arts & wellbeing movement

• Connected to the larger network of practitioners and artists interested in and delivering arts & health initiatives

• Tested out a variety of practical ways to deliver art workshops and exercises

• Understood your own practice in relation to health & wellbeing

• Delivered a workshop to your classmates at the end of course based on your specific interests and guided by the learning

Topics covered

• Hands on drawing, painting and sculpture sessions

• Short seminars with resources and guides

• Group feedback and dialogue

• Self-reflection

• One to one tutorials and feedback

• Connections to the larger network of UK Arts & Health