Links

National Centre for Creative Health

Just launched, 9th March, 2021 in response to the APPG report below.

https://ncch.org.uk/

Arts for health APPG (All-Parliamentary Party Group)

http://www.artshealthandwellbeing.org.uk/appg-inquiry/

Especially take a look at this report from 2017 which gives a great overview of the intersections between the arts and medicine https://www.culturehealthandwellbeing.org.uk/appg-inquiry/Publications/Creative_Health_The_Short_Report.pdf

Culture health and wellbeing alliance

https://www.culturehealthandwellbeing.org.uk/

Arts and Health South West

https://www.ahsw.org.uk/

Arts & Health South West is a learning, advocacy, networking and development organisation. We want more people to experience the arts and culture for the benefit of their health and wellbeing.

Poetry and medicine

Our primary audience is anyone in need, anyone who has at one time or another encountered illness, either as a caregiver, a patient, a friend, or a family member. Health care professionals, who may have never considered poetry, will hear -and see demonstrated- the power of language when communicating with patients and their families.

We believe Healing Words can introduce a new way of caring for self and others, one that costs nothing but attention. http://www.poetryandmedicine.com/

The Healer’s art course

The Healer’s Art is an innovative discovery model course in values clarification and professionalism for first and second year medical students now offered annually at 70+ US medical schools as well as medical schools around the world. Designed in 1991 by Rachel Naomi Remen, MD, the course offers a safe learning environment for a personal in-depth exploration of the time-honored values of service, healing relationship, reverence for life and compassionate care.

http://www.rishiprograms.org/healers-art/

Journey of hearts

An online healing place for anyone grieving a loss

Grief is a tidal wave that over takes you,

smashes down upon you with unimaginable force,

sweeps you up into its darkness,

where you tumble and crash against unidentifiable surfaces,

only to be thrown out on an unknown beach, bruised, reshaped...

Grief will make a new person out of you,

if it doesn't kill you in the making.

Stephanie Ericsson

http://www.journeyofhearts.org/

Mental Spaghetti

Art & creativity from mental health service users.

http://mentalspaghetti.org/

Lapidus

Writing for health and well being

http://www.lapidus.org.uk/

Animated minds

Short animations building on interviews with people suffering psychiatry symptoms (lowest link on the page from 2003, and now so many more films too)

http://animatedminds.com/

Free Space Project

Supporting arts and community initiatives within Kentish Town Health Centre, through social prescribing in partnership with the James Wigg GP practice.

http://freespacegallery.org/