Start in SalfordInspiring Minds Project

Creative sessions

Health & Wellbeing in

the Community-

a film by Art in Minds and PANDA

ReferralsPrimary Care Secondary Care

Inspiring Minds

visual art willow

craftstextiles

calligraphywoodwork

ceramics

photographygardening

music

wood turningprint making

creative writing

Member journey

Next steps PDP/ group

PDP’s and new groups

Start first group

Group visit

Meeting with mentor(Completion of questionnaires)

Five ways to wellbeingConnect

Be active

Learn

Give

Take notice

Creativitywhat does art do for us?

physical

psychological

social

“Like a weeble,

I may wobblebut

I won’t fall down”

Community IntegrationSupporting Recovery

POE

IndividualSupport

+ Follow Up

Reviews

Next Steps Group

Peer Support

+Awareness

+Confidence

Wellbeing & Occupationwhat do activities do for us?

(Compiled by Start in Salford, adapted from NEF(2008)– Five Ways to Wellbeing and Do Live

Well (2015) http://dolivewell.ca/)

Connect Express Yourself Take Notice

Keep Learning

LivingWell

Experience Joy

 Be Active

  

Be secure GIVE

Mindful creativity

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Slows the person down.

Helps to eliminate the back ground chatter of our thoughts

when involved with the creative process

Allows thoughts to come and go, to notice and let pass

Promotes taking notice of colours/ details etc.,

being mindful instead of distracted.

Helps the individual enter a meditative type

state.

ResearchInvest to Save: Arts and health evaluation

Exploring the impact of creativity, culture and the arts on health & wellbeingKilroy & Garner 2008

Key points :

confidence, self esteem, interest in life, more concern for own health & wellbeing, increased empowerment to make choices about health and greater capacity to cope with health issues, reduced isolation, increased motivation.

Raised expectations and greater inspiration for personal growth, capacity to cope with challenge and gaining more mastery and control over their environment.

Creative flow state where people experience deep concentration/absorption providing a means of forgetting about pain, illness or concerns – beyond distraction.

This process stimulates a process of transformational change where people start to see things differently and there is a shift in existing thinking & patterns of behaviour.

Key findings :

Talking therapy does not overcome persistent problems with social functioning and networks

Doing not talking ,was required following therapy to get back to ‘normal’, a stepping stone to other things giving meaning to and direction in life.

More than just social groups as there is an end product leads to sense of achievement/ belief in own abilities.

‘Getting back to normal’: the added value of an arts based programme in promoting recovery for common but chronic mental health problemsMakin & Gask 2011

Thank YouJune Wilcock

Delivery Managerjune.wilcock@ startinsalford.org.uk

Rachel JonesCommunity Integration

Workerrachel.jones@ startinsalford.org.uk