My grandfather died 50 years ago today. Why and how still lingers as a question. Why writing about mental health - health full stop - came to matter so much to me My grandfather, Arthur Kaufmann (later Arthur Kaye), passed away fifty years ago today. A date etched in the memory: J...

My grandfather died 50 years ago today. How still lingers as a question. The story of Arthur's death in one of Britain's last asylums still chills but his experience has driven my interests in speaking openly about our #health www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-gra...
#mentalhealth #dementia #mentalillness

Writing Our Health and Care Stories | Combination Ticket - London Lit Lab Express our individual stories, draw from our challenging feelings, and write without shame. It’s your turn to have your voice heard.

Our new #workshops for #writing on #health and #care get started in a few weeks @londonlitlab.bsky.social There are always #NHS @nhsenglandldn.bsky.social stats but we're looking for your #stories on #healthcare & #socialcare #storytelling that values complexity londonlitlab.co.uk/course/writi...

Writing Our Health and Care Stories | Combination Ticket - London Lit Lab Express our individual stories, draw from our challenging feelings, and write without shame. It’s your turn to have your voice heard.

Our new #workshops for #writing on #health and #care get started in a few weeks @londonlitlab.bsky.social There are always #NHS @nhsenglandldn.bsky.social stats but we're looking for your #stories on #healthcare & #socialcare #storytelling that values complexity londonlitlab.co.uk/course/writi...

Andrew Kauffmann is Tutor of Expressive Writing and is standing in front of a church

I will be teaching a series of workshops with @londonlitlab.bsky.social from Feb. Keen to try #writing, without any pressure? The focus will be on writing for #wellbeing. There's a power to writing expressively, especially about difficult life events www.londonlitlab.co.uk/course/writi... #health

How writing transforms us - even our health and wellbeing Andrew Kauffmann, who will be teaching a series of workshops with us, shares his expertise on the power of writing to transform our lives.

How writing transforms us - even our health and wellbeing open.substack.com/pub/londonli... My new blogpost for @londonlitlab.bsky.social on our #writing #workshops on #health and #care and the stories we still might wish to tell. There's evidence that #writing can be good for our #wellbeing

Art could save your life! Five creative ways to make 2026 happier, healthier and more hopeful Engaging in creativity can reduce depression, improve immunity and delay ageing – all while you’re having fun

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... A great new book is coming from Daisy Fancourt on "art as cure". The big claim is that the arts can save our lives! Remarkably, there seems to be some evidence to substantiate this! #creative #health #wellbeing #writers #arts

Youth Mental Health & Creativity Content from four youth-led organisations we commissioned to undertake a consultation with young people across England.

Creativity matters to young people and their mental health – now more than ever.

As part of #CreativityAndWellbeing Week, we’re proud to share new findings from our innovative creative research project 📝👇

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Colleagues across health & care have been making the case for using creative activities to tackle challenges across health pathways, especially for young people’s #mentalhealth But where to start? Here’s our introductory guide to commissioning creative health programmes: ncch.org.uk/resources/co...

We are working with @citystgeorgesuni to gain insights about the training needs of the #creativehealth workforce.
Whether you are an experienced practitioner or just beginning your journey, please share your inputs through this short survey and win a cass art voucher✨️

Join the APPG on Creative Health next Roundtable on Children & Young People’s Mental Health. Hearing from senior clinicians, public health leaders, & young people with lived experience of services, about policy context, research & creative health examples
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Working in health & social care? Interested in creative health? Our new newsletter is for you! Monthly insights for colleagues working across Primary Care, Trusts, ICBs, Public Health, Social Care, wider NHS mailchi.mp/5260ee494d27/health-care-creative-health-newsletter
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SHAPER - Scaling-up Health Arts Programmes: Implementation and Effectiveness Research SHAPER is a programme that will assess the effectiveness and implementation of 3 arts-in-health, Melodies for Mums with Postnatal Depression, Dance for Parkinson’s, Stroke Odysseys.

Great event right now on how the #arts and #creativity can tackle #loneliness and boost #health from Tackling Lonelinesss Hub with fab contributions on #creative health from @artscouncilengland.bsky.social & London Arts and Health: such a strong evidence base emerging www.kcl.ac.uk/research/sha...

A title reads "Create Conversations: Creativity and Wellbeing". The orange and white graphic includes an invitation to join a free online panel talk on the 20th May, 5pm. It is described as "an insightful talk exploring why creativity and the arts are essential to wellbeing, and how to expand access to creative arts initiatives". Small headshots of the panel speakers appear in circles, including Dr Jess Bone from our research group.

Coming up later this month... Senior Research Fellow Dr Jess Bone will be joining @createcharity.bsky.social's expert panel to discuss how the creative arts can improve wellbeing 🧠

📅 Tuesday 20 May
⏰ 5.00pm-5.45pm
💻 Online

Learn more & get your FREE ticket: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/create-con...

Your space. Your voice. Time to write! New to journaling? Expert diarist? Keen to give writing a go? Just curious? Let's get writing together. Everyone is welcome!

Returning after #paternity leave I'm grateful to run another #writing for #wellbeing #workshop with @brainstrust.bsky.social this Wednesday - for people affected by brain tumours to explore the potential of expressive writing. There are still tickets left www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/your-space...

Important research on #creative #health from @ncch.bsky.social this #creativity #wellbeing week
www.culturehealthandwellbeing.org.uk/news/general...
Online events on creative activities as health interventions.
'Creative Health' may sound obscure, but it's vital to wellbeing as our population ages

We have nearly 300 events for Creativity and Wellbeing Week 2025 🎉
Here are some of the curated events happening online and nationally- whether you're a creative health practitioner or a regional organisation, there's something for everyone 💜
creativityandwellbeing.org.uk/curated-even...

Music therapy reduces agitation and need for medication in 67% of people with dementia. An arts-on-prescription project has shown a 37% drop in GP consultation rates. This week is #creativity and #wellbeing week www.culturehealthandwellbeing.org.uk/news/general... Low cost #health interventions

Our health and care needs can shape our stories. They need not define or determine them. Mum, who died aged 50 of cancer, and Dad, who has dementia and is in his late seventies, have appeared yet again in a recurring dream I've been having. In the dream, they're unwell.

Our #health and #care needs can shape our #stories. They need not define or determine them linkedin.com/pulse/our-he... My philosophy driving this Saturday's @londonlitlab.bsky.social
workshop on #writing our #healthcare #story londonlitlab.co.uk/course/writi... #WritingCommunity #NHS #write

"Trauma Makes Us Live in the Past" - Bessel van der Kolk on what Trauma Does to the Mind. YouTube video by How To Academy

Very helpful on #trauma and #health www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJM-... New material from Bessel van der Kolk

Sussex-wide campaign asks: ‘How Are You Really Feeling?’

How are you really feeling? An innovative new campaign has today launched in Sussex to encourage people to look after their mental wellbeing over the festive period.

#mentalhealth #support #howareyoureallyfeeling

www.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk/about-us/new...

Finding Our Perspective: Writing Health and Care Stories - London Lit Lab This workshop is a safe space to begin exploring, and if you feel comfortable, expressing your individual health or care story.

Just 1 week to go until the workshop @londonlitlab.bsky.social and I are running on #writing our #health & #care #stories Bookings here www.londonlitlab.co.uk/course/writi... With an #NHS plan being consulted on, now is a good time to share our #story in #healthcare #socialcare and as #carers

At the @carers-uk.bsky.social Share and Learn sessions on #storytelling, we've chatted through permission to share our #story This Friday, we talk through our #wellbeing as we tell our #stories There are places left - we'd love to see you there if you are a #carer us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Finding Our Perspective: Writing Health and Care Stories - London Lit Lab This workshop is a safe space to begin exploring, and if you feel comfortable, expressing your individual health or care story.

1 week to go until our @londonlitlab.bsky.social
Workshop on #writing our #health & #care stories be it our experiences of #healthcare #socialcare being #disabled by society or being a #carer Come to express your #story on your terms londonlitlab.co.uk/course/writi... #NHS #WritingCommmunity #write

December has a forced & odd time pressure. We are trying to secure support for Dad, 2 months after discharge. All the timelines compressed; more intense due to Christmas. Not blaming Christmas, but #socialcare is so severely lacking ...Not once seems a thought in Starmer's missions or milestones

Still a few tickets available for this brilliant workshop with Andrew! Details below

I have a #mentalillness & have lived with it for 23 years. What else explains my #story? A great deal! We are more than our #health | #care needs need not define us. We will #write all this and more at my new @londonlitlab.bsky.social workshop on Dec 14th #NHS www.londonlitlab.co.uk/course/writi...

December can be such a time of profound unease & challenge, especially if we feel #alone Our @londonlitlab.bsky.social workshop on Dec 14th provides a community space to #write & express perhaps how we #feel if we are affected by #health & #care issues www.londonlitlab.co.uk/course/writi... #NHS

Do you live with chronic health issues or care for someone who does? Come along to this workshop to find your voice and your story

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25 years ago today, Mum was told her cancer was terminal. Shatteringly awful. There are many views on the #assisteddying bill today; I hold views but realise how sensitive a topic it is. What I do hope for, 1/4 century later, is much better #endoflife care & even in #cancercare too. Remembering Mum