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Group sessions offering people a mindful, expressive, joyful and relaxing approach to art-making that gives rise to a sense of positive wellbeing.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

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I run ‘Wellbeing Arts’ and ‘Creative Health’ sessions across Bristol and North Somerset for adults, and children and young people. \u00a0These sessions form part of the region’s Social Prescribing<\/em> offering and are sometimes known as Arts-on-Referral \u2013<\/em> whereby people are ‘referred’ by their GP, a Link Worker, or a mental health professional into a closed creative group that has therapeutic benefits. \u00a0Some of these groups take ‘self-referrals’.<\/p>\n

I am currently facilitating the following groups:<\/p>\n

creativeWorks<\/a> at Arnolfini, creativeShift (adults)
\nWellbeing Pottery<\/a>, Bristol Folk House (adults)
\nWellbeing Pottery<\/a>, Southmead Development Trust (children)
\ncreativeRoots<\/a>, Backwell, North Somerset, creativeShift (young people)<\/p>\n

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What is Arts-on-Referral?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The National Centre for Creative Health has created this booklet<\/a>, which gives clear and concise information about the different ways Arts-on-Referral can help different people, and why Creative Health Care matters to us all<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

People access Social Prescribing services for all sorts of reasons and will be referred into a group for support with their emotional, social or physical wellbeing. \u00a0Participants might be struggling with one or a number of issues, and these may include bereavement, a transition from hospital, recovery from addiction, ongoing or chronic mental health or physical health conditions, loneliness and isolation, or homelessness.<\/p>\n

Working as a group, people enjoy the structure and gentle pace of these sessions, and find that they have positive experiences and outcomes as a result of learning new skills and taking part in something that is joyful, regular, relaxing, creative, and process-led. \u00a0Research also shows this: where people experience improved symptoms, the risk of developing further or new symptoms is reduced, and waiting lists for services are shortened.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

If you would like to find out about the groups I run or any others taking place in region please get in touch<\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column width=”2\/5″][vc_gallery interval=”3″ images=”5487,5545″ img_size=”large”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/5″][vc_column_text] Group sessions offering people a mindful, expressive, joyful and relaxing approach to art-making that gives rise to a sense of positive wellbeing.   I run ‘Wellbeing Arts’ and ‘Creative Health’ sessions across Bristol and North Somerset for adults, and children and young people. \u00a0These sessions form part of the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5099,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5292","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessbaum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessbaum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessbaum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessbaum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessbaum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5292"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/jessbaum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5546,"href":"https:\/\/jessbaum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5292\/revisions\/5546"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessbaum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessbaum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}