creative health nerd / OT / artist / fan of cats 🏳️🌈 all views my own.
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Joined October 2017
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Just tried my first VR creative health experience - Soul Paint. Stepping into a virtual world of bodymapping which invites you to paint in 3D, with different textures & colours, to explore the mind body connection through creativity. Amazing stuff!
#ACEFunded #CreativeHealth
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Thanks to @Hospital_Rooms for facilitating 2 amazing Digital Art School workshops for Occupational Therapists and Activity Coordinators at @MaudsleyNHS today!! We can’t wait for the next term to put our new skills into practice! #HospitalRooms #SLaMOTs 💚
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There is a lot that health policy-makers can learn from artists – the way they see, understand and analyse the health and care system and use the tools of their trade to explain and seek to change it.
Ruth Roberton explores in her blog. kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and…
Genuinely saddened by the loss of David Lynch. He was such a champion of the arts - and making work that doesn't need to make sense. He was so loved in our house that our hallway is decorated like the black lodge.
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👀 Is it you we're looking for?! 📢 Our Chair of Trustees @OTinretirement will be standing down in Oct 2025 after serving the maximum 2 terms in office. We are actively recruiting for our new Chair *NOW* to allow for a period of transition 👇👇👇 peridotpartners.co.uk/jobs/c… If you are an #OT looking to join a dynamic team who are passionate about #occupationaltherapy, then we want to hear from you!
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This @FrontierEcon (w/@UCL_SBB research) study commissioned by @DCMS finds that the health & wellbeing benefits of cultural engagement contribute up to £8bn/yr to wider society through improved quality of life, healthcare savings & increased productivity
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Occupational Therapy Mental Health Conference Update
I've asked an events company for some figures and here they are....
Liverpool February 2026 - To do a 2 day conference with 2 nights accommodation, an evening event the middle day and food throughout it would be £495 per person
Started the new year right, with a hoodening and wassail in the village of Sandwich. Everyone's bushels of apples have been well and truly blessed.
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I have been working to connect #OccupationalTherapists students to diverse placements in creative organisations as part of their training in Sussex Places. Bognor Makerspace in West Sussex has resident OT in Wellbeing team.
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From reducing loneliness to aiding recovery from illness, engaging in creativity and culture is proven to improve our health and wellbeing.
But new research undertaken by @DCMS is the first in the UK to explore the financial benefits.
Read the report👇
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@JemChanOT 3rd webinar #ArtofNursing. This time it’s lived experience. rcn.org.uk/news-and-events/e…
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A new All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Creative Health launched on 26 Nov. Chaired by Dr Simon Opher, MP for Stroud & a longtime supporter of creative health. At its first meeting, the APPG elected Officers & set the agenda for the year ahead.
ncch.org.uk/blog/all-party-p…
Emma Ansell-Meehan talking about the importance of not only measuring the impact of creative health through a set of clinical measures
'How do we capture hope, joy, resilience and connection?'
#GMcreativehealth
Sam Elliot of @boltoncouncil talking about the incredible value of libraries at #GMcreativehealth
"Libraries are places of trust, solace, entertainment and learning, palaces for the people in an unequitable world"
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Are you a #CreativeHealth Practitioner working in Mental Health and Wellbeing?
The Creative Health Communication Framework is a new resource designed to help you articulate your impact and navigate the complexities of engaging with diverse audiences.
ncch.org.uk/blog/the-creativ…
Excited to be at the launch of #GMcreativehealth place partnership, funded by @ace_national
Bringing together multiple partners, supporting communities to live well through creative health initiatives, including developing motor skills early years and supporting unpaid carers
Great opening to #GMcreativehealth with Company Chameleon who's artistic director spoke about the unique power of dance in mental health
'it's an opportunity to express your internal world in a way that words can't'
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Occupational therapists are you interested in sharing
ideas for an OT exhibition?! @JemChanOT @ElizabethCasso1 & I are working to curate just such an exhibition! Share your thoughts and please share this post!: forms.office.com/e/5aGUi83Tw…
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Apologies, everyone 😳 We are aware that there has been a technical issue with our newsletter subscription page, but we are delighted to say that this is now working again! 👍😀 You can subscribe here 👇👇👇 elizabethcasson.org.uk/subsc…
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Don't miss @drlisataylor who will be speaking in the Keynote Theatre at 3.30pm today on the #EACHOT project 😀 and, even better, some lucky attendees will receive a copy of the #ElizabethCasson biography 😉 Don't miss it!
