Supporting Artists in Healthy Practice

Mark Webster and Kate Gant

Supporting artists in healthy practice

• What is Arts and health?

• Skills shortage in the region

• Elements of good practice

• Artists Professional Development Programme

• Making the first steps…

What is Arts and Health?

• History• Current practice• Its role in health delivery• Models of practice and delivery• Evidence base

Minding the gap: skills shortage

• The needs of the sectors• Background and training for artists• What makes a good arts and health artist?

Approaches to good practice

• Developing• Delivery• Evaluation

Developing

• Inclusive• Relevance• Value

Delivery

• Involvement• Safe• Fit for purpose

Evaluation

• Reflective• Ethical• Shared

Developing Arts for Health: Artist Professional Development Programme

• Integration of theory and practice• Practitioner based approach• The learning environment• Accreditation

Invitation to Participate

http://www.praxisartsandhealth.org.ukhttp://www.artscouncil.org.uk/

publication_archive/a-prospectus-for-arts-and-health

http://www.creativeremedies.org.ukGant, K and Bell, K. (2006) Staffordshire South Arts

for Health training audit research and consultation. Download from http://www.praxisartsandhealth.org.uk

Photo credits: Multistory artists http://www.multistory.org.uk