Collective Arts
~ Creating well-being since 1999
Based in South West London, Collective Arts is a diverse and established creative arts organisation working with special interest groups, schools, galleries and businesses. Our mission is to deliver creative, arts-based interventions and programming that support communication, leadership, resilience and wellbeing.
Creative Wellbeing Workshops
Our workshops take a proactive approach to wellbeing through creative activity with each project designed to meet the unique requirements of the audience. By focusing on process rather than product, these workshops remove the pressure to “make art”, allowing participants to re-discover the stress-releasing properties of the creative process and engage in flow.
Here, playful and metaphoric activity is used strategically to explore and enhance personal wellbeing and support resilience. This flexible strategy can be adapted to suit a wide variety of populations with art making providing a proactive microcosm of positive experience (risk-taking and working through frustration, challenge and failure to reach personal success) that can be generalised to other areas of work and life.
Creative wellbeing workshops can also be designed to include Purposeful Creative Activity (PCA), a process, developed by Collective Arts, that channels creative activity to meet goal-directed objectives. Using visual techniques, image-based strategies and clear directives, PCA provides a flexible and diverse communication tool that augments language and uses images to trigger unconsciously held insight and connections. The visual nature of this process enables goals, ideas, projects or work-related challenges to be made ‘concrete’ allowing them to be collectively seen, explored and understood. PCA provides an enlightening, time efficient and enjoyable process, which is non-dependant on artistic skill and can be adapted to suit a wide range of issues (see http://www.changeboard.com/
*In all of our work we embrace the definition, as highlighted by the Foresight Report (2008), of Mental wellbeing as "a dynamic state in which the individual is able to develop their potential, work productively and creatively, build strong and positive relationships with others and contribute to their community.”
Collective Arts offers a wide variety of additional activities and programmes including: Expressive Arts Workshops, large-scale Community Art Installations, community engagement projects, creative team-development activities, art therapy and micro-conferences.
Programmes are developed and led by an experienced team of insured and CRB checked Artists, Workshop Facilitators, Life Coaches and Therapists. Our range of client expertise includes children, youth, families, adults, mental health, special needs, at-risk and vulnerable populations, breast cancer survivors, individual employees and private and public sector teams.
News and Events:
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Follow this link to read Collective Arts' article in the May issue of Changeboard Magazine on Collaborative Creativity and Leadership http://www.changeboard.com/
Art & Soul, "Colour Burst" Exhibition March 22 to June 10, 2012 Orleans House Stables, Gallery, Riverside, Twickenham, TW1 3DJ, 0208 831-6000
Grant funded, expressive arts workshops for individuals with or recovering from breast cancer, The Haven, Fulham, London
These sessions are designed to support positive wellbeing and unlock hidden talents by reacquainting participants with the joys of creative expression. Using playful artistic techniques, sessions are not dependant on artistic skill, but rather a willingness to engage in creative discovery and exploration. By focusing on process rather than product, workshops remove the 'pressure to make good art' - often leading to pleasing and meaningful results.
Dates: Thursday March 22, April 19, May 3, 31 and June 21, 2012 from 10:30 - 1:00. The Haven, Effie Road, Fulham, SW6 1TB. To book please ring 020 7384 0099. This programme is generously supported by the Corinne Burton Memorial Trust.
Visit this link to see 'What makes me happy' an animated film commissioned by the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames http://www.makeanimation.org/
Art & Soul receives £10,000 grant from Awards for All to continue delivering expressive arts programming for adults with mental health issues. The programme will be based out of Orleans House Gallery, Riverside, Twickenham. Please contact Collective Arts for more details.
The Collective Arts Blog
Supporting Collaborative Learning through Purposeful Creative Activity (PCA) http://tinyurl.com/
Employee Wellbeing; using images to transform feelings of stress and failure http://collectivearts.typepad.com/
HR Directors Take Note, Kate Middleton Chooses Art Therapy http://collectivearts.typepad.com/
The Power of Language, Visuals and the Ownership of Wellbeing http://collectivearts.typepad.com/
Re-framing the UK riots; lessons from positive psychology
http://collectivearts.typepad.com/
Breast Cancer and Well-being http://collectivearts.typepad.com/
Status Makes us Happy
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