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.
Creative Wellbeing Workshops
Our most popular programme takes a proactive approach to well-being 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.
Here, playful and metaphoric activity is used strategically to explore and enhance personal well-being – the art making providing a microcosm of experience and personal success that can be generalised to other areas of life. This flexible strategy is appropriate to a wide variety of populations where ‘purposeful creative play’ is used to generate opportunities for personal insight whilst providing a fresh and vibrant language for communication.
Completed work provides a memorable, visual symbol which not only references positive experience, but also self and group understanding.
Creative Wellbeing Workshops are transformative, pre-emptive and carefully designed to build positive psychological resources and support experiences of flow. They meet the criteria of research-based evidence which finds that the most successful *mental wellbeing interventions are enjoyable, meaningful and empowering.
*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, employees and private and public sector teams.
Collective Arts Blog
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/
The Culture Show - Art Therapy with returned soldiers http://www.bbc.co.uk/
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
http://collectivearts.typepad.com/
News and Events
Collective Arts Autumn Programme:
Expressive arts workshops to support family wellbeing, 2:00-4:30, Orleans House Gallery, Riverside Twickenham, TW1 3DJ. Grant funded including materials. Ring 020 8831 6000 to book.
- Sunday 11th September
- Sunday 18th September
- Sunday 25th September
- Sunday 13th November
- Sunday 20th November
- Sunday 27th November
- Friday November 18th, 25th and December 2nd.
Visit this link to see 'What makes me happy' a animated film commissioned by the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames http://www.makeanimation.org/
