Archive for the “Creative arts” category
Synapse – fresh connections in mental health
Synapse is a group of mental health service users who come together to consider alternative methods of maintaining and enhancing mental wellbeing, offering mutual support and friendship. To encourage participants in the group to explore creative ways of relaxing through arts, crafts and singing and …
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Stepping out at the Womens Activity Centre
The Women’s Activity Centre (WAC) provides a culturally sensitive environment, where women can take part in daily activity sessions, socialise with others and find out more about health and wellbeing. The stepping out project seeks to engage with women, mainly but not exclusively from the …
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Olympic jabadao sessions and beyond
The Trust’s mental health physiotherapy team in partnership with Barnsley Independent Alzheimer’s and Dementia Support (BIADS), have been running weekly jabadao sessions in blocks of 10 for local people in Barnsley who have dementia. Jabadao encourages movement, communication and activity in a person centred way, …
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Mind, music, movement
This project engages with individuals aged 14+ with a physical and/ or learning disability and their families to create a series of storytelling performances using music and movement. Working with participants, Manasamitra, a Dewsbury based arts organisation, firstly collect stories of interest to those taking part and …
Creative exchange digital media project
The digital media project, ‘Creative exchange’, enables staff to use digital technology to engage service users in therapeutic activity in community services and inpatient wards. The project aims to introduce the use of digital media equipment at the Trust in a creative and accessible way, …
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Arts and crafts group
This group utilises arts and crafts to encourage people experiencing mental health difficulties to engage in activity and express their thoughts and feelings in a creative manner – through art as well as words. The group undertakes a range of activities and is currently focusing on …
Barnsley Independent Alzheimer’s and Dementia Support (BIADS) taster sessions
Barnsley Independent Alzheimer’s and Dementia Support (BIADS) have organised and run taster sessions for people with dementia, who are using services on inpatient wards and in the community, their carers and staff, which explore creative activities and the impact these can have on mental and physical wellbeing. …
Arts (dance) on prescription
Working alongside Action Space Mobile this project invites people to attend 20 sessions that explore how music and movement can help people in their recovery and boost their mental wellbeing. Sessions include breath work, movement, confidence building games, relaxation techniques, individual reflection and group work. Each …
Art and wellbeing sessions
A series of art and wellbeing sessions, led by mental health community development worker, Roya Pourali, have been engaging women and children from BME communities in Barnsley in artistic activity. The sessions, which were run weekly, taught 21 women and a man from nine different …
Alive and kicking workshops
Barnsley-based Qdos Creates – one of Yorkshire’s leading providers of dance theatre – delivered a series of dance-based activity sessions to highlight the benefits that people with dementia can experience by taking part in this type of activity. The ‘alive and kicking’ sessions were delivered …