Art For Wellbeing Certificate Course

The Art For Wellbeing Certificate Course is a self-paced, online course in how to use art to boost wellbeing and mental health. It uses a method called Paint Your Mind, developed during a project funded by an Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice grant. This highlights five building blocks, all equally important. Together they explore how to use art to root us in life, to ground us when we struggle, to express how we feel, to absorb us in the moment, and to connect us in community.

The course begins with an introductory unit, exploring how and why art is so beneficial. Each of the five units which follow focus a different building block in turn, with an overview of that approach, questions to consider, suggestions of flexible ideas to use in practice, and two art activity ideas with example images.

The Art For Wellbeing Certificate course is aimed at:

  • counsellors
  • therapists
  • wellbeing practitioners
  • life coaches
  • creative health practitioners
  • mental health workers
  • activity providers
  • holistic or complementary therapists
  • artists
  • art teachers
  • art students
  • community group leaders or volunteers
  • interested individuals

It is suitable whether you want to start using art for wellbeing in your work or already do so but would like to explore different possibilities.

The course should take around 9 hours at the most to complete. On completion of a short online test questionnaire at the end of the course you will receive a digital certificate. Study in your own time.

Course Units:

  1. Paint Your Mind: Introductory Unit
  2. Root
  3. Ground
  4. Express
  5. Absorb
  6. Connect

Learning Outcomes:

Consider how different art styles and genres can be used to address diverse issues

Explore how to use art and creativity to boost wellbeing and mental health

Develop a varied understanding of the diverse ways creativity can help

Gain a range of practical and flexible ideas for sharing art in different settings or situations

Opportunity Type

Training

Contact Name

Isobel Murdoch

Contact Email

medleymusicartnature@outlook.com

Website

https://medley.live/paint-your-mind

Start Date

13th January 2025

Closing Date

31st May 2025