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 costs £25. It should take around 9 hours to complete in your own time - simply sign up within the dates provided. To sign up or to learn more, go to https://medley.live/paint-your-mind