Read our posts about Creativity

07Dec

5 Key Benefits of Teamwork and Collaboration

Dennis Relojo-Howell

career, creativity

Work

Dennis Relojo outlines the proven benefits of teamwork and collaboration, within or outside the workplace.
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28Aug

Mindfulness and Drawing

Wendy Ann

creativity, meditation, mindfulness, self, wellbeing

Soul

Wendy Ann Greenhalgh, author of Mindfulness and the Art of Drawing, on the value of mindful drawing: a natural, creative activity for anyone to enjoy.
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04Aug

I Want to End Stigma Around Mental Health

Fixers

creativity, depression, society, student, therapy, university

Mind

Naomi Gilchrist made a book about mental ilness, with the help of Fixers, a charity dedicated to giving young people a voice.
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23Jul

Therapy and Storytelling

Lucy Beresford

books, creativity, culture, therapy, travel

Therapists

Therapist Lucy Beresford talks about finding her voice and the voice of her characters in her new novel, Invisible Threads.
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21Jul

Creative Writing is my Therapy

Leanne Brookes

anxiety, creativity, depression, self, student, wellbeing

Mind

Mental health blogger Leanne Brookes how creative writing acts as a form of therapy.
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06Mar

Healing Music

Terry Snow

creativity, music, wellbeing

Soul

Music often strikes a chord with us deep down, even if we don't understand why. Terry Snow explores the healing power of music composition and listening.
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27Feb

Expressive Writing for Mental Wellbeing

Dennis Relojo-Howell

anxiety, creativity, depression, wellbeing

Soul

Expressive writing , sometimes called written emotional disclosure, is a fancy term for such a simple act: expressing oneself through writing. Most of us have done it at one point in our lives through keeping a journal or a diary. But of course, with modern age, it is now being done with a keyboard. To some extent, keeping a personal blog can be considered as a form of expressive writing. Tracing the roots of expressive writing Expressive writing is a therapy introduced by Pennebaker and Beall in the late 1980s. Their pioneering work (Pennebaker & Beall, 1986)...
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07Feb

Craftivist Collective: Craft for Wellbeing

Welldoing

creativity, culture, wellbeing

Soul

As the name suggests, Craftivist Collective, founded in 2009, is a movement which seeks to combine craft and activism. Their aim is to provoke awareness and discussion of issues surrounding local and global poverty and injustice. The World Health Organisation includes “contributing to society” as one of their paths to wellbeing. This was the focus of the most recent Craftivist exhibition, which was held in Aldgate East in London. The project, titled #wellMAKING, was the culmination of more than 50 ‘stitch-ins’ held across the nation. It’s goal was to...
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04Feb

Writing Music to Overcome Depression

Leanne Brookes

creativity, depression, music, wellbeing

Mind

One afternoon I had a moment of clarity and wrote all of the words, in one prolific sitting, to a song for my Dad. He moved to America when I was four and I dragged a heavy anchor of anger and disappointment behind me most of my life as a result. I describe in the piano ballad how I was confused and missed him as a child, felt that he didn't know me as a teenager, as an adult I needed him and finally in the present day, I forgave him. Along with a very long letter, I sent this song, which I called ’The Gift’, to my Dad in the mail. It was the closure that I...
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23Jan

Culture Tip: PJ Harvey's 'Recording in Progress'

Camilla Nicholls

creativity, culture

Soul

PJ Harvey’s collaboration with Artangel and Somerset House, Recording in Progress, is an extraordinary insight not just into the recording of music but the making of it too. It is probably one of the most absorbing cultural experiences in London right now. An ‘architectural installation’ by Something & Son with one-way glazing allows groups of up to 45 people a 45 minute session watching PJ Harvey, her musicians, engineers and producers record her ninth album. The slight figure of Harvey stands beneath a bespoke coat of arms engrossed in her work. Her...
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