About the Training Workshop.
This is a full day (10am - 5pm) and in person workshop aimed at supporting artists and arts workers to gain a foundational knowledge and understanding of the creative health sector. The session takes place at our colourful studio in Peckham, South London, and touches on 4 key sections throughout the day.
Understanding the Creative Health Landscape.
Creative Health Project Design.
How to Approach Funding.
Care (for Self & Others) in Creative Health Work.
Read on for more information about the specific content covered.
The session is limited to 7 participants to ensure that there is ample time for questions and generous explorations in a small group. The day is a mixture of knowledge sharing from the facilitator Daniel Regan and creative activities to help explore and digest information.
Who is it for?
The workshop is ideal for people wanting to gain a deeper understanding of creative health, get a sense of what to consider when designing their own project, how to approach writing funding applications, and how to ensure that care (for self and others) is embedded into working practices.
You might at the beginning stages of starting out in creative health, or have a bit of experience but want to brush up on your skills surrounding designing projects and looking for funding. The day is designed to be as accessible as possible with plenty of time to ask individual questions with generous sharing.
What the Day Covers.
See below for a breakdown of what will be covered throughout the day, with plenty of time for specific questions.
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Gaining a foundational understanding of what creative health is.
Understanding the spectrum of creative health work: different contexts & types of work.
Understanding social prescribing and connections between cultural and health sectors.
Recommended practical and interpersonal skills for creative health work.
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Exploring a number of considerations when designing projects:
With specific community groups or demographics.
In specific environments.
Disability, access and inclusion.
Whether activities and design of projects are culturally appropriate.
Complexity of lived experience (our own and/or others).
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Understanding the difference between certain types of grants that may benefit your practice;
Focusing on specific types of bids, including Arts Council England’s grants;
How to clearly and concisely describe your work and what this funding will help you to achieve;
Understanding how to budget, pay yourself and consider hidden costs;
Considering your own and other’s access costs;
Looking at strategic partnerships with organisations;
Understanding what public engagement is.
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A chance to reflect on how complex creative health work can be, and the impact it can have on our own wellbeing.
Identifying types of support that may be appropriate to support you in the work that you do.
Considering eco systems of care to ensure that everyone that works on creative health projects are taken care of.
About Daniel Regan.
Daniel Regan is an artist and creative health consultant - and founder of Arts & Health Hub. For over 20 years Daniel has worked across the creative health sector in a number of roles, including as a professional freelance artist, facilitator, consultant, mentor, and Director of an NHS arts charity in primary care. He has carved his own career path as someone working in varied roles within the field and being strategic about how to develop multiple and sustainable income streams.
Daniel’s wide-ranging experience includes:
Successfully fundraising almost £1m in funding for his own artistic practice and organisations that he has worked with and for. His funding successes come from numerous project grants and Developing Your Creative Practice grants from Arts Council England, the National Lottery Community Fund, numerous trusts and foundations, local councils and private sponsors. His grants have ranged from small artist bursaries through to substantially larger and long term project grants.
Providing consultancy on disability, access, inclusion, lived experience and ethical project design for organisations, funders and regulating bodies such as Baring Foundation, Royal College of Psychiatrists, British Association of Art Therapists and more.
Facilitating a large number of creative and socially engaged projects across a spectrum of environments and community groups, including with people with mental health difficulties, those experiencing homelessness and young people within community and clinical environments.
Contributing to discourse on how individuals and organisations can embed practices of care into their ways of working in order to ensure people are taken care of when delivering creative health work.
What People Say about Working with Daniel.
“I commissioned Daniel to deliver a session on Participant and Self Care in Creative Health for a group of creative practitioners in Medway. Daniel was a joy to work with from start to finish. He’s super organised and efficient in his preparation. He communicates throughout the process and genuinely cares that he delivers what you need. The session was so interesting and valuable to the practitioners, especially hearing about Daniel’s lived experience as an artist and facilitator, and how important boundaries are for himself and for the people he works with. They were all buzzing afterwards!”
“Daniel has delivered artist-led workshops at QUEERCIRCLE & is a valued member of our Queering Creative Health network. His expertise in thinking through practices of care - in life as in work - has helped us to reflect more deeply as an organisation on how we might work differently within our team, our public and artists more broadly. We prize Daniel as a critical friend who brings a lot of humour, wisdom and insight to our process.”
“Daniel and I have worked together in a few ways at Bethlem Gallery. Daniel is open, organised, thoughtful and a joy to work with. He brings gentle challenge as part of his practice as an artist and facilitator, and has a knack for setting up spaces in a way that puts people at ease. ”
The Venue.
The session takes place at our colourful studio in Peckham, South London. The studio is bright with morning and afternoon light beaming in through both sides of the building throughout the day. If the sun is shining we may even spend part of the day on the roof terrace in the warm.
The studio is 10mins walk from Peckham Rye station (zone 2), served by the London Overground (Windrush Line), Thameslink and Southern trains from Victoria and London Bridge (10-12mins), and plenty of buses.
The studio is on the first floor. Unfortunately the building does not have a lift and is not wheelchair accessible (we hate how difficult it is to find an affordable and accessible space in London).
Cost.
£75
Workshop Questions & Answers.
See below for some answers to questions you may have. If you have other questions that aren’t answered below, email info@artsandhealthhub.org.
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No, this is a solely in person workshop. You can keep an eye out on our Instagram or sign up to our mailing list to find out if this workshop will run online in future.
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No. You should attend the whole day.
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This session is not funded by any external funds and in order to cover the costs the price is fixed. It is important that we compensate facilitators properly.
The cost is already very low in comparison to this level of training in other sectors.
If you are seriously interested in how this workshop will support your development, get in touch with us by emailing info@artsandhealthhub.org, describing your situation, to see what we might be able to offer.
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Refreshments (a selection of teas, coffee etc) .
Creative materials.
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Bring a notebook or device to make your own notes.
Your own lunch (there is a small oven to heat something but no microwave) & snacks.
There are also local supermarkets or restaurants to get something in the lunch break (45mins) - Daniel can recommend his favourites!
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You will be provided with a link to slides that is active for 3 months, alongside a resource for any follow up links / resources mentioned throughout the day.
This will be sent to you a week after the session.
Bookings & Refund Policy
Tickets to this workshop are non-refundable. Arts & Health Hub is a small non-profit organisation without on-going support for core costs / staff. We have to calculate costs for each event to make it financially viable for the organisation and those delivering the work, meaning that if each space isn't filled we may not be able to run some events or make it financially viable to deliver the event. If we have a waitlist we’ll do our best to ensure we can facilitate someone taking your spot and if so, issue a refund - minus a £10 charge for administration time & costs.
This event requires at least 4 people to sign up to make it financially viable to deliver. If there are not enough people signed up 72hrs before the start of the workshop, the event will be cancelled and the full cost of your ticket will be refunded. You will be notified of this by email. Hopefully that won’t happen!