Welcome…
Our purpose is to improve quality of life, inclusion and joy in care and community settings.
Creativity In Care offer workshops, courses, and consultancy, to promote mental well-being and positive connections with or without words. Puppetry and arts combined with person-centred principles have a powerful and positive impact on interactions and communication.
Regardless of diagnosis, perceived ability, language or memory, – people have emotions, imagination, humour, sensitivities and individual needs. Creativity In Care enables us to find different, and often uplifting ways to re-connect, beyond the constraints of spoken or remembered words.
Feed the birds
Creativity is all-inclusive. Participants include people with experiences of dementia; people recovering from mental ill-health; people who use learning disability services; home carers, care staff and members of the general public.
Positive interactions raise self-esteem and joyfulness. Inspired staff and carers light up environments, and people feel better. Creative communication enables people to make meaningful connections reducing isolation or frustration, and increasing a sense of having a life worth living.
Uplifting connections
Our current events can be found under events. Our services can be found under Services – (keep it simple). This includes the 3-month programmes for creativity and dementia, and for creative mental well-being. Plus pages for our mental health awareness days; our workshops, talks and this year’s exhibition. There is a growing section for carers, with dilemmas and responses.
For information about my writings, (conference papers and current book) please go to Writings. There are separate pages for the creative minds (dementia) guidebook, and the Stories, twigs and bones (mental health) book.
Please also see our exhibitions information. In 2012 we are touring aHighland’s mental health exhibition ‘See Me Now’, with workshops. In 2011 it was the Angus MacPhee exhibition
We have been talking with individual carers over the years and have a series of creative and supportive workshops for carers of people with dementia.
Creativity In Care is based on years of practical research using puppetry, performance and visual arts. The work is designed to be used by carers, staff and relatives to promote inclusive care and improve quality of life. With thanks to all the participants, carers, staff and everyone who supports the work. We’re in it together.
Note about the images: we are grateful to participants’ kind permissions to use their photographs over the years, which are copyrighted to KMarshall for this website.
Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. We tweet 2 or 3 times a week, so please join us there where we are called creativitycare.
We are a partner with the Highland Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival
Creativity In Care is a social enterprise – initial support from Scotland Unltd and Millennium Awards Trust.
May for Remembering The Person, Dawn Chorus, Smile, & Deaf Awareness
Our exhibition is supported by:
