This large, highly collaborative five-year programme aims to examine how creative practice in the arts and humanities can promote the kinds of connectedness and reciprocity that support ‘mutual recovery’ in terms of mental health and wellbeing.
Creative practice (such as the visual arts, music, drama and storytelling) could be a powerful tool for bringing together people with mental health needs, informal carers and health, social care and education personnel.
This project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, marks a radical shift in vision that could generate new pathways for transforming these often discrete groups of people into egalitarian, appreciative and substantively connected communities – resilient communities of mutual hope, compassion and solidarity.
Find out more about this project on the Research Councils UK and International Health Humanities Network websites.