Museum Education: Wellbeing in Museums

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This is a case study showcase about Wellness Through Art, one of my latest wellbeing and creativity projects. This is a lecture version of the lecture that I organised for the Creativity and Wellbeing week 2023, a festival organised in partnership between London Arts in Health Forum and the Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance.

In this lecture I explain the process of implementing Wellness Through Art. A 8-week project implemented at an independent charity with a dynamic space for art and events,

In this masterclass you will understand how I applied some wellbeing principles like mindfulness and breathing exercises in this museum and how they were used to draw inspiration from the collection to make insightful art pieces. The masterclass consists in the following parts:

- An introduction where I explain the context in which this project was developed

- The theory in which this project was based. This consists in a mixture of psychology and therapeutic art principles.

- The outlines of the project

- An explanation of a series of practical activities with the opportunity to take part in two of them

- The outcomes of the project

As this is a showcase lecture, there is no practical activities like in other courses, however I am very interested in hearing how you may want to take this ideas further once you finish it so please do share!