From Surviving to Thriving: Building a model for sustainable practice in creativity and mental health
The Thriving Practice Model
Creativity and culture can support mental health if...
Coproduce
Understand your agenda
Don’t go it alone
Be realistic
Ask for what you need
Nurture your resilience
Coproduce
Target investment
Invest long-term
Invest beyond project delivery
Demonstrate realistic expectations
Encourage safe practice
Adapt funding processes
Model good practice
Coproduce
Match intervention to need
Support practitioners
Encourage safe practice
Help build a representative sector
Support the development of local ecologies
Model good practice
Coproduce
Support practice
Prioritise
Coproduce
Support practitioners
Encourage safe practice
Support research
Build local ecologies
Communicate
Model good practice
Artwork by Brindi created in response to the theme ‘Bravery’ during lockdown (April 2020) with Art & Soul
