Course summary

The recognised areas of benefit for arts and wellbeing initiatives are significant in breadth, ranging from mental health, trauma, special educational needs, addiction, dementia, as well as to ideas linked to more generalised civic wellbeing. Such initiatives have been accompanied by a significant growth in employment opportunities, ranging from specialist art/music/movement therapists through to senior appointments in national, regional, and local government, health, and educational organisations. This course will provide you with the knowledge and understanding of the practices and histories of arts and wellbeing interventions; as well as equipping you with the knowledge and critical understanding of the role and function of creativity for wellbeing. It will equip you with the necessary skills for project management of arts and wellbeing interventions and the processes by which they can be created, realised, managed, distributed and documented to benefit many sectors of society – the elderly; the disabled; children in poverty; people in recovery from substance abuse and so on. This course will also provide students with the relevant digital and technical skills needed to develop sophisticated approaches to arts and wellbeing interventions.