The Art of Wellbeing
A creative approach to staff care
This project creates a supportive space for staff to explore mental health and well-being through art-making and storytelling. We’ll experiment with creative techniques that open up conversations and celebrate the contributions of colleagues in challenging roles. Aimed at businesses seeking to foster staff well-being, we’ll use alternative tools to address feelings of invisibility, explore the balance between strength and vulnerability, and reflect on personal responses to crisis. Participants will be invited to share their stories, fostering an inclusive dialogue around well-being and celebrating the resilience and creativity of those who make a difference every day.
Course outcomes:
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To dismantle stereotypes and raise awareness of the job and its pressures
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To develop meaningful representation around underrepresented issues​
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To build team moral and build community
Skills gained:
What you will learn:
Morning session
. Introducing some ways the stories have been told (inadequately) followed by discussion on what is lacking... what would you add, change, omit, agree with, disagree with? Look at some experimental artistic strategies of communicating. How can these be put to use?
Meet your instructor:
Dr. Sharon Young​
Creative Lead for Future Skills
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Dr Sharon Young is an artist and lecturer at Glasgow School of Art working on feminist strategies of subversion through multi-disciplinary approaches to image and text. She is interested in visual representations of language and voice especially around ideas of gendered and marginalized experiences. She works with photography, moving image, letterpress and performance but is always open to trying new mediums.
FAQs:
. This course is ideal for a business or company that wants to put their staff through training.
Who is this course for?
. Writing Prompts session with focus on the first person experience. sharing stories, editing, feedback and collating
Afternoon session
. A passion for travel and sketchbooking / journaling
What should participants bring?
. All the courses available on Glasgow School of Art's Future Skills are eligible for a certificate of completion. Participants will also be able to walk away with a badge to add to their social channels to show they completed a course.
Will I get a certification for this course?
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