Facilitated network session

Creative Care Dorset Creativity improves health and wellbeing FACILITATED NETWORK SESSION feedback Purple group- Caroline Barnes Inspiration • DVD children, wheelchairs. Perceptions judgements. Voice, ambitions. Poem • Alex- Lord Howarth speech- holistic • BU- ideas on evaluation. Narrative.

• Life Circles DVD. Beautiful, surprised, challenge, relationships Questions • Quality and emotional safety of arts work without increased paperwork • Danger of poor quality • (Not enough engagement with CCG after Forbes session) • Funding more to learn • Fear. Smaller artists/ creative ideas people gets subsumed by big org • Whose quality are we defining/ whose interpretation- what work is funded/ happens What could the network do?

• share ideas • creating pathways • sustain the individuals within it. MEET • would be nice to hear from more participants of arts and health projects as well as the artists/ project leaders.

• Facilitate actual meetings face to face to exchange ideas but keep in touch with likeminded people • showcase projects - short films great • broker relationships with the likes of commissioning bodies • be very practical in terms of how to actually get a proposal ready for consideration • help to join forces so if there are several programmes looking at dementia and the visual arts for example connect them to become a stronger case?

Orange group- Zannah Doan Inspiration • Care settings- a song for staff to sing?

• Going to join Kathie’s song class • Alex’s talk and case studies made real connections • Fab food • Strong slice of community- appreciation of this network • So much happening!

• Life Circles film was stunning. The power of touch and humanity

Questions • how to get heard more?

• How to share our stories?

• How to ‘persuade’ ‘influence’ health care providers?

• As a commissioner, how do I know where these fab projects are so I can connect them in my locality? Arts and Health orgs- resources potential?

• AHSW supports local arts and health networks- e.g. CCD e.g. Band P setting one up- invite new health and wellbeing officer at EDDC to join • How can we enable practitioners to attend these meetings s well as the organisations?

• Mapping exercise? N.B. PDSW has map of dancers working in dance with OP Blue group- Irene Archibald Inspiration • singing=most effective at raising spirits, especially with advanced dementia • thread of life concept • Research links. Lots info • Range of energy and creativity, networking, sharing expertise • Connecting with right people. Joined up thinking. More medical professionals represented= improvement.

• Arts ideas- clay- accessible • academic/practical balance • gaps in training- what people might want • Arts and health network- not isolated. Aware of wider network- time to explore bigger picture Improvements • who to present to to plan with. Networks of arts versus social care contacts • Advocacy process. Links with health sector.

• need commissioners here- how to justify project and meet their needs Pink group- Sue Inspiration • Life Circles film • Dance • lunch • evaluation talk • BU session • singing workshop • lots of ideas for partnership work • teenagers with cystic fibrosis online connection and as ambassadors for this group Questions • Why did I eat so much pudding?

• Forbes interesting but how do we connect effectively and in partnership with HWB • How can we get to know what we don’t know?

• How can we use what we’ve done and learnt to raise skill levels for those working in care settings to use as a template. CPD and skills development.

• How can I be closely connected with arts workers as a lone worker?

Red group- Alex Coulter Inspirations

• the food- purple and pink creation • the clay workshop- new idea • colours and textures of food • the hands moving in the dance- so touching (embodied reaction) Questions • why didn’t we have evidence of more creativity in the room?

• How come I didn’t know about all the changes in health until today?

• How do we capture the energy of today and take it forward into a collaborative network.

Green group- Mike Hoskins Inspirations • meeting people • Films • Food • Dance film Questions • how do we persuade employers to release people to join this conference • how to publicise what is happening?

• breadth of work?

• raise aspiration?

• career Training?

• how to use volunteers?