Mental Health

In SW England over 600k working age people are living with common mental health challenges.

We partner with Devon Recovery Learning Community, a Recovery College provided by Devon Partnership NHS Trust, to provide FREE courses for people in mental health recovery. Anyone living in Devon can self-refer and book.

We are actively looking to work with businesses, to reach a greatly increased number of people, earlier and therefore more effectively.

Contracts and grants enable workshops, co-creation of artworks, and training about art for health.

How to Book

Most of our publicly available courses are booked through the DRLC website, or by calling their office. Bookings traditionally opened in mid-February and mid-August for a six month series of courses. Since the pandemic and the addition of online workshops, courses are added on a more ongoing basis.

Project-based workshops also are at times bookable at our Eventbrite page.

Not Arts Therapy

Our courses are not therapeutic interventions – they are creative ones – that create space for participants to process with the support of talented artists. Whatever the vulnerable life moment, creativity taps into powerful aspects of our neurological systems to make change positive.

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Co-tutoring

Co-production is a key value and defining principle of Recovery Education. All of the courses we offer with DRLC are shaped and delivered by two people who, combined, will bring: relevant lived experience of mental health challenge, artistic and arts facilitation expertise, and an understanding of recovery values and principles and creative wellbeing benefits.

We always use a co-production approach, but it could be we are co-producing with you!