Online Resources
ORGANISATIONS: INFORMATION AND NETWORKS
Arts, Health and Wellbeing - the National Alliance for Arts, Health and Wellbeing is a national resource for creativity and health
Healthy, Social, Creative - Information and signposting for health professionals and others working with people affected by long-term conditions in relation to arts and creative initiatives
Arts & Health South West - Aims to raise the profile and influence the development of the Arts and Health sector across the region as well as provide information and support, including a database of practitioners and projects
South East Arts and Health - represents the arts and health sector in the South East. Provides information and support through networks
Willis Newson - Independent Arts Consultancy specialising in arts in healthcare in Bristol and the South West
ORGANISATIONS: WRITING FOR WELLBEING
National Association for Poetry Therapy (US) - information and networking in the US and beyond for Poetry Therapists and anyone interested in poetry therapy
International Federation for Biblio/Poetry Therapy - has info re Certification for Poetry Therapists
Survivors' Poetry - Poetry and mental health
Ty Newydd - National Writers’ Centre for Wales - runs Courses and Retreats
Orchard Foundation - writing for wellbeing and reflective practice: courses and tailor-made workshops
ARTS AND HEALTH
Centre for Medical Humanities Royal Free & University College Medical School
Institute for the Study of Health and Illness (USA) - courses for health professionals promoting core values of healing and creativity
Literature and Medicine - Journal of John Hopkins University Press, USA
Literature, Arts and Medicine Database - annotated works with online texts based at New York University School of Medicine
Centre for Arts & Humanities in Health & Medicine (CAHHM) - research centre based in Durham University's multidisciplinary School for Health
Creative Arts & Humanities in Healthcare (Adobe PDF) - strategic paper funded by the Nuffield Trust
Poems in the Waiting Room - poems printed for healthcentres and doctors surgeries to display in waiting rooms
ARTS WITH THERAPEUTIC APPLICATIONS
Arts Access International - international creative spaces for people on the margins
Arts For Health Cornwall & Isles Of Scilly
Dulwich Centre - independent centre in Adelaide, Australia involved in narrative therapy, community work, training, publishing and co-hosting international conferences
MENTORING
Gillie Bolton - writer, consultant, presenter
Kim Etherington - counsellor/psychotherapist, supervisor, trainer, researcher and consultant
ARTS IN HEALTH IN ACTION
Manchester Metropolitan University Arts for Health - a 3-year HM Treasury funded project aimed at strengthening the capacity of the North West Regions’, Arts and Health community through networking and training opportunities and building the evidence base as to the effectiveness of creativity, culture and the arts on health and economic outcomes
Rosetta Life - Art and stories by people in hospice care
Bromley by Bow Centre, London - improving health and wellbeing in East London
Kingfisher Project - a creative writing and poetry project for people in hospital and the community, a collaboration between ArtCare and Salisbury Arts Centre
WRITING AND READING ORGANISATIONS
National Association for Literature Development (NALD)
National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE)
National Literacy Trust - promoting the skills, confidence and pleasures of literacy
The Reader Organisation - making books accessible to all through shared reading. "Page by page, we are making it possible for people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities to enjoy and engage with books together."
ARTICLES ON WRITING and its APPLICATIONS
‘Evaluating a poetry workshop in medical education’ – Medical Humanities, June 2006
‘The use of poetry in health care ethics education’ – Medical Humanities, 2000
and a reply to the above article
‘Poetry, interpretation and unpredictability: a reply to Neil Pickering’ – Medical Humanities, 2001
Unit of Psychology at King's College London – study of wound healing with writing intervention
‘The Power of the Pen’ in The Age, Australia 2004
WRITING RETREATS