A horse broke its neck and died at the Grand National today. That is the only fact you need to know about the race. Everything else is irrelevant.

So excited to announce my first special issue on Nature-based Art Therapy alongside two superb guest co-editors, Pamela Whitaker & Caroline Hickman 🌿Research, practice & opinion articles welcome 🍃Mentorship & artwork info to follow shortly 🌱Contact me to discuss your ideas!

This Thursday: help restore #Bristol’s #arts #funding megaphone.org.uk/petitions/mayo… via @megaphoneuk

Summer 🌞 ed. of British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT)'s #InSight magazine is out now. I've written 2 articles with Sjs about starting out as an #ArtTherapist and how International Journal of Art Therapy: Inscape is working to better support trainees. baat.org/publications/i…

Thank you Trinity Bristol and to those in our local community here in Harbourside, Hotwells, Brandon Hill, and Clifton who have saved the beautiful Jacobs Wells Baths, with the vision for it to become an iconic community-driven arts centre for this part of #BristolCity #SaveJWB

I'll be stepping down next year and it would be great to hand over the role of Trainee & New Practitioner Advisor to someone keen to support International Journal of Art Therapy: Inscape develop its engagement with emerging #art #therapists.

📢 calling all art therapists - the new HCPC standards of proficiency are about to come into effect. British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT) and HCPC are joining forces to deliver some free training - British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT) members, watch out for details in your regular members bulletin. #ArtTherapy

'Can Art inform Healthcare?' ArtReview_ asks artreview.com/can-art-inform…

The new issue of British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT)'s #InSight magazine is out now. This includes the newest 'Conversation' piece between an experienced art therapist and a new practitioner about #animation #arttherapy and #forensic work.

Visit our new exhibition 🎉 Young people aged 16-24 poured their creativity into clay, collage, and even lavender eye masks inspired by our museum collections. Let's celebrate the meaningful 'Connexions' we've forged! @ArtsHealthSW creativeshift

So proud of the #RIRO team and everything we did together. The exhibition is open until the Spring so get down to the John Wesley’s New Room. #art #youngpeople #coproduction @ArtsHealthSW creativeshift

Good that more attention is given to the long term risks of medications so that people can make informed choices. Would be good to update patient leaflets to reflect the risk and have more research so we can be clearer on how big the risk is.

Need a toolkit on collaborative work between young people (YP), artists, & cultural institutions to support programmes of creativity, wellbeing, and volunteering? culturehealthandwellbeing.org.uk/riro showcases the work we did with amazing YP John Wesley’s New Room with creativeshift Arts Council England

I'll be presenting a clay-based reflective workshop @ #Creative #Health in Action conference on 18.9.24 Bristol Beacon for creativeshift. Come along and enjoy this amazing day putting the #Arts & Health on the map! bristolbeacon.org/whats-on/creat…

Thank you Social Biobehavioural Research Group for highlighting the wonderful work that #creative #health practitioners do. It was great to use the INNATE framework for this workshop at Bristol Beacon with creativeshift, and witness the unfolding of people's voices through the magic of #clay!