Practitioner Support and Wellbeing
Initiatives supporting creative health practitioners' health and wellbeing
To use the resources you can search by keyword (e.g. name, or area of interest), or filter by type, cost and location (including online). Both search options are below, on the right-hand side of the page.
This new collection of resources was gathered alongside the Keeping Safe report: a review of psychosocial and wellbeing support options for creative practitioners working with challenging conditions and circumstances (Dr Julia Puebla Fortier and Dr Kate Massey-Chase, with support from Dr James Woodhams). We are now adding new resources to the page. If you want to send us new resources, please submit them using the ‘Submit a resource’ button on the right, and we will endeavour to upload relevant resources within a month.
This project was supported with funding from Arts Council England.
Thriving Facilitators Community, Sheila Preston
Group coaching and supervision to reflect on the social, emotional and practical experience of the work.
Voluntary Code of Practice for Arts in Health Practitioners by WAHWN
Template for creative health practitioners to develop their own code of practice
Wales Arts, Health, and Wellbeing Network
Strategic and practitioner network for arts, health and wellbeing in the arts for Wales. Offers wellbeing-oriented training and peer groups for creative health practitioners.
Wellbeing in the Arts
Phone, counselling, coaching and supervision support for artists, and several team/company support options, including an Employee Assistance Programme.
Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP)
WRAP is a tool, originally developed by Mary Ellen Copleand and a group of mental health service users who wanted to work on their own recovery, and sometimes used by socially engaged practitioners, that can aid personal recovery, monitoring wellness, and how an individual would like others to support them.
What can we learn from the Practising Well Awards?
Information from the 11 shortlisted programmes and projects from CHWA’s Practising Well Awards in 2020 and 2021, devised in collaboration with Nicola Naismith. Guidance for employers and commissioners considering their support offers and for funders hoping to understand more about what constitutes good practice.
What We're Seeing: Practising Well Awards
A blog exploring the 2025 shortlist for the Practising Well Award, which celebrates excellent pratice in practitioner support and wellbeing.
What's the benefit? Supporting disabled artists who are on benefits
A blog from Alastair Gentry based on research for Unlimited.