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Arts in Mind Education Scheme

The Arts in Mind Education Scheme brought together educators in the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) with artists and cultural practitioners to explore creative, arts-based responses to key educational priorities identified by the faculty, including:  

  • Supporting students to engage in reflective practice
  • Supporting students to self-identify and share mental health issues
  • Supporting students to develop patient empathy and self-care
  • Supporting students to develop creativity in academic work

To encourage and inspire applications to the programme, academics, researchers and educators at the IoPPN were invited to an ideas development workshop alongside student representatives, artists and cultural practitioners. It offered an opportunity to consider key challenges surrounding mental health and wellbeing; the chance for attendees to discuss and generate potential ideas and responses to the above priorities; as well as the opportunity for attendees to identify potential partners for collaboration.

Three projects resulted from the ideas development events.

 

 

These projects are:

Dr Dawn Albertson, Distance Learning, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience; Dr Catherine Lamont-Robinson, Curator and Artist; Ana Marques, Online Education Designer

Developed as part of the Arts In Mind Education Scheme, this pilot project will create a virtual art gallery. The gallery will align with modules in the Psychology & Neuroscience of Mental Health MSc programme at the IoPPN and is designed to provide an innovative way for distance learners to develop group reflective practice and overcome the common issue of isolation.

Each piece within the exhibitions will be created with the module content as a reference, so both collaborating artists and participating students will be linking creativity to academic enquiry. Going beyond aesthetics and passive viewing of art, the collaborating artist will provide both novel pieces and responses to the art as a model for students who will be encouraged to submit their own contributions to the module exhibition, and to respond to the work of others on the module discussion boards. This living gallery will be a reflection of the way the students interpret, and are inspired by, the material they are absorbing within the programme and will change with each new set of students over time.

This project is a collaboration between King's College London's Distance Learning Team, curator and artist Dr Catherine Lamont, and Online Education Designer Ana Marques, supported by the Culture Team as part of the Arts in Mind Education Scheme.

Dr Jennifer Oates, Department of Mental Health Nursing; Hannah Hull and James Leadbitter, Madlove, Artists

Developed as part of the Arts In Mind Education Scheme, this project will develop and pilot a simple Sensory Palette tool kit to help psychology and mental health nursing students reflect on their own mental health, better articulate their own mental health needs and develop modes of self-care.

Through a series of experiential workshops and homework tasks staff and students will have an opportunity to articulate the experience of positive and negative mental health in terms of the senses. So: What does good mental health smell, taste, look, feel (touch) and sound like? And: What sensory experiences do you associate with poor mental health? BSc psychology students will be invited to evaluate the project as part of their final year dissertations.

This project is a collaboration between King's College London's Department of Mental Health Nursing and artists Hannah Hull and James Leadbitter, Madlove, supported by the Culture Team at King’s as part of the Arts in Mind Education Scheme.

Dr Patricia Zunszain, Department of Psychological Medicine; The Liminal Space, Creative Consultants

Developed as part of the Arts In Mind Education Scheme, Visualising Vulnerability aims to challenge stigma around mental health in the student body by raising the visibility of a range of issues and creating a shared language for discussing emotional wellbeing and vulnerability they may experience themselves.

This language will be used as a basis for collectively designing physical objects that represent emotional states. A series of workshops will take curriculum-based issues/states that the students are studying, such as trauma, secure attachment, anxiety and depression, and use these as start points for the development of a ‘wearable feelings’ range. Following these workshops, on concept from each state of mind will be turned into a product illustration, resulting in a range of posters/images to be displayed.

This project is a collaboration between King's College London's Department of Psychological Medicine and creative consultancy, The Liminal Space, supported by the Culture Team at King’s as part of the Arts in Mind Education Scheme.

 

 

For more information about the Arts in Mind Education Scheme  please contact amy.c.brown@kcl.ac.uk.

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