Arts for Health at MMU and Greater Manchester Arts Health Network present

An Un-Conference event

on 20th October 2011

focusing on arts and culture for public mental health and wellbeing

with

Dr Langley Brown and Phil Burgess

on

Changing Mindsets - the realities of artists engagement for mental health and wellbeing

at Pennine Suite, All Saints Building, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester

Registration from: 8.15 am

Session Runs: 8.45 – 11 am

An interactive ‘how to’ for artists to stimulate enquiry into the underlying skills and knowledge required to work within the health sector and raise awareness of best practice in mental health.

For: artists, local authority arts, mental health promotion, charitable mental health or arts organisations, cultural organisations.

Dr Langley Brown is a visual artist with coming up to forty years' experience in arts, health and communities.
 
As Visiting Research Fellow at Arts for Health at the Manchester Metropolitan University he is establishing the Arts for Health Archive, assisting and supervising students and researchers in projects that draw upon this extensive collection of material documenting the growth of the field from Manchester in the 1970s to the worldwide phenomenon it has become in the 21st century. An archivist is soon to be appointed to fully catalogue, develop and promote the Archive.  

Langley was a member of the seminal Manchester Hospitals' Arts Project in the late 1970s and went on to establish START, an arts centre for people recovering from mental health problems. During his directorship of START (Manchester) he advised and assisted in setting up similar projects elsewhere.
 
After psychic meltdown he left START in the mid-90s and helped develop a uk national arts and mental health forum (i am: Inspired Art Movement). He acted in a series of successful productions by Buxton-based fragiletheatre, and was a board member of Bridgehead Arts, a company exploring cross-artform collaborative practice.

He gained his doctorate in 2006 for a largely autobiographical study of the relationships between art, mental health and distress, and therapy.
 
Having enjoyed a fulfilling career encouraging others to do art, Langley is now relishing the opportunity to devote more time to his own painting and to the making of things.

Philip Burgess is a psycodramatist, facilitator and consultant for arts in health.
Phil has worked with groups and individuals for over twenty years through a variety of disciplines that include; dance, circus skills, psychodrama, theatre, corporate training, team building and therapeutic massage. He noticed that time after time,  integrating bodywork, helped people to access and unlock their potential for healing and resolving issues.

At 40 years of age  learnt to juggle, unicycle, walk the slack rope and became involved in physical theatre, performing on stilts, and playing the flute as well as achieving his first cartwheel. He then studied creative dance and worked in schools and community centres teaching circus skills, theatre and dance. Physical theatre and the whole creative process became his passion. After touring Spain with his theatre company, performing and running workshops he went on to develop his own workshop techniques that enabled others to find their own creative selves.

As Phil became aware of the positive changes that these activities brought about he chose to look deeper into the underlying process of change and studied Psychodrama, a group therapeutic method using drama and spontaneity. He now works as psychodrama psychotherapist and is the new Creative Producer for Collective Encounters Theatre company based in Liverpool.

To register for this session only please click the 'Register' button at the top of the page to complete the registration form.

Overview

Within an overarching public mental health context, the four separate sessions at Un-Conference will involve active participation to expand and develop arts and health practice and foster dialogue across the arts, health and voluntary sectors.

The Un-Conference is brought to you by Clive Parkinson, Arts for Health, MMU, and Anne Crabtree, GM Arts Health Network.

Each free session is aiming to engage different audiences from across the North West with a primary focus on arts and health in Greater Manchester. 

To register for this session please follow the link at the top of the page.  Places will be confirmed at the end of September.

The other sessions are as follows:

11.15am – 1.15pm: Understanding and Evidencing Transformative Practice
For more information or to register for this session only go to: www.transformativepratice.eventbrite.com

1.45 - 3.45pm: Depression and Imagination
For more information or to register for this session only go to: www.depressionandimagination.eventbrite.com

4.00 - 6pm: Cultural Attendance and Public Mental Health
For more information or to register for this session only go to: www.culturalattendance.eventbrite.com

We do not anticipate delegates will attend more than one or two of the sessions.  If you do wish to attend more than one session you must register separately for each, following the relevant booking links as above.  

If you have any booking queries please contact Events Northern Ltd on 01772 336639 or info@eventsnorthern.co.uk.