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Dr Zoe Moula, Lecturer in Mental Health (Research & Teaching) at King's College London and Editor-in-Chief at the International Journal of Art Therapy. My research is exploring the impact of the arts and arts psychotherapies on children and young people, particularly when these are delivered in nature and outdoor spaces. I am also the lead editor of the book 'Arts in Nature with Children and Young People'

https://www.routledge.com/Arts-in-Nature-with-Children-and-Young-People-A-Guide-Towards-Health-Equality-Wellbeing-and-Sustainability/Moula-Walshe/p/book/9781032412795

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Scott Macpherson (Lecturer MH Nursing) at Robert Gordon University (Aberdeen) (School of Health) s.g.macpherson1@rgu.ac.uk

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3681-0019

·       Mental health nurse, MA Psychology and CBT therapist since 2005

·       Co-developed the Mental Health in Movies initiative, which uses the medium of film to engage students, professionals, service users and the general public in discussion around issues in mental health and well-being

·       Teaching & research interests include substance use, CBT, spirituality and human rights

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Dr Mark Pearson (Assistant Professor) at University of Nottingham.

mark.pearson@nottingham.ac.uk

Clinical background as mental health nurse across various areas including NMP and BIA.

Research focus within the field of health humanities with a particular focus on poetry/ creative writing for mental health.

Co-Lead for the Surviving by Storytelling project: https://institutemh.org.uk/research/managed-innovation-networks/projects/surviving-by-storytelling/599-surviving-by-storytelling

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Associate Professor in Mental Health

·   n.lambert@mdx.ac.uk

·   0000-0001-8785-4719

I've teaching and research interests in women's health, physical and mental health, Trauma informed care, Arts/creativity, co-production and health education.

I'm also part of #mhTV a open access vodcast/podcast that encourages free debate and learning around mental health and nursing issues.

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Behind the creative canvas: An innovative trauma-informed art-based educational approach using an immersive learning pedagogy - PubMed

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Trauma has been increasingly considered in mental health policies and strategies worldwide. However, the implementation of such initiatives into practice remains inconsistent resulting in a fragmented approach to trauma-informed care. One explanation for the current state of trauma services is the u …

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Dr Lucian Milasan (Senior Lecturer MH Nursing) at Nottingham Trent University (Institute of Health and Allied Professions) | Lucian.milasan@ntu.ac.uk

15 years experience in delivering mental healthcare services in various therapeutic, advisory, and managerial roles

visual researcher with a focus on exploring lived experiences of mental distress and recovery through art-based approaches / photography (photo-elicitation, photovoice)

co-production / participatory research

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Incorporate various art forms like painting, drawing, poetry, and music into your lesson plans to help students express their ideas and emotions

Use drama and role-playing activities to help students understand different perspectives and empathize with others

Encourage collaboration by having students work on group projects that require creative problem-solving and teamwork

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Opportunities for collaboration and research

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Opportunities for collaboration and research

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create a professional learning community where we can share ideas, resources, and best practices for creative teaching

collaborative research projects that explore the impact of creative teaching methods on student learning (and well-being?)

collaborative presentations at conferences that focus on creative approaches to mental health nursing education and practice

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Organise networking events where we/our students can connect and share ideas for integrating creativity into the mental health nursing curriculum

Create a shared document where we can contribute to promoting creative teaching in mental health nursing (and beyond)

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A space in which we can share some of our own artwork, interesting projects, or events we came across relevant to mental health nursing education/research/practice.

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Update on any collaborations taking place within the group and potential outcomes / a space for people looking for collaborators for relevant pedagogic/research projects

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I'm leading an MSc and want to use art and creativity to help students understand the history of MH Nursing and develop their own personal and professional sense of self - any suggestions gratefully received!

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Currently we are using 'slow looking' A guide to slow looking | Tate) to support students observation, assessment and feedback skills. We especially use Audio Description: No Woman, No Cry | Tate

We are also using Photovoice to research student experiences It's a method of reflection and reporting that combines pictures with individual stories to develop a group message

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No Woman, No Cry is a very large, densely layered painting that depicts a crying woman set among various abstract patterns. The canvas is 2.4m high by 1.8m wide. The woman, who has dark hair and black skin, is shown in profile. The portrait is formed from a thin brown painted outline that is filled with many small dark brown circles. She wears blue eye shadow, red lipstick, a string of coloured beads that sits just below her hairline and a thin black necklace.

Forming the pendant of her necklace is a lump of elephant dung studded with map pins and a black heart shape. The woman's chest bears an area of vibrant red and orange paint, with flame-like yellow forks across its top edge. A series of pale blue tears descends from each of her eyes, all of which feature a very small collaged photograph of a boy's face.

The background is painted with a mixture of pale green and bright yellow. There is a criss-cross pattern under the portrait, which is made up small circles. The dotted lines are punctuated by black heart shapes that appear at the centre of each of the criss-cross diamonds.

Running in four horizontal lines across the canvas, the words 'RIP Stephen Lawrence 1974-1993' appear very faintly underneath its top layer, with the dates at the bottom completely obscured by the shoulders of the woman.

When exhibited, the painting rests on two large lumps of elephant dung which are sealed in transparent resin and studded with coloured map pins that are placed on the floor. The painting's upper edge leans against the gallery wall.

This painting was made by the British artist Chris Ofili in 1998 when he was living and working in London. The title of this work is the name of a 1974 song by the Jamaican reggae musician Bob Marley that asks a female listener not to be sad.

The faint inscription behind the portrait indicates that the crying woman is Doreen Lawrence (now Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon OBE), the mother of Stephen Lawrence. Stephen Lawrence was murdered as a teenage boy in an unprovoked racist attack in London in 1993, and the photographs inside the tears in this work are all images of Stephen.

The work is painted on a coarse linen canvas that was bought pre-primed. Ofili added several further layers of acrylic primer and then covered the entire canvas with light green acrylic paint. He then drew thin lines over it in pencil, before adding the collaged circles that make up the diamond pattern. The circles are small cut-out reproductions of a work by the British abstract artist Bridget Riley.

Ofili then applied the heart shapes in black oil paint and the black dots using rub-on transfers. Following this, he used more paint to write the text across the painting, before fixing the dung pendant onto the canvas with a glue gun.

A polyester resin mixed with glitter, orange and black pigments was then poured onto the work while it was positioned horizontally. The canvas was tipped up before drying, producing runs of resin that are visible around its edges.

Finally, thinned oil paint was applied to depict the woman and unthinned oils were used for the beads and the colours on her chest. Despite the many layers, the overall thickness is still sufficiently thin for the canvas texture to remain apparent through it.

After five years of campaigning by Lawrence's parents, the then Home secretary, Jack Straw, announced a judicial inquiry into the police investigations into their son's death. When it was published two years later the 1999 Macpherson Report found police conduct had been marred by professional incompetence and institutional racism. The report made seventy recommendations, which led to an overhaul of Britain's race relations legislation.

Curator Judith Nesbitt has written that 'Ofili was deeply moved by the way in which Doreen Lawrence's overwhelming silent grief at her son's tragic death had been transformed with each successive interview as she became even stronger in spirit and emboldened to speak with great dignity'.

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Audio Description: No Woman, No Cry | Tate

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No Woman, No Cry is a very large, densely layered painting that depicts a crying woman set among various abstract patterns. The canvas is 2.4m high by 1.8m wide. The woman, who has dark hair and black skin, is shown in profile.

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Student nurse perceptions of experiential learning to understand personality disorder: An interpretive phenomenological study emphasising the patient experience with an aim to increase empathy and understanding

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Mental Health Movie Monthly: Using film screenings to raise public awareness of mental health | Nursing Times

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Using film screenings to raise public awareness of mental health | Nursing Times

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Abstract Mental Health Movie Monthly was launched in 2016 at Robert Gordon University by two lecturers with the aim of improving understanding around

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The role of creative arts in mental health recovery

Integration of arts into mental health nursing education and practice

Research and advocacy for arts in mental health nursing

Lived experience and personal passion for the arts

Networking, collaboration and expanding collective efforts

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Surviving by storytelling - Institute of Mental Health

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The Institute of Mental Health is one of the leading mental health institutes in the UK, offering leadership and innovation backed by world class expertise.

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Creative practice in mental health nursing

the role of poetry/ creative writing in mental health nurse education and practice

Narrative therapeutic approaches

Tattoos and mental health

Public mental health

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Opportunity for collaboration on research and scholarship

Opportunity to share knowledge and develop ideas

Developing new ideas for teaching and creative resources for students.