Summer School Positive Health & Resilience

• Learn the theory behind using creativity to improve mental wellbeing.
• Get daily expert guidance in practical workshops around art-based methods of learning.
• Apply these methods to improve your own resilience and mental wellbeing.
• Practice how to implement them in your future work – with clients, patients or communities.
• Work in small, international groups on real-life cases.
• Reflect creatively, using different art forms to express and share your experience.

• British research showed that consuming art reduces psychological stress and increases resilience (Gallo et al., 2021). With this summer school we'll take it one step further and apply art-based learning.
• The young professional is better developed in his artistic being and will therefore be more sensory, more alert, different and broader in his role.
• Using authentic case studies discussed in an international and interdisciplinary context, we investigate how this method influences the positive health and resilience of their audience (patient, client,...).

Week 1: Focus on yourself as a professional

• Map your own positive health using the spider web and identify the limiting and supporting factors per dimension.  For this you will use reflection and imagination.
• Express what change you want to realize within your own positive health/resilience as a professional. And which concrete actions you will take to achieve this in the coming months.
• Collaborate in patient/client centered care with other and different professions.
• Explore the ways and forms of art that support you in developing your own resilience and expressing their own experiences.

Week 2:  Focus on the other (client, carer, public)

• Use the spider web as a conversation tool to map out the other person's positive health.
• Learn to connect through artistic expression and creative communication.
• Develop alertness to notice the unspoken needs of the other, recognize them, feel whether something artistic/creative can support them and act accordingly.