An award-winning 8 week home-delivered program for mental wellbeing, mental health support, trauma recovery and building social connections.

Our evidence-based 8 week program provides opportunity to explore a range of creative practices with expert artist teachers, and create targeted self-care strategies for managing a range of physical and mental health experiences. We weave together psycho-social education and content, with live, facilitated creative practices including drawing, painting, music, stitching, gardening, journalling, writing, and nature connection.

"This course has changed my life! I feel so better equipped to notice my symptoms, and now what to do to manage them. I've reconnected with my creativity, and have a whole new set of fun strategies! I write every day, grow plants, and have started learning to draw. It's been truly fantastic" - Jean

WHO IS THIS FOR?

* NDIS Participants: We are a registered provider. Please enrol via this FORM

* Injured workers on Psych injury claims

* Members of the community self-referred or referred by a Psychologist / GP

There are two ways to do this course:

1. SELF-LED: Your ticket includes:

A Creative First Aid Kit, home delivered to you.

Includes a ukelele, watercolour paints, brush and paper, writing journal and pen, Story Cubes, Stitching & Embroidery kit, Drawing Sketch book, Sharpie, pencil and rubber.

Weekly emails sent on Tuesdays with a different Creative Practice Video from one of our creative prescribing artists. Video's take you through creative activities you can do at home with your kit
A Program Workbook, with prompts for self reflection, planning for self care and understanding symptoms and experiences

or

2. GROUP ENROLMENT:

Includes all of the above, along with:

weekly live Zoom group sessions on Wednesdays. Group sessions are facilitated by an experienced arts and mental health educator, and include live creative activities with each of our artist facilitators.
Support and contact with our Program Coordinator throughout the program
Follow up with our Program Coordinator after the program is completed to create your own creative self care plan.

Outcomes for increasing self-care strategies, mindfulness and awareness of mental health challenges, and empowerment to prioritise creative supports is greater with the live group component.

DATES: Tuesday 7th May - Tuesday 18th June 2024

WHEN: Tuesdays 10am-1pm

WHERE: At-home (materials delivered and participation is via video calls and text messages)

MORE INFORMATION

MakeShift: Creativity on Prescription is not a traditional support group, however it is a safe, trauma-informed, confidential group experience and we do facilitate self-reflection and participation.

Course facilitators is Lizzie Rose. This course and its content has been reviewed and approved by a reference group that includes a GP, Psychological and Researcher in the field of Medicine and Health.

Criteria to enrol:

Capacity to participate in 8 weekly sessions OR engage in self-led exploration of set activities
Motivation to explore creative practices for self care and mental health

NDIS clients who are self-managed and some that are plan-managed can claim this course on their plan and need to complete this online enrolment

*Please note that following enrolment, one of our team will be in touch by phone to have a short chat prior to the course starting.*

Please note: Remind is a high quality program so the associated fees are $1500 for group participation and $900 for self led participation, based on NDIS Group Program pricing (2023)

We invest significantly in each participant. We send each participant hundreds of dollars of materials (e.g. ukulele, watercolour kits, drawing kits, sewing materials), pay for high quality creative facilitators who are experts in their own right, and provide a high ratio of staff to participants (e.g. usually 1 staff to 6 participants).

We acknowledge that members of the community that participate in this program may be unemployed and not have the means to pay for this course. We offer this program to community members who are not able to access other funding (e.g. NDIS plans) at a heavily discounted rate.

QUESTIONS?

Email us at hello@makeshift.org.au