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Latest News
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Final call for June training
We have a few places left for our June training and booking is now open for November: 13 and 14 June 2025IN-PERSON TRAININGEdge Hill University (booked via Edge Hill Uni) 1 November 2025IN-PERSON TASTER DAYUniversity of Salford (booked via Uni of Salford) Edge Hill shop University of Salford shop Please also see here for further…
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Arts for the Blues at the House of Lords
Vicky Karkou has appeared at Children and Young People’s Mental Health Roundtable at the House of Lords on 3rd June, hosted by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Creative Health and the National Centre for Creative Health. Vicky spoke to the group about the Arts for the Blues project and the work of the broader follow-up…
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Arts for the Blues in Riga
The Arts for the Blues team have presented their work in Riga, Latvia at the 7th European Dramatherapy Conference, also the 2nd International Dramatherapy Conference on the 2 and 3 May. The theme of the conference this year was ‘Human and Nature in Dramatherapy’. This was an incredibly well-attended and diverse conference with around 250…
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Next Arts for the Blues therapy group at the University of Salford
We are proud to announce the next Arts for the Blues therapy group will be delivered at the University of Salford starting on Feb 11th 2025. The group will run every Tuesday morning 10-11:30am for 12 weeks, concluding on 29 April 2025. The group, which has limited places, will take place face to face on…
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Arts for the Blues training in Kathmandu
In collaboration with researchers at Queen Mary University, London, we delivered Arts for the Blues training to therapists based in Kathmandu, Nepal on 9 December. Some lovely photos of the event in the gallery below!
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Arts for the Blues nominated for a Knowledge Exchange Award!
We are delighted to announce that Arts for the Blues has been nominated for a Knowledge Exchange award. This relates to how our training programme is helping to spread creative practice in therapy in the NHS, and in a plethora of charities, schools, health and cultural organisations in the UK and overseas. We couldn’t do…
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Events
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Arts for the Blues training
As part of the scaling up project funded by UKRI AHRC, we are offering Arts for the Blues training at Edge Hill University and University of Salford. This training is nearly full but do watch out for more training in the future. To keep in touch and to find out about future trainings, email artswell@edgehill.ac.uk
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Student training event
17th April 2021 (online) We spent a wonderful training day with counselling and psychotherapy students from both masters and undergraduate programmes at the University of Salford and Edge Hill University. We also had lecturers from both universities attending both in a support and participation capacity, alongwith invited mental health practitioners. Today was the first of…
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Arts for the Blues training day
16 January 2021 This weekend we had such an inspiring day with a wonderful group of therapists, counsellors, psychologists and psychiatrists, who together explored the creative possibilities for online delivery of the Arts for the Blues model. We are so thankful to connect with everyone. Here are some of the creative outputs from the day! …
Research Announcements
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The Importance of Psychological Flow in Creative, Embodied and Enactive Psychological Approach (Arts for the Blues)
Parsons, A. S., Dubrow-Marshall, L., Turner, R., Thurston, S., Starkey, J., Omylinska-Thurston, J., & Karkou, V. (2022). The Importance of Psychological Flow in a Creative, Embodied and Enactive Psychological Therapy Approach (Arts for the Blues). Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy. Read the full article here.