Arts and Health Training

Are you new to arts and health, social prescribing or creative health? Do you want to learn from an award-winning, NHS funded organisation who’ve been designing and delivering evidence-based arts and health programmes for over a decade?

If the answer is yes… read on.

Breathe are well placed as leaders in the arts and health sector to offer training and consultancy packages, training and advising on best practice, programme design and safe and sustainable delivery models.

The creative health and social prescribing sector have seen a huge growth in interest and activity in recent years, and the team at Breathe feel passionately about sharing our extensive experience to ensure the sector grows safely and sustainably.

We offer training and consultancy services to organisations, teams and individuals, sharing best practice, with participant and artist safety at the heart.

Today gave me a lot of hope about what is possible for arts and health on an international scale.
Nils Fietje, Research Officer, WHO Europe

We’re proud to have trained staff from the World Health Organisation, teams from all over the world including Denmark, Italy and Romania, as well as across the UK including King’s College London, NHS Gloucestershire Integrated Care System and Wandsworth Council commissioned training for arts organisations across the borough.

We have delivered training on the following:

Arts & Health 101
What is Social Prescribing?
Social Enterprise, Modelling & Scale-Up
Breathe’s Approach to Programme Design
Sustainability through Research & Evaluation
Exploring Barriers to Participant Recruitment
The Power of Networks
Developing and Supporting Practitioners
National & Local Funding Picture
Interactive Bid Writing Workshop

By choosing Breathe as your training provider, you will not only get high quality innovative training, but you will be doing something amazing at the same time! 100% of Breathe’s profits are directly re-invested back into our work improving health and wellbeing in the community.

Get in touch

Lorna Greenwood - Head of Scalability

lorna@breatheahr.org

100%

of participants found our creative health training engaging, useful and interesting.

Media

Breathe were invited by the World Health Organization (WHO) to share expertise and knowledge with teams in Denmark, Italy and Romania – training them in the safe, sustainable delivery model we have developed in the UK. Watch this short film to find out more.

Lorna Greenwood (Breathe Head of Scalability) leading programme delivery model training to international colleagues in Denmark. Photo: Felipe Pagani

Lydia Hayes (Breathe Head of Development) delivering fundraising training for Wandsworth Arts. Photo: Georgia Heighway

Yvonne Farquharson (Breathe Founder and Managing Director), Lydia Hayes (Breathe Head of Development), Richard Ings (Arts Council London) and Melanie Nock (Wandsworth Care Alliance) engaging in a Wandsworth Creative Heath training panel discussion. Photo: Georgia Heighway

Hannah Dye (Breathe Head of Programmes) delivering programme design training. Photo: Georgia Heighway

Researcher at our arts and health training. Photo: Felipe Pagani

Breathe delivering Creative Health training in Wandsworth Council Chamber. Photo: Felipe Pagani

Yvonne Farquharson (Breathe Founder and Managing Director) and Arji ManuelPillai (Breathe Artist) delivering creative health training in Wandsworth Council Chamber. Photo: Felipe Pagani

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