Keith
Keith has a long history of working in mental health wellbeing and the arts, particularly in his role with Creativity in Care. He explains the benefits of the creative process to engage with people in residential care settings.
Name: Keith Walker
Years: 2000s – present
Keith has a long history of working in mental health wellbeing and the arts, particularly in his role with Creativity in Care. He explains the benefits of the creative process to engage with people in residential care settings.
He talks about his hopes for the future of mental health awareness and explains how some of his projects have successfully adapted to a digital platform in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Excerpts:
“We start off, not so much with an idea but with a need that we’ve identified, or somebody has come to us with a need. What we try to do is work with people and help them to generate their own ideas about what they want to achieve.”
“I think there’s more awareness that stigma is harmful. There is still stigma, a lot of it is quite deeply seated and quite a lot of the most damaging stigma is self-stigma.”
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