Jane
Jane has 20 years of experience as a community musician. She discusses the benefits of drumming workshops in hospital and community settings, from a mental health viewpoint.
Name: Jane Bentley
Years: 2000s – Present
Jane has 20 years of experience as a community musician. She discusses the benefits of drumming workshops in hospital and community settings, from a mental health viewpoint.
Jane recounts the changing attitudes to mental health over the years, with particular attention to the therapeutic benefit of creative arts. She shares her hopes for the future.
Excerpts:
“With a lot of arts, it can circumvent, or it can go round the outside of, you know, traditional pathways of talking and responding. And there’s so much that can happen non-verbally.”
“I think the arts are a medicine for mental health, really. Whether there’s anything diagnosable or not, I think everybody goes to a concert, or the cinema, to make ourselves feel better.”