Taking a never seen before approach, We Make The Path brings together mental health and arts expertise to create an innovative, impactful program to support mental wellbeing and enhance people’s capacity to self-manage long-term conditions.
In partnership with Recovery Training & Consultancy, Bijli will co-produce a program of peer-led creative activities to help people express themselves in new ways, re-imagine their stories, increase optimism, and create connections.
‘The positive changes I’ve witnessed as a result of this approach have been astonishing.’
Our project will harness the power of creative practice in groups including drama and movement, where the whole body is used in the journey of expression of ‘lived experience’ and recovery.
At the heart of our approach is self-sustaining resilience, self-expression and creativity, to focus on ‘what can be’, rather than ‘what has happened’.
‘We can express ourselves through what we create and find strength’.
Funding for this project has been provided by the Self Management Fund for Scotland administered on behalf of the Scottish Government by the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (the ALLIANCE) with support from the William Grant Foundation.
