What is Creative First Aid?
Do I need to have art skills?
Is there group participation?
Do I need special art supplies?
Creative prescriptions
Relearn the ancient practical arts of self care through your innate creativity with an off-the-shelf or tailored prescription.
Prescriptions
Off the Shelf
We have packaged our award winning Creative First Aid approach into three accessible workshops. Take as prescribed or get in touch for a bespoke program.
6 wk
Remind COURSE
Our award-winning creativity on prescription group program!
1 hr
Braincraft
Creative First Aid distilled into a dynamic 1 hr online session.
3 Hr
Safe and Sound
A workshop on building protective strategies for managing burnout and vicarious trauma
6 mth
Practitioner training
A 6 month professional development upskill to bring creative first aid to your work practice
Mental health is a big conversation in workplaces right now. Mental health related injury costs the economy more than $200 billion per year. But what actually does work in supporting mental health?
Our pioneering, award-winning, evidence based creative prescribing equips teams with practical tools for understanding the nervous system, and the role of self and community care, alongside fun, playful, accessible strategies for promoting mindfulness, and pathways to joy.
03
Creative First aid
What is Creative First Aid?
Creative First Aid is a pioneering approach by MakeShift. This approach draws upon the ways that intentional creative practice acts as a powerful antidote in regulating the nervous system, fostering mindful awareness, and enabling calm connection between people and communities.
We weave mental health and psycho-education together with fun-first, inspiring creative practice led by artist educators, for a highly impactful experience. We transform creative acts into creative first aid through a reviewed and evaluated methodology, incorporating the five elements of curiosity, self compassion, playfulness, safekeeping and inch-by-inch thinking.
PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY
