S.2 Episode 5: From Participant to Creative Health Practitioner: with Daniel H - The Voices of Creative Health | Lyssna här

Content note: This episode touches briefly on mental health and a difficult personal experience. Please take care while listening.

Summary

What happens when someone who has experienced the transformative power of creativity and art goes on to become a creative health practitioner?

In this episode of The Voices of Creative Health, Daniel shares his inspiring journey from participant to practitioner, reflecting on how creativity, community and lived experience shaped his path into creative health.

Daniel reflects on the importance of feeling seen, finding purpose, and how his own experiences now inform the way he supports others. His story is a powerful reminder that lived experience can become a source of strength, empathy and leadership within the creative health workforce.

As part of our Season 2 theme, Sustaining the Creative Health Workforce, this conversation explores one of the many pathways into creative health and celebrates the value that people with lived experience bring to the sector.

Keywords

Creative health, community, wellbeing, art therapy, mental health, creative practice, community engagement, mental health support, creative health workforce, personal growth, pathways

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Funding

Organisation: Culture Croydon

Name of Grant: Croydon Loves You 2026 – Round 2

Deadline: September 17th 5pm

Link: Croydon Loves You 2026 - Culture Croydon %

Additional Information:

Croydon Loves you 2026 Q&A Session

Tuesday 3rd September 2-3pm

Virtual