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Harnessing the Arts to Create a Happier Workforce
Explore how creative engagement and the arts can strengthen wellbeing and connection at work.
This practical course helps you understand the link between the arts and mental wellbeing, discover your creative preferences and learn how simple creative activities can build happier, more connected workplaces.
1 Day
Overview
The arts have a powerful influence on wellbeing, connection and emotional balance, and you don’t have to be “good at art” to benefit from them. This course explores the relationship between creative engagement and mental health, helping you understand how different art forms support stress reduction, mindfulness and personal wellbeing.
You will take part in hands-on activities across a range of creative modalities, including music, visual arts, photography and more. These activities help you discover your own creative style, identify your arts “dose” and recognise what brings joy, calm and meaningful engagement in daily life and work.
The program also focuses on how the arts can shape a happier workplace. You will explore ill-health in the modern workplace, learn how creative strategies support positive culture and develop an arts-health business plan tailored to your organisation. By the end of the day, you will leave with practical tools and a deeper understanding of how creativity can enhance connection, performance and wellbeing at work.
Who Should Attend
This course is ideal for HR professionals, managers, team leaders, wellness advocates and anyone who wants to cultivate wellbeing for themselves or others in their workplace. It suits individuals at all levels who are looking to reduce stress, boost happiness, build connection and explore creative approaches to work and daily life.
Course Content
During this training course, you will explore:
- The foundations of creativity and the power of the arts, including the link between arts, arts dose and wellbeing
- Foundations of wellbeing and how creative engagement can be used as a practical strategy for workplace happiness and connection
- The Arts-Health Business Plan and how to design and justify the implementation of the arts in your workplace
- The creative ripple effect and how creative health activities enhance workplace skills and performance.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this training course, you should be able to:
- Articulate your creative style, arts dose and preferred art form
- Describe the health and wellbeing benefits of engaging in the arts
- Explain the business case and measurable benefits of arts engagement for organisational wellbeing
- Develop an arts-health business plan to support workplace wellbeing
- Describe the positive flow-on effects of creative health activities on employees and the organisation.
Facilitator Profile
Dr Christina Davies
BA(Hons-Psy), Graduate Diploma Public Health, MPH, PhD
Known for her engaging, energetic and charismatic speaking style, Dr Christina Davies is an international leader in the field of arts and health.
With a unique background in public health, psychology, and the arts, Christina is the Founder and Director of Good Arts, Good Mental Health®, which translates her groundbreaking PhD into practice. She is the creator of the globally recognized catchphrase, "You don't have to be good at art, for the arts to be good for you". This phrase was the motto for the groundbreaking 2024 Good Arts, Good Mental Health® media campaign, a world-first, Western Australian, arts-mental health initiative which has since been adapted and implemented in Europe.
For over 25 years, her influential, multi-award-winning research has provided essential knowledge about arts engagement and the arts-mental health 'dose'. Her work empowers people to cultivate mental wellbeing in everyday settings (e.g., workplaces, homes, schools), successfully shaping local, national, and international policy and practice. Christina is a practicing visual artist who previously served as an Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Arts, Mental Health and Wellbeing at The University of Western Australia.
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