Art in Healthcare uses visual art to help people feel better. We bring art to people where they are, and work towards making the benefits of art for health and wellbeing available to all.
Self management is a way of living and working that means people living with long term conditions can feel more in control of their own health and wellbeing. It supports people to live their lives better, on their terms. Self management places people in the driving seat of their own wellbeing.
These cards share creative activities that Art in Healthcare has developed from holding therapeutic art workshops, exploring ways art can help people manage pain, relax, find respite, joy and resilience through creativity. Working together online and in-person we explored, played, made art, and shared how these made us feel and how art helps us.
An evolving creative tool kit has been created which includes 32 activities. These are practical activities that require little or no specialised art materials. They have been co-designed with artists, art therapists, occupational therapists, mindfulness practitioners, unpaid carers and those living with long term health conditions across Scotland. We would like to thank all who have been involved with this project.
Selected creative activities come alive in this short film and can be viewed here here.
12 October 2026 by
Margaret McCormick