Learning Modality Programme Arts and Well-being for Personal and Professional Growth

19.09.2023
"Embodiment-driven pedagogy: exploring leadership through dance" was one of the workshops held during the International Cross-Disciplinary Symposium "Creativity and Well-Being for Personal and Professional Growth" in Dublin 27th April 2023, as part of the ARTHEWEW project. Photo: Ieva Petkuté.

In the project “Multiform Pedagogy in Arts, Health and Well-being” (ARTHEWE) the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI) at the Trinity College Dublin (TCD, Ireland) coordinated co-developing and piloting learning modality programme “Arts and Well-being for Personal and Professional Growth”

The programme is aimed at the Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health Program at GBHI. The Atlantic Fellows are professionals from a wide range of disciplines and countries who apply and join the full-time, residential program for 12 months at either the University of California, San Francisco (USA) or Trinity College Dublin (Ireland).

The aim of the learning modality programme developed in ARTHEWE is to implement a set of arts-based and arts-informed actions to support the well-being of the fellows and community development.  During ARTHEWE the programme opened a space to explore well-being and mental health, increased body awareness into a cognitive “preventive skill” to be able to better take care of yourself.

Here you will find materials and results of developing the learning modality programme.

A person presenting on stage the results of the project.
Atlantic Fellow Ieva Petkuté presenting the results of the ARTHEWE project in Dublin during the project final event in April 2023. Photo: Anna-Mari Rosenlöf.

1. The description on the new learning modality “Arts and Well-being for Personal and Professional Growth” which was piloted in 2021. The development of the modality was led by Ieva Petkutė, with contributions of other Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health: Anne Browning (USA) and Karin Diamond (Wales).
Description of the modality can be found here:
Summary of the Learning Modality description GBHI (PDF format).

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Cover page of the report presented in the text.
The summary report was created by Kim-Huong Nguyen, with support from Ieva Petkuté, Gráinne McGettrick, Macarena Espina Díaz, workshop facilitators and ARTHEWE partners.

2. The report of the ARTHEWE events on April 24-27, 2023 in Dublin, Ireland. The report developed by Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health Kim-Huong Nguyen (Australia/Vietnam), with contributions of Ieva Petkutė (Lithuania), Gráinne McGettrick (Ireland) and Macarena Espina Díaz (Chile).

The events created a potential to expand learning practices applied in the GBHI through the partnerships developed during ARTHEWE within the TCD, which is hosting the GBHI, as well as with other organizations/experts in Dublin, such as The Irish Museum of Modern Art with Bairbre-Ann Harkin in the forefront of inclusive programming, The Abbey Theatre, the national theatre of Ireland, with the practitioners Phil Kingston and Jenny McDonald, as well as those outside of Ireland: The Re-Live Theatre Company with Karin Diamond and Alison O’Connor in Wales, community researcher and economist Kim-Huong Nguyen (Australia/Vietnam), dance professionals Glenna Batson (USA), Aline Haas (Brazil), Magda Kaczmarska (USA/Poland), etc.

The report in PDF format can be downloaded here (GBHI website) or here:
Arthewe Multiform Pedagogies summary report for the Creativity and well-being for personal and professional growth programme 2023, PDF Format (ARTHEWE website).

 

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3. As part of the ARTHEWE project the partners practiced and used digital storytelling methods. A short digital story video (02:04 min) of the use of photography in, which was applied in a learning modality “Arts and Well-being: critical and experiential exploration”, was specifically co-developed by Jayne Peake (UK) and Ieva Petkutė (Lithuania) to reflect on the co-development practice within the programme “Health and Well-being Promotion through Creative Methods” at the University of West Attica (Greece).

The digital story can be accessed here (YouTube).