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St John's
Introduction
The Psychological Therapies Service at St John's approached us last year asking
if there was anything we could do to brighten up the waiting area and public corridors of their department. The waiting area and corridors have no natural light and are quite gloomy. After meeting with staff, we all agreed that it made a lot
of sense to have works created by staff and outpatients brighten the walls of the department.
We invited artist Vanessa Lawrence to develop a 5 week making workshop, with one workshop in the morning and one in the afternoon, to ensure that as many people as possible involved with the service could get involved.
The department staff team have been brilliant and taken the work on board with gusto! We wanted to have two sets of workshops, one morning and another in
the afternoon and we asked participants to sign up for the entire 5 weeks to give them time to make something beautiful. We originally
asked that one member of staff would take part in each of the sessions, and have been delighted to see that this has been over subscribed! We love it when we are met with this level of enthusiasm, as it usually leads to a pretty successful outcome.
All participants have been brilliant. We are really impressed and excited by the level of creativity and skill they have brought to the workshops. Concentration in the room is palpable, although we still nd time to talk about our favourite
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Workshops
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