Creativity In Care

17/06/2026

Join this online event with the fabulous Green Tree Arts Studio as part of this years Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival Highland.

🌙✨ Layers of Dreams ✨🌙

A FREE 7-Week Online Creative Programme

Have you ever woken with a dream, image, colour or feeling that stayed with you throughout the day?

Sometimes dreams arrive as fragments, symbols, landscapes and stories. Through creativity, we can gently explore what lingers and what matters.

As part of the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival Highland 2026, we are delighted to be offering *Layers of Dreams* a free 7-week online mixed-media art programme inspired by this year's festival theme:

💭 "Reflections"

Together we will explore:

🚪 Entering the Dream Space
🪶 Fragments & Traces
🌿 Dream Landscapes
🦉 Figures, Animals & Presences
🌉 Thresholds & Transitions
🌳 Roots, Belonging & Collective Dreaming
✨ Gathering the Threads

Through art-making, reflection, imagination and connection, we will create a gentle space to explore identity, belonging, hope and the stories we carry.

🎨 No previous art experience necessary

🌙 You do not need to remember your dreams

🏡 Join from the comfort of your own home

Participants will also be warmly invited (if they wish) to contribute artwork to this year's Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival Highland exhibition at Eden Court.

📅Sessions will start on Wednesdays 22nd July – 2nd September 2026

We wish to be as inclusive as possible so 2 options for timeslots will be offered for participants to select. 10:30am or 4:30pm.
The most popular choice will be selected for the group to run.

Free to attend. Places are limited and booking is essential.

Scan the QR code on the flyer or contact:

📧 [email protected]
📞 What's App 07860 867118

"Dreams often arrive as fragments, colours, feelings and symbols. Through creativity, we can gently explore what lingers and what matters."

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12/06/2026

Join Karrie for this insightful and supportive four-part online session starting Tuesday 4th August.

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As promised - some dates and requested topics for people who support their families. Although initially aimed at people with dementia care experiences, people agree the topics are relevant to many different health conditions. Feel free to book the first session alone by contacting me here. Starts August 4th (evening) live, online. There will be more information on the website next week.

25/05/2026

Please go along and support our collaborative friends at Centred Scot and The Discovery College on what is going to be a great afternoon!

🎤 The incredible Fraser Morgan is coming to Inverness!

His powerful songs about mental health have resonated with so many people across the country.

Check him out below and come and watch Fraser at the The Bike Shed - Events Venue/Coffee House on Saturday 13 June, with support from upcoming Inverness musician MØSS.

Proceeds go towards Centred Scot and The Discovery College mental health support in the Highlands.

🎟️Info and tickets - https://centred.scot/events/

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Discover events for the leading mental health charity in Inverness and the Highlands, enjoy a night out and raise funds.

23/05/2026

👣​ Creativity In Care is so looking forward to joining in this year's 20th birthday celebrations of the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival by being at the 'Walk A Mile In Our Shoes' event taking place in Inverness on Saturday 4th July.

Whether you’ve faced challenges yourself, supported someone you love, or simply believe no one should suffer in silence, this walk is for you.

🧠 Walk for awareness.
💙 Walk for connection.
👟 Walk to show that every journey matters.

Bring your friends, your family, your co-workers, and your community spirit. Let’s turn one mile into a movement.

Because understanding begins when we walk beside each other.

20/05/2026

We have loved following the work that Rural Health Equity have been creating in Wick.

🏃‍♀️​ If you are in the Kinlochleven area get yourself along!

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18/05/2026

Community, Collaboration and Caithness with Creativity In Care.

The Community Led Local Development fund administered by Highland Third Sector Interface gives rural communities the power to tackle their own local challenges, responding to the needs of their local area and supporting positive change.

By building knowledge and skills, supporting new ideas and encouraging cooperation, CLLD helps to create viable and resillient communities like ours in Caithness.

Special thanks to Isla Mackay, Raquel Caithness, Jock MacGroatie and Vikki Mackenzie for sharing your inspiring story - 'People In A Landscape' with our captive audience at The Discovery College, Wick.

12/05/2026

Creativity In Care is absolutely delighted to share our news with you that collaborating alongside Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival Highland, UHI Inverness and Highlands Psychoanalytical Collective we have successfully secured funding through Highland Third Sector Interface's Communities Mental Health & Wellbeing Fund for Adults for the next two years.

As an introduction to this project, UHI Inverness and Highlands Psychoanalytic Collective are inviting you to the Highlands Dream Bank meeting this Thursday 14th May 3-4pm.

The Highlands Dream Bank is a creative way to bring people together across the highlands and share what psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas called ‘the unthought known’. Against the trends of hurried activity and unlimited information at our fingertips, we will invite people from across the highlands to slow down and gently tune into their inner life. The collection, analysis and artwork creation from dreams will have a 6-month long pilot phase followed by an 18-month long main phase.

Below is a link to the recording of an intro talk with Sarah Fielding of the Highlands Psychoanalytical Collective followed by a Q&A with staff and students at UHI.

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Please do get in touch if you would like to be part of this amazing project!

I would also like to thank Keith Walker, Director of Creativity In Care, Marc Archer and Mari Todd, UHI Inverness, Sarah Fielding, Highlands Psychoanalytical Collective and Bonnie, Daniel and Graeme, Directors of SMHAF Highland for all the hard work you put into securing this funding and for your inspiring creative vision.

Donna Murray
Project Manager

12/05/2026

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10/05/2026

👏👏👏 Please take to the comments section and give a massive round of applause to the fabulous actors who participated in our 'People In A Landscape' project.

🌿 Surrounded by the backdrop of their artwork, they became part of the story they created.

As one participant said of the drama workshop 'it all started from 3 words!'

Thank you to both George Gunn, poet and playwright for partnering up with Creativity In Care and to The Discovery College.

👥 And a special thanks to the audience who came from far and wide to show their support and appreciation. And for participating in the valuable Q & A after show talk.

Grateful thanks to Highland Third Sector Interface who supported this project through the Community-Led Local Development fund. By building knowledge and skills, supporting new ideas and encouraging cooperation, CLLD helps to create viable and resilient communities.

04/05/2026

🙋‍♀️ Come with us as we explore deeper into The Flow Country with Shadanah, a talented creative who participated in our 'People In A Landscape' project, held at The Discovery College in Caithness.

👣 Raising awarenes to leave only footprints on the landscape, led to valuable discussions around the impact of human activity on our fragile ecosystems. This was then incorporated into the participant's presentation with poet and playwright George Gunn.

🌺 How fabulous are Shadanah's delicate and colourful flora drawings, which became inspiration for her magnificant 3d multi-media flower?

Grateful thanks to Highland Third Sector Interface for funding this project through the Community-Led Local Development fund.

Photo : Artist Shadanah alongside her artwork
Photo credit : Donna Murray