#DancingInThePark #MHAW #BodyImage
Next week is Mental Health Awareness Week, and the theme is Body Image. All of us live with our bodies as they evolve and change. Just as all of us have a role in shaping an inclusive culture where we help others feel comfortable in their own skin. Read more here. We have been opening up this conversation in the studio - the bodies strengths, wonders, limitations and the close links to mental health. We have been doing this through dance, movement, play, mark making and we ha
That's a puzzler
What is a safe space? Well that's a puzzler? Truth is, I have no idea. I think it is a poor choice of phrase. I don't think it is a physical space at all, I think it is more about the people you surround yourself with, and the atmosphere that's created when good people come together. As daunting as Designs in Mind may have been, walking through that door for the first time, I was immediately made welcome. I was treated as valid. It had been so long since I had interacted with
