Mapping of Initiatives on Culture, Health and Well-being

Creative methods are used to practice failure and address the fear of making mistakes. Internship in an accepting atmosphere strengthens young people's life skills to make the transition to education and employment easier. The project was nationwide implemented.
Tenho was implemented in 2015–2018. Young people without an education or a job took part in the project's art workshops in six different locations in Finland. The Tenho project organized workshops on film, circus and theater. In the workshops, young people became acquainted with themselves, learned to work with other people, set goals for themselves and committed to achieving them.

Culture and Well-being Pool is an expert body consisting of national culture and well-being actors, the aim of which is to strengthen the inclusion of culture & well-being into holistic well-being, rehabilitation, preventive services, education in various fields and working life. National communities and actors who promote culture and well-being as part of holistic well-being and accept the purpose and common operating methods of the Culture and Well-being Pool can become members of the Culture and Well-being Pool. Nationwide umbrella organizations represent their own member organizations.

Development and inculcation of the attendance clown form of work into pediatric surgery in university hospitals (HYKS; TAYS; TYKS). The activity frees up the resources of the nursing staff for the actual nursing work, while the clown takes care of the emotional and preparatory part of the child and the family. Measures are speeding up because children are better prepared for the situation. Among other things, the delays caused by fear are reduced. Recovery from the procedure is faster because the form of work allows for a reduction in premedication. Situations are perceived as more pleasant, and the amount of pain experienced is less.

Socom is looking for solutions to critical points that prevent artists from finding employment in the social and health sectors. It models the artist’s place in the day-to-day activities of older people as a single content producer, including explanations of funding models, earnings logic, and taxation of the artist’s work in the social security sector. The Center of Expertise has the opportunity to transfer the expertise of the art well-being industry into the basic, special and expert services for the social centres. In addition, the Center of Expertise examines funding models and identifies problem areas in the taxation of the artist's work (especially VAT) so that the taxation corresponds to the taxation of social services in the services of the elderly.

The Lapland Hospital District Association of Municipalities' Art Reaches project disseminates art activities to various units of the Lapland Hospital District. The aim is to increase and develop co-operation between actors in the free field providing art services and the Lapland Hospital District, to try different ways to implement art activities in a medical institution, to create practices for organizing art activities and to evaluate and document practical models important for success. Art Reaches project improves the accessibility of art and incorporates art activities into the various units of the Lapland Hospital District. The artistic content of the project consists of performance and concert visits: theatre, dance, circus and music performances on community art projects/workshops: draws attention to the role and commitment of staff in the implementation of artistic activities, training in the use of art-based methods.

Aili is a network of cultural senior and elderly work formed by municipal actors. The task of the network is to strengthen the cultural work of seniors and the elderly in municipalities and future provinces by building a permanent co-operation network between experts working in different fields. The municipalities involved in the project are Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa, Pukkila, Turku, Tampere, Kouvola, Seinäjoki, Jyväskylä, Vaasa, Kuopio, Oulu and Rovaniemi. From each municipality, a representative from the social, health and cultural activities participates in the network.

Project in which sustainable and replicable models for implementing cultural and artistic activities are developed and tested, and regional co-operation is modelled. The activities use a variety of participatory art methods and a wide range of different art forms (including music, dance, circus, theatre and visual arts). Art and cultural activities are carried out in a participant-oriented way in different operating environments. The project is based on confidential and interactive cooperation between cultural and SOTE partners, extensive expertise in the laws of different SOTE and cultural structures, the life situations and operating environments of the participants. The activities use a variety of participatory art methods and a wide range of different art forms (including music, dance, circus, theater and visual arts). Art and cultural activities are carried out in a participant-oriented way in different operating environments; at the participants and in cultural institutions.

The aim of extending the principle of percentage art is to improve the accessibility of art and culture and thus promote the well-being effects of art. This will be done by increasing the supply and use of different arts and cultural services in the care and client work of social and health care. The long-term goal is to make arts and culture-based welfare services an established part of social and health care structures and the monitoring of well-being. The expansion of the principle of percentage art was part of Juha Sipilä's Government's flagship program Improving the Accessibility of Art and Culture. The project had two lines: development projects and guided experiments.

Senior theater project began in January 2014, in a joint work between the social action sector and the culture sector of Silves municipality, in 4 locations: Silves, S.B. de Messines, Armação de Pêra, Tunes.
The aim is to provide theater workshops for elderly over 60+ years old to foster an active mind in a healthy body and promote active aging; to promote the practice of art to people who are not very familiar with the theater; to create a safe community where elderly can feel free of sharing ideas, their knowledge and implication for their performances; to foster the appreciation culture from the public's reaction after the performance. The idea of the project is to create autonomous groups of elderly that are willing to create theatrical moment by themselves and can go on the stage freely. Workshops are being done with the groups on their creativity, collective intelligence, group dynamic and inclusion, writing a text for a performance, healthy behaviours, etc.

Hearing Voices is a project by Marionet, in partnership with MOV (Hearing Voices Movement – Portugal), CES (University of Coimbra Center for Social Studies (CES) and Radio Aurora of Hospital Júlio de Matos, that intends to deal artistically with the hearing voices phenomena, depicting its significance, sensory perception, changes over time, moments of crisis but also of alternatives, and its place in creating a narrative of the self. Most recent research indicates that 4% of western people hears voices. The aim is exploring the ways through which voices can act as important social, cultural and political forces. This project is framed by the activity on the intersection of Theatre and Science, and the exploring of ways to articulate these two fields in the transmission of knowledge. What is proposed, thus, is the creation and public presentation of a theatre show that can foster reflection on the phenomena, together with several other initiatives aimed at a wider promotion of the theme. They are applying research-based theatre methodology, interviewing voice hearers and their caretakers, wherefrom they build the show’s dramaturgy. Aside from that, a sound installation was created to simulate the hearing voices experience, roundtables were held on the theme, podcasts were recorded and promoted together with Radio Aurora, and a set of articles published by the newspaper Público. The whole process was registered on video, with the aim of producing a documentary afterwards. An inquiry is also to be made to the audience of the spectacle so as to evaluate the project’s impact and the effectiveness of an interdisciplinary initiative of this nature. Concerning social intervention, this project means to foster understanding of the hearing voices phenomena as well as the diversity of ways in which it is understood and experienced, defying stereotypes, fighting stigma and discrimination, and promoting positive responses to related experiences, bolstering consciousness of the variegated ways to deal with confusing or difficult voices, creating safe spaces for sharing and involving the media in presenting realistic depictions of the hearing voices phenomena and related experiences.