Dalarna County Council Culture and education

Kre-health is a tool for increased public health and employment, a path to increased self-awareness and context through own creation and cultural experiences. With creative expressions and creative processes as tools, the healthy is strengthened. A strengthened individual has an easier time facing society's challenges, whether it is about exclusion, stress or illness. The Kre-health model has been created because cultural activities contribute to positive effects on a physiological, biological and emotional level by increasing creativity and creating a sense of meaning and connection. It also improves memory capacity, speeds up learning, creates new connections between the brain's various networks and stimulates emotions and behaviors that make life easier to live.
Kre-health is a conceptualized training program with art and culture as tools to strengthen the individual's self-awareness and sense of meaning and context with the aim of promoting health and employment. Kre-health can inspire those who want to learn more about the connection between culture and health or who want to take responsibility for their own health and participate in health-promoting activities. The exercise program is suitable for people who are unemployed, on sick leave or at risk of mental illness, stress and burnout. The Kre-health program consists of ten meetings and has been implemented with good results in the county.
The training program was developed with the support of EU funds and in collaboration with Skådebanan Dalarna and Finsam Samordningsförbund Falun and Västerbergslagen.