On this week’s episode of the Creative Medicine Podcast, I speak to Artist Laura Poppitt  @poppitt.art  🎨

We speak about Laura’s journey with alcohol dependence and how she found art and creativity as an important part of her recovery and sobriety.

Laura is a super-talented artist and also a wonderful singer. She aims to develop a supportive community around creativity & well-being. Check out Laura on social media (links below) and find out more about her creative community.

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About Laura:

I am a sketch artist based Birmingham. My journey of sobriety from alcohol and art started in February 2018. I went from Rehab to a female dry house also attending courses with crisis skylight Birmingham which I received a Changing lives Grant for my art. I am now creating from home, selling on Etsy, and using social platforms for my art to view.

Follow Laura:

Instagram: @poppitt.art

Check out her page on Etsy

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Twitter @AmalLadMusic

Creative Medicine:

Instagram: @creativemedicineuk

www.creativemedicine.co.uk

On this week’s episode, I am speaking to GP and Medical Educator, Dr Louise Younie.

We explore the concept of creative enquiry and how we can bring develop the human dimension in medical education. Louise shares her own journey with recovery from breast cancer and how the future of arts in health, both from practitioner and patient well-being perspectives.

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About Louise:

Louise Younie (MBChB, MRCGP (dist), MSc (dist), EdD, SFHEA, NTF) is a GP and Clinical Reader in Medical Education at Queen Mary University of London where she leads on faculty development and innovation. She has extensive experience with creative enquiry methodologies in medical education for humanising medicine, professional identity formation and human flourishing. She is a Flourishing Fellow working across the whole of QMUL to explore co-creatively with students and staff, what it means to flourish. She has recently been made a National Teaching Fellow in recognition of this work (2022).

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Follow Louise on Twitter @LouiseYounie

More information about Louise’s work at: Creativeenquiry.qmul.ac.uk   

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Follow Amal:

Instagram @amal.lad

Twitter @AmalLadMusic

Creative Medicine:

Instagram: @creativemedicineuk

www.creativemedicine.co.uk

In this episode, I am very honoured to speak to Tim Joss - founder of the social enterprise - Aesop. We talk about Tim's passion for the arts and how Aesop is applying arts-based solutions to society's problems. We also talk about the Dance To Health programme and Prescribe-Arts social prescribing initiative. This was an interesting conversation which identifies the challenges faced by Arts & Health organisations and how we may be able to utilise social prescribing to bring more arts programmes to the health service.

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See you next time!

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About Tim Joss:

Tim is a social entrepreneur. He is the Chief Executive & Founder of Aesop – www.ae-sop.org and @AesopHealth. Aesop’s vision is ‘A future when arts solutions for society’s problems are valued and available for all who need them’. It runs Dance to Health, the national falls prevention dance programme – aiming to be the first arts programme which becomes a national health service. Aesop has also developed the first evaluation framework for arts and health, the first annual survey of health sector attitudes to the arts, university-accredited arts-and-health training for busy health and arts professionals and major national arts conferences and showcases for health decision-makers. 

Tim is a graduate in mathematics from Oxford University and in piano and composition from the Royal Academy of Music. His past activities include Artistic Director & Chief Executive of the Bath International Music Festival, Senior Manager at the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Chair of the International Society for Music Education’s Community Music Commission, Director of the Rayne Foundation and a founder of National Numeracy and the Arts Impact Fund (the first social investment fund for the arts). He was appointed a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government in 2005.

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Follow Amal:

Instagram @amal.lad

Twitter @AmalLadMusic

Creative Medicine:

Instagram: @creativemedicineuk

www.creativemedicine.co.uk