ABOUT CREATIVE WELLNESS

Creativity is a ready remedy for everyone, everywhere, every day. It’s an essential life skill and our most renewable and valuable natural resource. Creative thinking, doing, and being engenders a positive growth mindset that helps us survive and thrive. It is an authentic human quality, not artificial, that inspires expression, animates purpose, and illuminates passion. Art is all the products of human creativity. We can create good health and a good life.

Wellness is a dynamic, hopeful state of positive health in mind, body and spirit, in any moment and in any environment, that nurtures creative potential in all aspects of living. It exalts our best qualities and is an empowered state that takes time to develop. It’s not a product or elitist state, it’s sovereign whole well-being. Wellness is a healthy personal balance. 

Creative wellness is the measure of our health, happiness, and creativity. It happens when we are art-making, the experience of creating; art-taking, experiencing what is created; or art-giving, sharing a creative experience. The everyday creative things we do are a way to wellness.

A benefit of creativity is stress reduction. Less stress = more wellness. It’s essential to managing illness and maintaining homeostasis. Creative wellness is self-care. It supports overall health, teaches new skills, boosts energy and self-confidence, nurtures community connections, and enriches everyday life.

For seekers interested in learning more, here are ways to begin. Discover and get involved with community organizations and educational activities that support opportunities for creative wellness enrichment.

Creative Wellness Resource List