Good Arts Good Mental Health

05/08/2026

⭐️ It was a great pleasure to present at the 2026 CircuitWest showcase yesterday. Thank you for the opportunity to talk about the Good Arts Good Mental Health initiative and evaluation results (eg. 89% Community agreement that arts impacts mental wellbeing!) ⭐️ The campaign was co-designed with more than 3500 Australians, 31 project partners, a community reference group, government mentor group, and 6 funding partners: the Future Health Research Innovation Fund, the The Ian Potter Foundation, Minderoo Foundation, St John of God Health Care, CircuitWest and CITS 😊

⭐️ Don’t forget
- there are free arts-mental health resources and learning videos on the GAHMH website ➡️ https://goodartsgoodmentalhealth.com.au
- “You don’t have to be good at art for the arts to be good for you” Dr Christina Davies ⭐️

16/11/2025

Check this out! Excited to announce that Good Arts, Good Mental Health has a European sister! ⭐️ More Arts, More Wellbeing ⭐️ A total pleasure to collaborate on this project, which is the wonderful work of the platform and CARE (Culture for Mental Health Project).

13/10/2025

UWA Research Impact Story 🎹🎧🎭💃🏻📚🎨 Good Arts Good Mental Health & the art of mental wellbeing ➡️ tinyurl.com/yvsazyn8

10/10/2025

⭐Arts Challenge 4 World Mental Health Day⭐ Whether it’s , , , , , , and so much more … why not get a ‘dose’ of the arts that makes you feel good this World Mental Health Day. If you don’t know where to start the Good Arts, Good Mental Health website has lots of suggestions, learning videos and resources including a 5-day Arts Challenge to get your mental health enhancing creativity flowing. Don’t forget - you don’t have to be good at art for the arts to be good for you. See the GAGMH website (campaign section) ➡️ https://goodartsgoodmentalhealth.com.au 😊Arts dose paper (2hrs per week): http://goo.gl/6usL8H

04/10/2025

Check this out! Excited to announce that Good Arts, Good Mental Health has a European sister! ⭐️ More Arts, More Wellbeing ⭐️ This is the wonderful work of the platform & CARE (Culture for Mental Health Project).

02/10/2025

⭐️The message “Good Arts, Good Mental Health” achieved 89% community agreement & 42% intention to act ⭐️Thankyou to the Culture and Health platform for the opportunity to keynote your 2025 conference in Turku, Finland to present our Western Australian campaign to an EU audience ⭐️GAGMH was co-designed with more than 3500 Australians, 31 project partners, a community reference group, government mentor group, and 6 funding partners: the Future Health Research Innovation Fund, The Ian Potter Foundation, Minderoo Foundation, St John of God Health Care, Department of Creative Industries, Tourism and Sport & CircuitWest ⭐️ Don’t forget - there are FREE arts-mental health resources and learning videos on the GAGMH website ⭐️“You don’t have to be good at art for the arts to be good for you” ⭐️

30/09/2025

Excited to announce that Good Arts, Good Mental Health has a European sister! ⭐️ More Arts, More Wellbeing ⭐️ A total pleasure to advise on this project, which is the wonderful work of , the Culture for Health platform , and CARE (Culture for Mental Health Project).

25/09/2025

⭐️ Thank you EUREGHA - European Regional and Local Health Authorities for the opportunity to talk about Arts, Health & the Good Arts, Good Mental Health campaign. Really enjoyed presenting, the discussion, and hearing about the amazing arts-health work happening in the EU from my outstanding colleagues:
✅ Monica Urian, Policy Officer, DG Education and Culture (DG EAC), European Commission
✅ Nils Fietje, Technical Officer, Behavioural and Cultural Insights Unit, WHO Regional Office for Europe
✅ Broula Barnohro Oussi, PhD, Strategist, Competence Centre for Culture and Health, Region Stockholm
✅ Mikkel Ottow, Special Consultant in Health and Culture, Central Denmark EU Office, Central Denmark Region
✅ Kornelia Kiss, Head of Culture and Health, Culture Action Europe
✅ Michele Calabro’, Director, EUREGHA - European Regional and Local Health Authorities

Don’t forget ….There are free arts-mental health resources and learning videos on the GAGMH website goodartsgoodmentalhealth.com.au -and- “You don’t have to be good at art for the arts to be good for you” ⭐️

26/08/2025

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1594846/full

IntroductionThis study describes and evaluates Good Arts, Good Mental Health® (GAGMH), a groundbreaking, population-level, arts-mental health promotion media...

18/08/2025

Ever wonder whether mental wellbeing can be uplifted by participation in the arts?

This study describes and evaluates Good Arts, Good Mental Health® (GAGMH), a groundbreaking, population-level, arts-mental health promotion media campaign designed to empower the general population to form an intention to engage in the Arts for their mental wellbeing.

READ: https://tinyurl.com/39kdt328