The artistic medium we have found works best in hospitals is animation. This process uses a broad range of art forms such as storytelling, visual arts, building scale sets, making characters, animating the characters and finally finding a voice for your character. This means that there is something to engage everyone. Creating an animation also requires people to develop their communication skills, team work, problem solving, commitment to attend the sessions and a lot of patience which can be a real challenge for people in psychiatric hospitals.
This animation has been created by our second Reach Out group. A project lead by SAMH, Reach Out brings groups of 6-8 individuals together to allow them to p...