Creative Huddles - What are they, then?
Tees Valley Arts have been beavering away making some creative headway at the Redcar Palace.
The idea behind the Creative Huddles
Huddles are interdisciplinary learning activities for small groups to use co-production and creativity to explore and resolve challenges in healthcare settings. The idea is to problem-solve issues by exploring the benefits of co-production in healthcare settings. Huddles are a learning programme, and the learning will be shared more widely across the NHS.
Principles of Huddles
● Creativity and lived experience at the heart of the Huddles
● Service users, participants, clinicians/health professionals, creative practitioners and managers work together
● Tests out new ways of working, resulting in changing or influencing health services, systems and commissioning
What a Huddle should include:
● A focus on mental health (doesn’t have to be just mental health services)
● Brings together a number of individual ‘stakeholders’ including service users; participants; clinicians/healthcare staff; creative practitioners; community or cultural organisations; public health; system managers. (NB. this is not an exhaustive list)
● People with lived experience
● Co-production approach to resolve challenges, explore gaps in provision, and offer a platform for equal partnership for equal benefit.
For more information on Huddles have a look here;
National Centre for Creative Health (ncch.org.uk)
You can sign up for the Creative Huddles by contacting Beth below;