Join us for a free online creative workshop, designed and facilitated by Jemilea Wisdom-Baako (Writerz & Scribez CIC), exploring cultural humility, creative reflection, and practical steps for anti-racist action across arts & wellbeing.
Flourishing Lives and the Anti-Racist Action Group (ARAG) in Arts & Wellbeing invite you to our latest online discussion as part of our ongoing series funded by The National Lottery Community Fund.
We are delighted to be working in partnership with Jemilea Wisdom-Baako, a poet, creative health practitioner and anti-racism trainer, to design and facilitate this session.
In this session we will explore:.
- Reflecting on our pieces of the mosaic – using creative exercises to identify what we are doing well, and the strengths we already bring to anti-racist practice.
- Cultural humility as a building block – approaching anti-racism as a lifelong practice of reflection, empathy and curiosity, recognising the importance of our own self-work in shaping the whole.
- Noticing the gaps – surfacing barriers, blind spots and inequities that fracture the mosaic of practice in our sector.
- Co-creating the picture – developing action points for change that move us from individual pieces towards a more connected and equitable whole, drawing on tools like the Race Equity Maturity Index (REMI) and the Creative Health Quality Framework.
A Mosaic of Practice
A mosaic is strongest when each unique piece is recognised, valued and connected. In the same way, anti-racism in arts and wellbeing is not one action but a collective practice made up of many parts: lived experience, co-production, accountability, creativity, and care. By working towards a mosaic of practice, we commit to centring racial equity principles, sharing power, and embedding justice in the structures of our organisations and the sector.
About Jemilea Wisdom-Baako
Jemilea Wisdom-Baako is a poet, creative health practitioner and cultural disruptor whose work sits at the intersection of arts, health and racial equity. She is the Founder and Creative Director of Writerz & Scribez CIC, a Black-led organisation using creativity to dismantle barriers and co-create spaces of healing, connection and systemic change.
With over a decade of experience in community-rooted practice, Jemilea has designed and delivered programmes across schools, libraries, hospitals, prisons and cultural institutions. Her approach is rooted in co-production, trauma-informed methods, and cultural humility, placing lived experience at the centre of both creative process and organisational change.
Alongside leading Writerz & Scribez, Jemilea is the Creative Health Officer for Wandsworth Council as part of the borough’s London Borough of Culture 2025 programme, and a Non-Executive Director of the Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance. She has collaborated with organisations including Battersea Arts Centre, King’s College London, the National Maritime Museum, the Fitzwilliam Museum, and Croydon Council.
An award-winning poet, Jemilea brings language, imagination and care into her facilitation, creating spaces that are reflective, challenging and transformative. Her current work focuses on embedding anti-racism, racial equity and cultural humility as core practices in the arts and health sectors, asking what it would mean to not only be excellent in delivery, but fearless in dismantling the structures that cause harm.
About The Anti-Racist Action Group in Arts & Wellbeing:
The Anti-Racist Action Group in Arts & Wellbeing is a group of representatives from arts, wellbeing and race equality charities – including Flourishing Lives, HEAR Network, Race Equality Foundation, Decolonising the Archive, and Southwark Culture Health and Wellbeing Partnership – who partner with ethnically and culturally diverse organisations, facilitators, community groups, participants and people to share their knowledge, expertise, learning and lived experience to support the wider arts and wellbeing sector to explore anti-racist action, and develop wider engagement in the arts and mental health. The aim is to facilitate conversations, deepen understanding and identify opportunities for change.
This discussion is part of an ongoing series of workshops and roundtables kindly funded by The National Lottery Community Fund which support Flourishing Lives and the Anti-Racist Action Group to explore a range of topics, issues and anti-racist actions to help advocate for inclusive practice across the arts and wellbeing sector.
Supporting people to participate:
We recognise it can sometimes be hard to attend events if you’re self employed or work part time, if you are a volunteer for a project or are the only person working in a community organisation, so we are offering a limited amount of financial support to ensure everyone who wants to attend is able to. For this event we can offer a £50 bursary to five participants. Unfortunately funds are limited so we can’t support everyone, and will be allocating on a first come first served basis once the criteria is met. When you register for the workshop you will have the option to apply for one of the bursary places. On review we will be in touch with those who have been successful in receiving the financial support.
Join us to share ideas and advocate for inclusive practice and anti-racist action across the arts and wellbeing sector.
Date:
Tuesday 28th October 2025, 11am – 1pm GMT