Join us for a free CPD-Accredited online workshop in partnership with Creative Health facilitator Seiwa Cunningham.
Flourishing Lives, the Flourishing Lives Advisory Group (FLAG), and Seiwa Cunningham invite you to part two of our free online forum, discussing themes of agency and co-creation when working with People Living with Dementia. (Please note: you do not need to have attended part one of the discussion to join or benefit from this session!)
We are delighted to announce that ‘An ABC of Creative Dementia Interventions: Agency, Best Practice & Co-creation’ has received accreditation from the CPD Standards Office (CPDSO) as a Continuing Professional Development module for those working in the creative health sector. This is part of Flourishing Lives’ free new CPD-accredited training programme, ‘Experts by Experience – Developing Older People’s Leadership & Co-Production in Arts & Wellbeing Services for Older People‘. Attendees will receive a CPD Certificate for taking part in this free workshop.
Creative Health facilitator Seiwa Cunningham will share her learnings on an innovative project involving People Living with Dementia, activity providers, and a Community Engagement and Outreach Manager. All collaborated, consulted on and devised a series of creative workshop sessions. Residents of The Margaret Thatcher Infirmary at the Royal Hospital Chelsea then played host to residents from another local care home, as they took part in nature-based sessions relating to the history of the Chelsea Pensioners.
In this open forum discussion, we invite you to join in by sharing ideas and working together to empower greater opportunities for agency and co-creation at the heart of Creative Dementia interventions.
People Living with Dementia, professional carers, family carers, activity providers, commissioners, funders, freelancers, and arts and wellbeing practitioners, join the forum and let’s talk!
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 session 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.
About Seiwa Cunningham:
Seiwa Cunningham | LinkedIn
Seiwa Cunningham (@redalloverart) Instagram photos and videos
Artist
Carer & Dementia Advocate
Creative Health Workshop Facilitator
Expert by Experience
Reminiscence and Cognitive Stimulation Therapy Practitioner
I am a textile artist and have been facilitating creative workshops since 1985. My audiences have included children, families, adults and those with both physical and learning disabilities, and I have many years of experience working in museums, galleries, hospitals and schools. Since 2004 I have taken training and continually developed my practice to concentrate on engagement with People Living with Dementia (PLWD) and their carers. Following my mother’s diagnosis of Lewy Body Dementia, I became her carer, giving me eight years of lived experience. For three years during that period, I also worked as a social carer in Camden.
In 2024 I was Programme Director for Arts in Care Homes, a National Day established by NAPA, the National Activity Providers Association.
Between 2022 and 2023, I was Programme Manager for Memories of London, the London Museum’s engagement programme for PLWD and also managed the Dementia-Friendly Venues Network on behalf of the GLA. The GLA later commissioned me to create a pilot Assessment Framework for the Mayor of London’s Dementia-Friendly Venues Charter and I have submitted a report commissioned by the London Museum as part of their Flourishing Neighbourhoods Programme.
I continue to run creative workshops for PLWD in care homes and for museums and other cultural organisations and also focus on advocacy for PLWD and their family carers, curating discussions and provocations around health inequalities and creative health; using the arts as a vehicle for well-being.
Join us to share ideas, refine your working practices, and meet other progressive people who are striving to innovate and excel in services for older people.
Date:
Tuesday 9th September, 11.30am-1pm BST