Light Box believes in the power of human creativity. It has started a movement in Bristol that brings diverse communities together on a journey towards mental well-being.
Our work reduces mental health stigma, increases resilience and helps people to make tangible improvements to their lives.
Light Box presents mental health in a whole new light: as an exciting, empowering, social phenomenon, an act of creation, and a continuum on which we’re all placed.
We want to invite your to view our Project Report, for which Light Box worked with Willis Newson and the University of West England’s Arts and Health Research Programme. Follow these links for a viewable and downloadable .pdf of the project report and/or a shorter summary of the report.
Light Box project report
Light Box Project Report Summary
The Happiness Project 2011 exceeded all expectations with an additional 6 months of workshops running after the completion of the proposed 3-month project.
January 2012 sees the publication of our 2011 Project Report and after the great success of last year; Light Box is currently working on developing an ongoing service.
With so much positive response and support, it won’t be long before we’ve raised the funds to be holding our free public workshops again.
A short interview which took place in the shop and describes The Happiness Project in a nutshell.
We are currently enlisting for our fully funded two 10-week courses of closed (non-public) workshops;
- Vulnerable women starting Thursday 9th February 10.00-12.00 and every Thursday 10.00-12.00 until and including 12th April 2012
- Vulnerable young people (aged 16-25) Thursday 9th February 14.00-16.00 and every Thursday 14.00-16.00 until and including 12th April 2012
Places available for clients and service users of South West based support services. For further information with regards to registering by informal referral for these free places, please contact Kathryn on 01173 290908 or emailinfo@wearelightbox.co.uk with the subject header ’10 week courses’
Other opportunities for you to access Light Box
- Bespoke work-place based workshops on improving staff well-being (Contact us for a free consultation)
- Staff team-building days taught at Light Box HQ (Contact us for a free consultation)
- Free introductory taster sessions for support service organisations
- A free online workshop accessed through our Facebook page and website mid-February
We are located in The Galleries, Broadmead, Bristol. Description of the workshops we offer:
- Gratitude: Book binding and decorating (using typewriters, drawing inks and wooden letterpress) gratitude cards and a ‘5 good things’ journal
- Appreciation of Beauty: Taking photographs using Lomography cameras and making camera lenses from vibrant acetate.
- Character Strengths: Creating a ‘strengths board’, blind-drawing portraits on paper and balloons.
- Goals: Making collages depicting goals and aspirations symbolically.
- Nurture and Kindness: Selecting, smashing and mosaic making using reclaimed tiles. Potting an avocado plant and taking it home to nurture.
- Savoring and Flow: Creating mobiles using collage, drawing inks, shells, feathers, flowers and lamination machines.
- Humour and Playfulness: Dismantling and reconstructing toys to make hybrid characters with personalities. Kinetic drawing in booths using drawing straps loaded with pastels.
- Confidence: Making a large scale, multi-colored paper sculpture.
- Vitality 1: Using papier-mâché to create and smash up a health food piñata.
- Vitality 2: Creating a drawing spinning-top, using pencil gloves and mouth sticks to draw on wall-mounted paper, and making bouncy ball drawings.
Here is our Facebook page
Please see the ‘About’ page for more information on who we are.
