BrandX Artist-2-Artist: learn all about Creative Caring with Diane Busuttil

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Start: 8^th November, 2025 at 11:00am

End: 8^th November, 2025 at 1:30pm

WORKSHOP LENGTH: 2.5 hours

LOCATION: City of Sydney Creative Studios (CoSCS) 

photo taken by Darinka Maja at Legs on The Wall

Facilitated by Diane Busuttil, this workshop offers an immersive, practice-based insight into Creative Caring. A movement-led methodology for engaging older adults and people in clinical environments through dance, theatre, and co-creative care.

Designed for artists of any discipline who are interested in socially-engaged art making and keen to integrate care-led methods into their own practice, this session will explore how to adapt artistic processes for aged care and hospital settings. Participants will learn how to modify movement for varied mobility levels, engage people with cognitive impairments through non-verbal techniques, and enhance inclusion without compromising artistic integrity.

Through playful improvisation, attentive presence, and short choreographic explorations, the workshop invites artists to embody care, empathy, and creativity within institutional and clinical settings. Over 2.5 hours, we will also reflect on the evolving role of the artist as caregiver, offering tools for deep listening, ethical facilitation, and sustainable self-care.

Expected Learning Outcomes:

• Develop deep listening as a foundation for care-led creative practice.

• Adapt movement and theatre activities for diverse physical and cognitive needs.

• Understand the Creative Caring model: its structure, philosophy, and application.

• Learn how creative tools can enhance wellbeing and connection in medical spaces, with attention to dementia support.

• Explore art as social medicine and its role in health and community settings.

  
  

Who Is This For:

Artists, dancers, theatre-makers, educators, and care professionals from any discipline who are interested in socially engaged, inclusive, and health-informed creative practice; Especially those seeking to adapt these approaches to their own work.