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Background: Two artist-researchers engaged in a year-long virtual collaboration using autoethnographic and arts-based methods to explore grief and loss.

Methods: Artistic inquiry supported emotional processing, well-being, self-understanding, and intuitive meaning making. Through painting, poetry, collage, and dialogue, they uncovered the following shared themes: emotions, visual and classical elements, and concepts of time.

Results: Findings highlight grief as a complex, non-linear, and spiritual experience marked by liminality.

Conclusion: The study demonstrates how collaborative, arts-based research can offer valuable tools for understanding, transforming, and making meaning of grief.

Background: Managing Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Primary Health Care requires not only clinical accuracy but also humanistic and reflective capacities. Simulation-based education that integrates theatrical and humanistic elements may foster these competencies. This study explores how a clinical simulation module shaped medical students' awareness of their role in chronic care, drawing on Balint's psychodynamic perspective and Aristotelian poetics.

Methods: A qualitative study was conducted during a T2DM simulation module with fourth-year medical students. Eighteen simulation sessions were observed, and ten in-depth interviews were carried out with students who acted as simulated doctors. Data from field notes and transcripts were analyzed using Clinical-Qualitative Content Analysis. Balint's concepts informed the reading of relational dynamics, while Aristotelian poetics offered a framework to interpret the symbolic and affective expressions emerging from the learning process.

Results: Students reported emotional resistance, anxiety, and fear of judgment when engaging with the simulation. These tensions were interpreted through Balintian ideas such as the doctor's self as a therapeutic instrument, the role of collegiality, and the psychodynamics of group learning. Three thematic axes emerged: availability to assume the medical role, precision in clinical reasoning, and group support or rivalry. These were further mapped onto poetic forms - tragic, comic, and epic - illuminating symbolic dimensions of professional identity formation.

Conclusions: Combining Balint's psychodynamic insights with poetic-symbolic interpretation in simulation may offer educators a humanizing and reflective strategy to support medical students in developing relational and clinical competencies for PHC.

Background: Learning from the challenges and successes of online arts delivery during the pandemic is crucially important for considering long-term sustainable solutions that enable people living with dementia to remotely participate in meaningful activities.

Methods: Twenty-eight arts workers responded to an online survey exploring i) the meaning of face-to-face arts activities that were replicated online, ii) perceived motivations to attend, iii) successes and challenges in adapting arts for online/socially distanced setting.

Results: Responses described arts giving structure and purpose to people living with dementia and their carers, a sense of community, and a way to reduce physical isolation. Success on digital delivery of arts depended on how inclusive practices were in relation to different abilities, technology experience and support levels.

Conclusions: Despite challenges, the range of interactions across activities demonstrated various ways for people living with dementia to make a contribution, feeding into the feelings of purpose and belonging in the online/digital community.

Background: This review evaluated the existing literature exploring the effects of arts-inclusive programs (AIPs) on the mental health and wellbeing of young children. AIPs include activities, programs, or interventions containing creative arts.

Methods: Literature searches were conducted across three databases (SCOPUS, psycINFO, and ERIC). The search was restricted to studies reporting outcomes of children 0-6 years.

Results: Nine studies were included in the review (3,671 participants). Three key themes were identified: music-related (n = 4); artmaking (n = 3); and storytelling/drama (n = 2). All included studies reported positive outcomes on children's wellbeing following engagement in AIPs.

Discussion: This review found emerging evidence demonstrating positive impacts of arts engagement on the wellbeing of children aged 0-6. However, most studies were low quality and used varying outcome measures. The review is one of the first to highlight the lack of high-quality studies on the relationship between AIPs and wellbeing in young children.

Background: The dance workforce plays a central role in delivering arts and health programmes yet there is little exploration of how programme delivery impacts dance artists in a professional or personal capacity. This study explored the experiences of dance artists delivering Dance On, which engages inactive older people 55yrs+.

Methods: Ripple Effects Mapping was used to explore the short- and long term experiences and practices of dance artists delivering a dance programme.

Findings: Two ripples were developed 1) Becoming a specialist 2) Connecting with communities. These ripples highlighted the strengths of the sustained nature of the programme and emphasised the need for ongoing support from employing organisations, communities, and dance artist peers.

Conclusion: This study showcases the central role dance artists play in upholding the outcomes we observe in arts and health work - their role, expertise, and commitment to programmes should be further illuminated and supported through ongoing discourse about their practice.

Background: In the context of ongoing underrepresentation of disabled people and shifts in the theatre industry, this article examines the significance of personal disability understandings and how these are interpreted in relation to the wellbeing of disabled people in theatre.

Methods: The findings presented are part of an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis; an interdisciplinary study detailing experiences of theatre practice and disability among professional actors and directors in theatres that are funded by Arts Council England.

Results: One of the six emergent themes from interviews, Navigating Inexperience of Disability in Theatre, assists in considering disability understandings and aspects of actors' wellbeing in this article. It details interpersonal and emotional competencies required of disabled people in day-to-day practice; these relate to confidence, risk, empathy, compromise, value, and contribution.

Conclusions: Routes to building accessibility in theatre are proposed as a shared and personal endeavour; value is placed on learning from disability as crucial in preserving wellbeing, creativity, and effective arts practices across disabled and non-disabled communities.

Introduction: Dance offers a unique lens for exploring mental well-being via the 4E cognition framework-embodied, embedded, extended, and enactive perspectives. Research has focused on embodied mindfulness, but broader cognitive potential remains underexplored.

Methods: Using a mixed-methods online design, 64 adult dancers (aged 21-45) from ten countries and diverse genres completed the Embodied Mindfulness Questionnaire and open-ended questions. Only the 'Connection to Body' subscale supported the hypothesis.

Results: Thematic analysis indicated that dancers achieve connection to the body through pathways distinct from embodied mindfulness, such as self-care.

Conclusion: Findings align with research on creativity, identity, and community. While offering new insights into connection to the body and style switching aspects of dance, highlighting dance's flexibility to meet wellbeing needs. Dancers also described developing cognitive and social skills, such as empathy and communication, that transfer to everyday life. Further research is warranted.

Background: A higher risk of psychosis among migrants and ethnic minorities, due to intersecting exposure to social disadvantage, exclusion and discrimination, has been reported. However, first-person experiences and perspectives regarding these topics have rarely been sought.

Methods: We aimed to explore the contexts, experiences, and perspectives of individuals with psychosis from diverse ethno-racial and migrant backgrounds through a qualitative study involving an in-depth interview and an arts-based component (cellphilming).

Results: Four themes were generated through thematic analysis: Facing adversity; Apart from the world; (Re)building structure; and meaning; and Cellphilming as possibility and connection. Themes portray the role of place and society in the lives and development of psychosis of participants.

Conclusions: Findings resonate with previous research on the impacts of social and structural disadvantage, particularly for minoritized populations. By framing these under particular contexts and life stories, our findings allow for contextualization and nuance, and a focus on what mattered the most for participants: hope, meaning, renewal and healing.

Background: Radical Connections' program "Unmasked Connections" provides virtual personalized and interactive arts performances to residents living in long-term care (LTC). This project assessed its impact on the quality of life (QoL) of residents, artists and staff.

Methods: Residents were paired with artists based on shared artistic interests for 40-minute virtual one-on-one sessions. Semi-structured interviews on QoL with 14 participants were transcribed, coded and analyzed using the Framework Method of analysis.

Results: Five artists, six residents, a recreation technician and two summer students participated in the interviews. The themes developed included 1) Happiness, Health and Gratitude; 2) Deep and Meaningful Connections; 3) Reminiscence and Nostalgia; and 4) Features of Delivery are Important. Artists expressed compassion and gratitude for the program and staff highlighted residents' excitement. Most participants recommended to others or wished to continue with "Unmasked Connections".

Conclusions: "Unmasked Connections" fostered meaningful interactions, improved emotional health and highlighted the important role of arts in healthcare.