Our Mission
Our Mission
Our Mission
Photography can act as a powerful catalyst to help people:
- engage with nature
- become more mindful
- increase time being active
- enhance creativity
- make social connections
Our Approach
Our Mission
Our Mission
At Well Image CIC, we run non-competitive, inclusive courses.
Training is provided, which enable people to use photography as a visual language to express themselves and explore their creativity.
Nature is a core theme explored across many genres of photography. People can engage in our courses whether they use a phone or a camera to make images.
Our Services
Our Mission
Our Services
We offer a range of services at Well Image CIC
- six week courses in small groups online
- in person courses
- one to one sessions
- in person half day sessions
WORKING WITH ORGANISATIONS SUPPORTING MENTAL HEALTH
Our partipants love that we help focus people on making new positive memories.
During our sessions and focus groups, we support those who come to us with a multitude of challenges which have included:
anxiety, grief, depression, fybromialgia, Long COVID, M.E., P.T.S.D, a recent health diagnosis , a life changing event, financial difficulties or relationship breakdown.
Our courses can be tailored to specific groups.
HOW WE SUPPORT mental health
Our aims
Well Image, as an innovation, tackles health disparities and inequalities facing some of society's most isolated individuals. We have a holistic approach.
Our work aims to facilitate creative expression, build confidence and foster connections, playing an essential part in supporting mental health.
Our methods have been impactful for those with a long term health condition, a disability or high level of anxiety, many of whom are unable to leave their homes.
This is a timely innovation, using digital technology and the popularity of photography to instil an increased sense of ownership for those who feel unheard and underserved. Well Image aims to:
- Connect the most isolated in our society through the joy of photography helping participants express themselves and tell their own stories.
- Use it’s methods to enhance mental health using our 5 aims (closely aligned with those of the NHS 5 ways to Mental Health) which are to: engage with nature, enhance creativity, increase physical activity, connect individuals and communities and practice being present.
- Working at a deeper systemic level personally and collectively with participants and wider communities to make change.
- Well Image is informed by evidence-based research.
'Thank you so much for this course it has transformed my mental health and got me physically moving more too which is quite a feat with my M.E and Fibromyalgia. '
Charlie
STAFF WELLBEING
"Vanessa provided a workshop as part of our Mental Health Awareness Week event at the Met Office. Her approach enabled us to talk about many aspects of wellbeing including the benefits of being in nature, of paying attention to the present moment (through a view-finder). It was the perfectly understated way to explore a sensitive subject (mental health). "
Simon Crane - Wellbeing Lead
The Met Office
How we support staff wellbeing
Our approach is to encourage connection across your workforce.
Our photography sessions provide a fun, creative way for staff to reconnect with colleagues, whilst building useful skills for your organisation which includes confidence and communication. Now that many workplaces have moved towards a hybrid work pattern, there is often less opportunity to have that informal chat over coffee which in the past was essential for enhancing working relationships.
Many working people also have to juggle a multitude of challenges outside of work which can impact their wellbeing. These might include: caring responsibilities, sickness, long term health condition, anxiety or a life changing event.
We have developed methods which use photography as a catalyst for change, which support those experiencing anxiety, depression and grief. These work in any context or group but are particularly suited to staff wellbeing in and away from work.
Courses can also be tailor-made to suit the needs of your organisation.
We have worked with:
