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Connect

Creative wellbeing & Therapeutic arts groups

Some things shift more easily when we're not alone.

There's something that happens in a room — even a virtual one — when people make things together. A kind of permission. A sense that you're not the only one navigating this, carrying this, feeling this.

The Connect strand of Create Support offers online workshops and creative wellbeing groups that are light-touch and accessible — a first step rather than a deep dive, open to anyone regardless of experience or background.

You don't need to have been to therapy. You don't need to know what you're looking for. You just need to be curious.

Upcoming groups

Finding Words: A Therapeutic Arts Group for Neurodivergent Adults

A calm, creative space to explore identity, communication, and inner experience — alongside people who get it.

Finding Words is a gentle, small-group programme for neurodivergent adults.

Across three evening sessions at Salisbury Arts Centre, we will use materials like clay, collage, mark-making and make use of erasure poetry to explore the things that can be hard to put into words.

You don't need to be artistic or have any experience with art. You just need to be open to trying things in your own way and at your own pace.

This is not a therapy group — it's a therapeutic wellbeing space led by qualified professionals. A place for connection, creativity and community where there is no expectation to share, mask or explain yourself. Everything is optional.

You don't need to be an artist — just curious

This space may be a good fit if you:

  • Identify as neurodivergent in any way — diagnosed, self-identified, questioning, or exploring

  • Want a low-pressure creative environment alongside other neurodivergent adults

  • You are curious about using art and metaphor to understand your inner world

  • Are looking to belong in a group where your way of being is understood and respected

Session 2

Monday 19 Oct

7.15–8.45pm

Cost

£105 for all three sessions (reduced trial price for this autumn pilot)

Want to book or find out more? It starts with an informal chat with Cesca before you commit to anything.

Session 3

Monday 16 Nov

7.15–8.45pm

Group size

Min 6 people

Max 10 people

Read/Listen to the 'Finding Words' article on Cesca's Blog

Meet your facilitators

Finding Words is co-facilitated by me (Emily Edwards, Neurodiversity Coach, ACC ICF) and Francesca Myles, an Integrative Arts Counsellor (MBACP). Together we bring a neurodiversity-affirming partnership that blends creative therapeutic practice with strengths-based coaching — all grounded in Clean Language, so we work with your words and experience, not ours.

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Francesca Myles Create Support

With a background in creative wellbeing and disability support in theatre, Cesca brings a warm, trauma-informed approach to art-making, creating space where you can explore experience through images, words and embodied creativity without pressure to explain.

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Emily Edwards withINsight Coaching

With a background in psychology, Forest School and my own lived experience as an Autistic and ADHD adult, I will bring a gentle, strengths-based coaching approach, working with your natural words and metaphors to enable your own insight lead the way.

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Session 1

Monday 21 Sept

7.15–8.45pm

Location

Salisbury Arts Centre

White Room