Projects

We have experience with developing and implementing projects in different categories and units. We work with Art and health / Well-being & health in the workplace / Creativity & innovation / Stress & art therapy / Storytelling & personal leadership 

ART AND HEALTH

WELL-BEING & HEALTH IN THE WORKPLACE

CREATIVITY & INNOVATION

STRESS & ART THERAPY

STORYTELLING & PERSONAL LEADERSHIP

Read more here:

ART AND HEALTH

It is NSAH's goal to strengthen health, wellbeing and quality of life - to support the UN's goals locally and globally. Good health is an important resource in everyday life. Our mission is to identify and activate the strengths and resources we already have as human beings and which are so important to a healthy and good life. We work with a resource-based health perspective, called Salutogenesis, which focuses on the interplay between body, soul and mind, and between the individual and society. It is our firm conviction that art and creative expression can be used as a tool where verbal communication is not enough. Likewise, music, drama, storytelling, poetry and painting can activate the potentials and resources that we already have as human beings.

Project examples

ArtMentum
In 2022, we received support from the Victim Fund (Civil Agency/Ministry of Justice) to create an art therapy online platform for therapists specialized in victims of violence. This is done in collaboration with Art Nordic.

Denmark Tells
Share your stories. This is the invitation to participate in "Denmark Tells", where people meet virtually and tell stories about events that have meant something in their lives.
Participants in the project "Denmark Tells":
Danish Public Information Consultation
School Association
University Association
Grænseforeningen
Grundtvig Forum
Information Association Forums
Nordic School of Arts and Health
Read more on the Danish Public Information Council's website.
https://dfs.dk/nyheder/arkiv/vil-du-vaere-med-i-danmark-fortaeller/

Creativity and mental health in Danish primary schools - a research project

April 2020, we begin a one-year research project on art and mental health among students in Danish primary schools. One goal is to develop a learning method to integrate the teacher's own interests in the arts into teaching At the core is the teacher's importance for enhancing students' creativity by including their own interests for art in teaching - eks literature, music, theater and storytelling. In the course, teachers will work on the topic in selected workshops with high profile Danish writers, artists, musicians and actors. The project includes a conference to integrate storytelling into primary school.

A Danish approach to artistic formation: 7 - day retreat in Copenhagen

We are currently working on a weekly program where professionals in the art and teaching world in USA come to Copenhagen to gain insight into how we in Denmark teach through various artistic expressions. As professionals, we often give a lot of ourselves, which is fun and interesting, but also demanding, both professionally and personally. During this 7 - day retreat, participants are introduced to a Danish approach to teaching artistic subjects. This includes meetings with prominent professionals from the Danish art scene, teachers, researchers  as well as opportunities to work with the role of art creation and how to integrate one's own interests for art in teaching.

WELL-BEING & HEALTH IN THE WORKPLACE

Physical and mental health are among the biggest challenges in society today. It has an impact on the individual's quality of life, the social economy and our ability to solve our core tasks. Rather than building on existing beliefs and assumptions about well-being and work environment, we help top executives to gain a clear idea of what is going on in the workplace, its culture and its challenges. Our enquiries are guided by opportunity thinking, driven by hope and dominated by a bottom-up perspective.

Project  examples

Create a trust based culture through artistic processes

A two-year project for The Culture and Leisure Administration - City of Copenhagen. 

CREATIVITY & INNOVATION

Do you want to put passionate and creative people at the forefront of your institution? Then you have come to the right place. NSAH has pioneered a problem-solving process that merges the playful and inventive with innovation. We rely on methods that promote an organization's creativity. Modern organizations are in need of passionate and creative people. New research shows that creativity and innovation are inter-linked. NSAH targets organizations and institutions that want to strengthen the playful and innovative through team building, art therapy and educational conversations.

Project examples

Make use of the passions and interest of your employees to strengthen creativity and innovation in educational institutions
A one-year project for Favrskov Municipality.

STRESS & ART THERAPY  

Stress is one of the biggest public diseases in Denmark right now. The World Health Organization (WHO) foresees that stress will be one of the major causes of disease in the year 2020. The negative stress is increasingly experienced throughout society, in schools and institutions for children and young people, in the workplace, in traffic and even at home. The experts all agree that a major cause must be found in an ever-increasing process of social acceleration. We can no longer expect the future conditions to be an extrapolation of the past. This is where Expressive Arts Therapy comes in. It draws inspiration from indigenous cultures' approach to crises, transformation and human welfare. In tribal communities, the rite of passage is an essential element. Similarly, the focus of art therapy is to provide tools for dealing with difficult transitions. Art therapy works with stress and challenging transitions in ways that that views these states as being part of life. NSAH targets workplaces and organizations that want to incorporate stress management, self-care and mindfulness as integral part of working life.

Project examples

Stress management in the health sector
Departmental leaders, middle managers and healthcare professionals.

Life crises, health and self-esteem
Treatment - and therapy centers.

STORYTELLING & PERSONAL LEADERSHIP

Storytelling (employing story, dialogue, and staging), are strategies and ways of thinking that extend into domains that are of great importance to personal leadership. With this project theme, the joy of employing narratives is enticed. Crucial moments and narratives in the lives of people, leaders, and organizations are powerful mythologies that enhance the power of personal leadership and empower individuals to face sudden and abrupt changes.

Project examples

Storytelling and educational conversation - the personal leadership
Professionals who want a special commitment and who are interested in educational conversation and storytelling.

Leadership Training

Educational institutions that want to develop leadership skills in an educational context. Who wants insight into and develop their own leadership role as well as methods for conflict resolutions.