Creativity is for everyone.

It’s about engaging with the process. And it's about allowing yourself to play, explore and make beautiful, messy, imperfect work.

This blog is for those seeking more sustainable, creative, and compassionate ways to live and work, therapists and helping professionals, those in leadership, caring, or teaching roles, in life and at work.

Here I explore creativity as something that has always sustained communities through difficulty. I examine how creative practice can offer restoration, reflection, and meaning-making, and I challenge the narratives that keep helping professionals trapped in cycles of depletion.

This is about reconnecting with practices that sustain us, even when the systems around us don't.

Creativity & Wellbeing, For Helping Professionals, Creative Practice, Burnout Prevention, Research & Evidence, Decolonising practice, Social and emotional wellbeing (SEWB), Conferences and events Emily Wilkinson Creativity & Wellbeing, For Helping Professionals, Creative Practice, Burnout Prevention, Research & Evidence, Decolonising practice, Social and emotional wellbeing (SEWB), Conferences and events Emily Wilkinson

Presenting at the 2026 AAPi National Conference

Creativity is one of the things colonisation set out to take. At the 2026 AAPi National Conference on Yugambeh Country, I asked a room of psychologists to write a poem before we talked about the evidence. Here I share why I started there, and the question I now ask before using any arts-based practice: where did this come from, and whose is it?

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“I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.”

― Sharon Olds