Textural Trueness: Authenticity, Preservation and Permeable Boundaries of Lived and Living Experiences as Sustainable Resources to Support Diverse Populations.
Bree Till is a carer and art therapist with training and experience in advocacy, governance, neurodiversity, and systemic engagement. She works with a compassionate lens grounded in frameworks of otherness, art therapy, psychotherapy, and lived experiences.
INTRODUCING BREE
Bree works systemically, culturally, and acutely to provide support to people. She agitates and harmonizes policies, practices, and programs within Commonwealth and State Wellbeing & Mental Health Services, Defence, and Veteran Ex-Service Organisation service design and delivery. She prioritizes humanity in a governance and systems-heavy environment, broadening the lens of why, what, and who “matters.” She supports the capacity of workforces to “lean in” to a client/consumer/participant/community-experiential focus, humanizing a “trauma-informed lens” catchphrase within fiscal and governance-centric systems. She focuses on the shared normality of distress and survival when immersed in unhealthy environments, the value of reciprocity, and the systemic and experiential manifestations of harm, support, compassion, and healing.
Bree established the inaugural “family” peer worker role with the Department of Veterans’ Affairs Open Arms Veterans and Families Counselling Service. She also played a crucial role in the national implementation of a lived experience peer worker program with over 60 veteran and veteran family members within a federal mental health service. Bree lives and works within the veteran family wellbeing system, providing art therapy to veterans, widows, and the broader veteran community.
As an instructor of Air Force Cadets, Bree supports ADF youth development service delivery with a wellbeing, inclusive and strength-orientated lens. She is a non-executive director with Australian War Widows NSW, an executive director with CIPHER Foundation (Creative, Integrative and Peer-Centric Healing, Educations and Research), provides art therapy to veterans, widows, and the veteran community within private practice (Creative Interventions PTY LTD), and works within a multidisciplinary team providing art therapy with participants at the inpatient youth and adolescent mental health unit at Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick.
Boundaries are a constant question and authentic resource of connection, familiarity, and validity. Bree’s intuition, experiences, research, and the consumer, carer, and interdisciplinary expertise inform her approach, as do the ongoing intersectional overlaps within the communities in which she lives, supports, advocates, and works.
In May 2024, Bree brings her lived and living experience of authenticity, preservation and permeable boundaries as sustainable resources to share with attendees at the 2024 Creative Mental Health Forum and Collective Care Retreat.
We are thrilled to welcome Bree as facilitator at the 2024 Creative Mental Health Forum and Self Care Retreat.
The documentary of this year's event provides a glimpse into what it means to participate in the Creative Mental Health Forum:
WE WELCOME
CREATIVE THERAPISTS,
ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
AND EDUCATORS WHO:
want to learn more about creative mental health,
be inspired by holistic and diverse workshops and presenters,
connect with like minded practitioners,
and “refill your well” with time in a beautiful nurturing environment and space for self care.
Leave a Reply