After premiering with Forum participants and screening internationally at the Creative Therapies Global Business Summit, this 2025 documentary is now offered publicly so its stories, creativity and conversations can ripple outward.
You are warmly invited to watch, share and use the film as a conversation starter in your own communities, organisations and networks.
Creative Mental Health Events
Enjoy the short films from the past five years of Creative Mental Health Forums on BoonWurrung Country in Gippsland, and get a glimpse of what’s been happening in 2026.
Introducing the Creative Mental Health Forum Documentary series
This series of short films documents an important chapter in the development of Creative Health as a vibrant, strong and evolving new field in the ecosystem of Australia’s public health care.
Filmed on BoonWurrung Country in Inverloch, Australia, the 2025 documentary captured our fifth Creative Mental Health Forum — a one-of-a-kind, values-led, crowd-funded four-day gathering where therapists, artists, educators and community members came together in solidarity to co-create practice, community and knowledge.
In a biomedical-dominated health system, where healing is so often reduced to billable units and isolated symptoms, the five years of Creative Mental Health Forums remembered and re-generated another way.
“Creative Mental Health” is grounded in art, movement, music, drama, play, story and connection. These are ancient forms of healing that endure because they speak to body, heart and spirit.
What emerged across our five years of gatherings is clear: creative practices support mental health, and their true strength lies in the relationships and communities that hold them. This is not work to be fragmented, marginalised or commodified — it is living, collective care.