42nd Street: Creative Mental Health Training with The Horsfall

Date & time: 18 September 2025, 10:00am - 4:00pm
Venue
The Horsfall, 87=91 Ancoats Street, Manchester, M4 5AG

*This session has been supported by Making Manchester Fairer to offer FREE spaces to grassroots organisations working in Manchester. Please see the attached flyer for more details.

Join 42nd Street and The Horsfall for a specialist, full-day training session exploring how to use creativity to support young people’s mental health and emotional wellbeing.

This is a paid* training for professionals who want to:

  • Develop their creative confidence in applied settings
  • Learn how to use art and creative practices to engage young people
  • Build trauma-informed, youth-focused methods for emotional support

    You’ll gain:
  • Practical strategies for embedding creative processes in your work
  • A deeper understanding of how creativity and mental health intersect
  • Greater confidence in using the arts for engagement and communication
  • Insight into using creativity as a communication tool
  • Trauma-informed principles and strategies embedded throughout to enhance emotional safety in your work
  • Confidence to facilitate safe and impactful creative spaces

Who is it for?
This paid* training is for professionals working with young people — youth workers, therapists, artists, facilitators, teachers, counsellors, and others supporting mental health and wellbeing through their roles.

Cost
Free spaces available for Manchester based grassroots organisations. Tickets for others £75
Provider
42nd Street / The Horsfall
Further details / booking

If you work for a Manchester based grassroots organisation, please email angeli.sweeney@42ndstreet.org.uk to book on to a session or for more information.

For others, you can register here.