{"id":22,"date":"2014-07-02T11:37:59","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T11:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifestorywriting.co.uk\/?p=22"},"modified":"2015-01-06T13:20:56","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T13:20:56","slug":"have-you-ever-thought-about-writing-your-life-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lifestorywriting.co.uk\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"Arts for health and well-being"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Participants worked with artists in group session, residential homes, independent living schemes and one to one sessions in their own homes. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Research shows that being involved  in arts projects:- <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 \tEnhances feelings of well-being<br \/>\n\u2022 \tIncreases interest in other people<br \/>\n\u2022 \tBoosts confidence<br \/>\n\u2022 \tImproves social interaction<br \/>\n\u2022 \tTeaches new skills<br \/>\n\u2022 \tRe-ignites interest in old skills<br \/>\n\u2022 \tHelps reduce feelings of boredom, loneliness and depression  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifestorywriting.co.uk\/pdfs\/HeArtOfWellbeing.pdf\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.lifestorywriting.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/HeArtOfWellbeing.png\" alt=\"HeArtOfWellbeing\" width=\"256\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-255\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lifestorywriting.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/HeArtOfWellbeing.png 512w, http:\/\/www.lifestorywriting.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/HeArtOfWellbeing-361x512.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifestorywriting.co.uk\/pdfs\/HeArtOfWellbeing.pdf\">HeArtOfWellbeing.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Participants worked with artists in group session, residential homes, independent living schemes and one to one sessions in their own homes. Research shows that being involved in arts projects:- \u2022 Enhances feelings of well-being \u2022 Increases interest in other people \u2022 Boosts confidence \u2022 Improves social interaction \u2022 Teaches new skills \u2022 Re-ignites interest in &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lifestorywriting.co.uk\/?p=22\">Read more <span>&#x25BA;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifestorywriting.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifestorywriting.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifestorywriting.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifestorywriting.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifestorywriting.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifestorywriting.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifestorywriting.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifestorywriting.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifestorywriting.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifestorywriting.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}