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Walking on Eggshells: Ending Male Violence Against Women – Key Learnings

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What happens when you bring together practitioners from safeguarding, education, health, social care and the voluntary sector, and immerse them in stories shaped by lived experience? As our ‘Walking on Eggshells: Ending Male Violence Against Women’ conference showed, you get a day filled with insight, emotional honesty and a renewed sense of purpose. “This was […]

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The Role of Music in Lived Experience Training: Learning Beyond Words

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he Role of Music in Lived Experience Training: At our recent conference, ‘Walking on Eggshells: Ending Male Violence Against Women’, the learning didn’t rely on slides or written materials. Instead, we brought our participatory arts approach to life with immersive audio stories, film, music, theatre and hands-on workshops. Among all of these, music emerged as

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Utilising Lived Experience in Participatory Arts: Why Creative Approaches Work

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‘Lived experience’ is a term used frequently across the safeguarding and domestic abuse sectors, but meaningful and ethical involvement of those with lived experience can be tricky to get right. At our recent conference, ‘Walking on Eggshells: Ending Male Violence Against Women’, we demonstrated how creative mediums allow lived experience to be central without placing

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The Power of Character Creation: Why It Works & Insights from Our Conference Day

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When delegates arrived at our recent event, ‘Walking on Eggshells: Ending Male Violence Against Women’, we asked them to begin with something a little unexpected for a safeguarding conference: co-create a fictional practitioner. Her name was Jessica, chosen collectively by the room, and over the course of the day she became the emotional thread that

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Creative approaches to involving and engaging children and young people in research

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A blog by Paul Hine, CEO of participatory arts organisation Made By Mortals. At Made By Mortals, we are on a mission to improve how children and young people are engaged in health, social care, and social justice research. We are fed up with children’s, and young people’s voices and ideas being left behind or

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Co-creation that works

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Our Relationship Manager Tess meets Aneela and Sue from the Applied Research Collaboration in Greater Manchester to explore how creativity, coproduction, and trust can transform research partnerships. I’m sitting in a café just around the corner from Manchester University, catching up over lunch with Sue and Aneela from ARC-GM — that’s the Applied Research Collaboration

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STUCK at GM Live Well: A Day of Energy, Ideas, and Big Ambitions

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Last week, we had the privilege of facilitating two STUCK workshops at GM Live Well: Everyday Support, a landmark event for Greater Manchester’s Voluntary, Community, Social, Faith, and Enterprise (VCSFE) sector. Held on Social Prescribing Day (March 19, 2025), the event was a buzzing, high-energy gathering of people passionate about social change and transforming the

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