Creative Ways to Support Individuals with ACEs | Saffron Hill

In this episode, Clare talks to Saffron Hill, founder and director of Children of a Revolution, about creative ways to support individuals with adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs. They talk about creativity in its broadest sense, as a therapeutic outlet for trauma, and how people can express their feelings through the creative process.



They also reflect on ways to incorporate opportunities for self-expression into services such as children’s homes.



Saffron is founder and director of Children of a Revolution, a non-profit, community-interest organisation that uses the arts to support the wellbeing of individuals living within marginalised groups.



She is a senior child and family practitioner, who also founded Hear it First Hand, a training and consultancy service that uses lived experiences to improve children and family services. Saffron works within a children’s residential home as a senior practitioner.



You can find Saffron on LinkedIn (https://uk.linkedin.com/in/saffron-hi...) , and find out more about Children of a Revolution on Instagram (  / childrenofarevolution_  ) and YouTube (   / @childrenofarevolution  ) , or on their website (https://www.childrenofarevolution.co.uk/) .



She also shares three tips during the episode:




• Dancing, singing, painting and writing are not skillsets; they are natural human behaviours.


• Viewing creativity as expression, rather than art, can help us understand its importance.


• We are all creative, and everything we do is an expression of ourselves.




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