By facilitating an environment of small group work with peers, participants were offered close interaction with psychologists to facilitate conversation within an environment aiming to nuture collaboration, a sense of belonging and sharing of experiences.

The provision of unusual opportunities through arts activities enabling service users to step beyond a superficial engagement with health professionals may introduce creatives space generating novel outcomes and discourse which can be usefully channelled back into the service and inform of theirs needs. By embracing such an experimental process, and ensuring participant diversity is a core stem respected and acknowledged throughout, interdisciplinary arts practice may provide a useful strategy to engage, inspire and challenge.