Create Yourself Calm

01/05/2026

It was our busiest session yet with our West Horndon Community Creatives.
We love the welcoming back regulars and new faces and the fact we had to get more tables out of the cupboard!
Cuppas, chats and creativity flowed in our session and we're looking forward to our next workshops at the end of May.



Funded by and Brentwood Borough Council

30/04/2026

So far this week…
and at Fane Hall, Kelvedon Hatch. We’ve hosted two fantastic groups of participants for our Community Creatives sessions.

We offered a meditation using thoughts as the anchor for our attention and then brought to mind a positive or uplifting situation, real or imagined. We hope you’ll agree the postcards we then made for ourselves really capture the essence of those positive situations. Thanks to our two talented artists and

One more session to go at West Horndon village hall this evening. This project has been funded by UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund via

27/04/2026

Coming soon...
See our Community Creatives work at the Bay Tree Shopping Centre

The Brentwood Art Trail is just over a month away! 🖼️

Enjoy the Brentwood Art Trail from Brentwood Connected Business Improvement District (BID) from 30 May - 28 June 2026.
🖼️ 70+ locations acting as pop-up galleries across all three High Streets
🎨 Art on display from more than 100 local creatives
📍 Official Brentwood Art Trail Pop-Up Gallery at The Baytree Shopping Centre, open 10am-4pm daily
🖌️ Weekend art event days with artists in action and musical performances
👣 Guided tours with artists
🫶 Creative workshops and interactive activities for all ages

👋 Join us on Saturday 30 May to officially open the Brentwood Art Trail Pop-Up Gallery and attend our Guided Tours taking place throughout the day, then come along to our Event Days in June to see creatives live in action, join more tours, and get arty with us!:

✅ Saturday 6 June Event Day in Brentwood
✅ Saturday 13 June Event Day in Shenfield
✅ Saturday 20 June Event Day in Ingatestone

The Brentwood Art Trail is brought to you by Brentwood Connected, the unique Business Improvement District (BID) funded by town centre businesses to improve the experience of residents, visitors, employees and businesses in Brentwood, Shenfield and Ingatestone.

25/04/2026

At for our latest Community Creatives session, we tried a simple, calming exercise: creating a postcard to myself after imagining a favourite memory.
No specific destination required, no story to chase — just the act of pausing, noticing the words that wanted to appear and letting them land on the page.

There’s something grounding about it:
a blank card, a few quiet minutes and the gentle invitation to speak kindly to yourself.

A tiny practice but it shifts the whole day.

More upcoming sessions for the end of April in the Brentwood area.

Book your FREE space here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/o/90360042433?aff=ebdsshandroid

*Funded by Brentwood Borough Council

CreateYourselfCalm

21/04/2026

Last Thursday we sited a workshop for a fabulous group of parent carers in Brentwood.

We discussed simple ways to support our own wellbeing, made self-care collages to remind us of things that help us feel good and practised a simple STOP mindfulness practice.

As one of our participants said in their feedback “Loved just having a bit of time with no pressure and just picking things I liked for a change!”

This project has been funded by the local Health Inequalities Fund

19/04/2026

Our recent Mindful Watercolours for Carers session enabled a calming space. Everyone had chance slow down, breathe and reconnect with themselves through colour, painting and doodling with a reminder of how much this time is needed away from the responsibilities of being a carer.

If you missed it — or if you’d love to experience it again — more sessions are on the way.
A moment just for you.
A pause you deserve.

Join the mailing list or explore upcoming dates at www.createyourselfcalm.art
info@createyourselfcalm.art

15/04/2026

Come and join us this Saturday in The Reading Rooms, Billericay

13/04/2026

Today’s post is another story from one of our participants.

This person has been to many of our workshops and for them practising mindfulness in stillness with closed eyes just doesn’t work.

They have always been a doodler but since attending our workshops they have bought these little art journals and given themselves time to doodle. They’ve told us it helps settle them when they are feeling anxious. They have developed their own creative mindfulness practice that they can use daily to support their wellbeing.

We love hearing these stories from our participants and are thrilled to see the legacy of our work being practised out in the field!

Head to our Eventbrite page to join one of our workshops this month.

11/04/2026

This Saturday 18th April we will be hosting our Open Access Carers Workshop. Open to anyone with caring responsibilities. A few FREE tickets are still available through our Eventbrite.

This project has been funded by the NHS Health Inequalities Fund.

11/04/2026

A recent workshop with Havering Changing . A lovely space for the local community to enjoy.

Collier Row Skill Share Socials
@ Sapphire Jubilee Community Centre

We had a lovely self-care collage session with Creative Health Practitioner Sue Mills at our last workshop. It was a joyful and creative opportunity to pause, reflect, and focus on wellbeing together.

To keep up to date with our monthly workshops, join our Facebook group via the link in our bio.

04/04/2026

Calming self-care collage session today on behalf of with a great group from the local community aged 5 to retired.

More photos of their creativity to follow but great to receive the feedback from the session.
Thanks for having us.

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