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Everyday therapeutic consumption

Summary

If individuals are to live balanced, healthy and happy lives, it is the everyday - sometimes ordinary - elements of our lives that require more attention.

Through developing greater awareness during ordinary and sometimes mundane moments or activities – such as making a cup of tea, giving a hug, an afternoon walk – these can be transformed and enriched with deeper meanings.

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Project overview

We focus on mundane and everyday consumption to learn more about how therapeutic moments or activities can be embedded within the everyday.

We are collecting stories from a diverse range of people, asking them to reflect on the following question: What do you do that makes you feel good in your day-to-day life?

Exploring how people make sense of everyday therapeutic moments and activities and – in a positive way – manipulate them into supporting their therapeutic endeavours can help redress the focus on therapeutic consumption as escapism, which assumes access to extraordinary experiences and the wellbeing market. We hope to develop an illustrated toolkit that individuals and community groups can use to improve health and well-being.

Participate in the project

If you would like to participate in this project about everyday therapeutic consumption, you can find out more on our dedicated website. 

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Meet the team

  • Emma Banister, The University of Manchester, UK
  • Kathy Hamilton, University of Strathclyde, UK
  • Susan Dunnett, University of Edinburgh, UK
  • Maria Piacentini, Lancaster University, UK
  • Amy Greiner Fehl, Georgia Gwinnett College, US
  • Stephanie Anderson, University of Glasgow, UK
  • Hélène Gorge, Université de Lille, France
  • Fiona Cheetham, UK
  • Nicole Kreidler, West Virginia University, US

This project is funded by an ACR-AMA Transformative Consumer Research (TCR) Research Grant.

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