About Healthy Conservatoires
A Healthy Conservatorie promotes a vision for the creation and development of healthy institutional practices.
These practices commit to improving health and wellbeing throughout its community by:
- working towards a holistic health and wellbeing provision that addresses a wide variety of factors affecting its performing arts community
- framing and promoting health and wellbeing in positive ways to enable those within a community to achieve their full potential and build sustainable careers
- creating an environment that openly embraces and embeds health and wellbeing in all aspects of its culture and community
No two healthy conservatoires are the same, but all:
Embed provision
A healthy conservatoire uses settings-based and whole-system approaches to embed health and wellbeing in their artistic and academic programmes, and in their operational mandates
Provide diverse resources
A healthy conservatoire acknowledges the holistic nature of health and wellbeing by actively engaging in all eight areas outlined in the performance enhancement framework Fit to Perform
Instil healthy habits
A healthy conservatoire aims to advance learning and teaching practices that encourage life-long healthy habits and skills to enhance performance
Empower
A healthy conservatoire creates institutional and individual knowledge about healthy choices, empowering all students and staff to develop autonomy and control over their own health and wellbeing
Encourage Collaboration
A healthy conservatoire promotes health and wellbeing as an endeavour to be undertaken collectively by students, staff, senior leadership and external agencies
Engage
A healthy conservatoire uses participatory approaches to engage the voices of students and staff in decision-making
Consult evidence
A healthy conservatoire engages directly with evidence-based research in developing and delivering provision
Are expert led
A healthy conservatoire works with experts in health and wellbeing, ensuring that staff and students have access to them and other appropriate sources of expertise
Promote good practice
A healthy conservatoire gains information and shares knowledge and experience within their communities and across the sector, locally, nationally and internationally
