\n Art VR has been championed as a potential \u201clifeline\u201d for emotional care and stress relief after taking centre stage at a recent event in Runcorn.\n<\/p>\n
\n The technology featured at Art in Mind, a two-day event in Runcorn organised by Amore Complex Care in partnership with Art VR to mark Mental Health Awareness Month.\n<\/p>\n
\n The immersive system offers users calming activities such as painting, building sandcastles, and kite flying in a fully virtual environment.\n<\/p>\n
\n Sarah Wilkinson, founder of Art VR, said: “Collaborating with Amore Complex Care for the Art in Mind event has been truly meaningful.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Together, we\u2019re using creativity to open conversations around mental health in our community.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Seeing a non-verbal client completely relaxed and immersed in Art VR, with Support Workers saying they\u2019d never witnessed anything like it before, genuinely moved me to tears.\n<\/p>\n
\n “These are the moments that remind me why we do this, because impact like this is priceless, and no amount of money can replicate it.”\n<\/p>\n
\n The event brought together clients, health and social care professionals, community members, and special guests including Mayor of Halton Martha Lloyd Jones and councillor Peter Lloyd Jones.\n<\/p>\n
\n Art VR has previously been piloted at Manchester Foundation Trust, where it was used with more than 50 critical staff.\n<\/p>\n
\n Results from the pilot included that 97 per cent of medical personnel said they would recommend Art VR as a therapeutic aid for patients, short sessions led to immediate reductions in heart rate and blood pressure, with most participants reporting they felt calmer afterwards.\n<\/p>\n
\n Staff described the technology as a \u201clifeline\u201d and an essential emotional reset during demanding shifts.\n<\/p>\n
\n Mayor Martha Lloyd Jones and Councillor Peter Lloyd Jones with Amore Complex Care’s clients artwork (Image: Amore Complex Care)\n<\/p>\n
\n On the second day of the event, guests also took part in a wellbeing session led by Kevin Morland Hypnotherapy and NLP, exploring the fight-or-flight response and ending with a guided hypnotherapy exercise.\n<\/p>\n
\n Mayor Lloyd Jones said: “I found it very interesting.\n<\/p>\n
\n “I’m sure children and adults would really enjoy it.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Attendees also joined an art session led by Laura Bevan and Georgina Ridehalgh of Fortuna Female Society, where clients painted trees with positive affirmations for a competition.\n<\/p>\n
\n Health and social care professionals who attended day two of the event voted for their favourite piece.\n<\/p>\n
\n Garry Pamment, Sarah Wilkinson, Kevin Morland, Mayor Martha Lloyd Jones, Councillor Peter Lloyd Jones and Ian McDougall (Image: Amore Complex Care)\n<\/p>\n
\n Ian McDougall, managing director of Amore Group, said: “Seeing our clients, teams and community come together to celebrate creativity and the role it plays in our collective wellbeing brings me enormous pride.\n<\/p>\n
\n “We are committed to prioritising mental health and promoting wellbeing for both our clients and the teams who support them.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Amore Complex Care supports individuals with complex needs across the North West and Yorkshire, helping them lead independent and fulfilling lives through clinical and behavioural care in their own homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Art VR has been championed as a potential \u201clifeline\u201d for emotional care and stress relief after taking centre…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[86,56,54,55,4297,4298,4299],"class_list":["post-601651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-virtual-reality","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-virtual-reality","tag-virtualreality","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}