Creative Toolkit
Along with colleagues from University of Exeter's Academy of Nursing and Hospiscare (a local palliative care organisation), I created the Creative Toolkit initiative. We co-develop creative activities with frontline staff to support them in processing and reflecting on difficult experiences. We then work with them to embed these activities in their daily work routines in order to support mental health and wellbeing.
These activities can be helpful for a wide range of people, so we also share our work with the wider public -- for example through the recent national Festival of Social Sciences. The picture at left shows an online gallery we have created to feature some of the incredible pieces created by people who have engaged with our project.
Visual Revelations
I deliver workshops on using drawing to facilitate reflection; I tend to focus in particular on drawing comics. These have stemmed from my own regular practice of drawing a webcomic every day for the past several years (posted to Instagram, X, and Facebook under the hashtag #doodlewax). I have also written about this work (see CV).
LEGO Serious Play
I am a trained LEGO Serious Play facilitator and use the LSP technique specifically, and playful LEGO activities in general, to foster discussion, brainstorming, reflection, and learning. I have developed sessions for a range of contexts, including businesses, schools, heritage sites, and community events. I have also developed a training session for people interested in using LEGO in their own context.
Writing
My book Flamingo was released by Reaktion Books in June 2015; an Italian-language version was published in 2017. It is part of the award-winning Animal Series. You can purchase a copy at Amazon (UK or US), Reaktion Books, or University of Chicago Press; if you would like a signed copy, you can order one by emailing me at caitlin.r.kight@gmail.com
I also regularly write for the wider public -- including in the context of Current Conservation and CC Kids, two magazines of which I am an editor.