Keeping well
Keeping well to support a new model for wellness.
We aim to support and enable citizens, communities, and organisations to keep well by putting compassion at the heart of all of our work by working in a trauma informed way. We also work with partners to support North Wales in becoming a trauma informed region. Leading with partners, our innovative approach to a social movement for change will focus on prevention and the driving factors impacting health in the region. The projects below show some of our recent work in this area.
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Trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences (TrACE)
In every element — from classrooms to communities, from student voice to research innovation — Wrexham University is building a culture of equity, compassion and impact. Our TrACE journey is not a single project, but a movement for lasting change.
Wrexham University is working to become a Trauma and Adverse Childhood Experience (TrACE)-informed institution, the first university in the UK to embed this approach. This project is delivered in partnership with ACE Hub Wales, funded by the Welsh Government and hosted by Public Health Wales.
55 students, including 6 Alumni have become registered TrACE champions.
We have extended the TrACE approach to major civic mission initiatives - providing trauma informed training and practice within the North Wales Children’s University (NWCU) and the £4.6m AHRC, Public Map research project, co-led by Wrexham University.
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Arts in Health and Well-being Project
We ran two Environmental Arts Therapy Experiential Workshops at the Xplore! Nature site on Wrexham University’s Northop campus, in collaboration with Manuela Niemetscheck from Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB).
These sessions were delivered to over 20 attendees from a wide range of organisations across the region, and explored the benefits of Environmental Arts Therapy within BCUHB and the positive impact it can have on health and well-being.
This work was shared at the National Eisteddfod 2025 during a creative activity and panel discussion on arts and health projects across North Wales. We will be continuing to grow and develop this work into 2026, facilitating new workshops and further learning on the power of environmental arts therapy and its impact on health and well-being.
“I will share the practices with staff. Using a piece of nature to reflect a feeling or emotion.” - Feedback from attendee
