
Make Shift
Pioneering Creative First Aid across Australia for the last decade
Co-Founders Caitlin Marshall and Lizzie Rose created MakeShift to explore how it's possible to 'jam in the joy' in the midst of focus on trauma recovery, mental health and collective resilience. Between them, they bring a few decades of experience in social work, mental health crisis support, community development, sustainability education, group facilitation, adult education, arts programming, plus a continuous personal practice of creativity in many forms.
We are passionate about wellbeing and self + community care methods being accessible to everyone. We've spent the last decade writing, designing creative tool kits, and co-designing courses with workplaces and communities.
We've been humbled by the effects Creative First Aid and Creative Prescriptions has on communities and especially those living through trauma and for people unable to work due to psychological injury.
Against a backdrop of pandemics, natural disasters, climate change and a growing understanding that we need to think differently about mental health in our community, Creative First Aid offers a much needed balm to anxiety, trauma, despair, and returns us to innate human qualities of of expression through things that make us feel good.
MakeShift was co-founded by Caitlin Marshall and Lizzie Rose in 2013, and is built from a community of teachers, artists, & advisers.
Lizzie Rose
Co-Founder / Program Coordinator / Creative Director
Caitlin Marshall
Co-Founder / Social Worker / Trainer + Educator
Kiara Mucci
Communications & Media Lead (on Mat Leave)
Pete Golsby-Walsh
Brand & Website
Deon Bird
Mental Health First Aid Instructor (Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander)
We are serious about the real benefits creative practice. That's why we've teamed up with GP's and Psychologists.
Dr. Mark Baxter
Clinical Psychologist, The Psychology Spot
Dr Mark Melek
General Practitioner, The Village Practice
Dr Mark Melek
General Practitioner, The Village Practice
Olivia O'Leary
Chairperson
Megan Corbett
Treasurer
Mel Cheng
Board Member
There is a miriade of ways to tap into your creative force. We do our best to provide you with experienced artists from diverse disciplines.
Marcelo Baez
Illustration & Drawing
Emma Saunders
Dance & Movement
Helena Fox
Writing
Elana Stone
Music & singing
Narelle Happ
Plants & Gardens
Kiara Mucci
Painting
Michelle Elliot
Textiles
Joshua Heath
Photography, Illustration
Mel Young
Textiles, Visual Art
Sally Ann Conwell
Visual arts, painting and illustration
Kirli Saunders
Poetry, writing, artmaking
Angie Cass
Collage Craft
Nooky
Rapper / Musician
Julie Paterson
Creative Adventure Facilitator
Peachy (Therese Petre)
Ceramics
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