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.