Tag: Social Prescribing

Into 2026

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date December 22, 2025

From creative practice to Creative Authority: how the Creative Women’s Association moved from grassroots creativity to national workforce reform in just three months, reshaping how Australia recognises creative labour, women’s work, and economic value.

Tags Applied Creative Intelligence, Arts & Provenance, Certification, creative authority, Creative Health, Creative Trades, Creative Women’s Association, creative workforce, provenance, Social Prescribing, Soft Infrastructure, Soft Systems Design, Women’s Economic Participation, Women’s Health, Workforce Reform

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The High-Performance Load of Women

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date December 8, 2025

Women operate at elite-performance load every day while systems continue treating their strain as personal pathology. This evidence-based analysis exposes how society gives men high-performance infrastructure and gives women diagnostic questionnaires—and why systemic accountability can no longer be avoided.

Tags Australia, Certification, Creative Health, Creative Industries, Creative Women’s Association, creative workforce, Cultural Labour, CWA Australia, economic gap, economic renewal, gendered economics, national policy., national standards, policy, provenance, Social Prescribing, Structural Inequality

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If Life Were Golf, Women Would Be Starting Four Suburbs Back

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date December 2, 2025

A humorous, relatable exploration of the Domestic Load Handicap (DLH) — a new model that uses real-world data to measure the domestic and mental load carried by women. This piece reframes women’s overwhelm as a predictable structural outcome, not a personal weakness, highlighting how DLH can transform women’s health, economic security, and daily life.

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This Is Not a Workforce Gap — It’s an Abyss

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date December 1, 2025

A national data review shows that 76% of unpaid labour performed by women creates an unmeasured economic abyss rather than a workforce gap. The CWA argues that Australia’s largest structural deficit is invisible creative and care labour, and proposes a certified creative workforce to transform and formalise this missing sector

Art, Expression & Therapeutic Practices Social Prescribing, Creative Health & Community Care

Creative Prescriptions Are Reshaping Women’s Health

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date July 11, 2025

Social prescribing is revolutionising healthcare by putting creativity at the heart of wellbeing. This article explores how creative practices are helping women thrive and why the future of health needs art more than ever.

Tags Art Pharmacy, arts in health, BMC Primary Care, Community Care, Creative Health, Creative Practice, CWA, Frontiers Public Health, Holistic Care, mental health, NASP, Non-Clinical Health Interventions, Social Prescribing, wellbeing, Women's Health., Women's Wellbeing

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Designing Wellness

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date July 10, 2025

Discover how interior architecture—through elements like color and spatial scale—can influence emotional states, brainwave patterns, and vagus nerve activity, revealing a groundbreaking link between built environments and the gut-brain connection.

Tags Architecture and Wellness, brainwave activity, Built Environment, Creative Health, Creative Women’s Association, emotional regulation, Gut Health, HRV, Interior Architecture, Social Prescribing, vagus nerve, Wellness Design, Women’s Health