Creative Pathways offers a range of opportunities for nature connection and immersive creativity to support mental and physical health and wellbeing.
See What We Do page for more details.
Creative Pathways founders, Ali Chapman and Caspar Walsh
Dartmoor National Park Visitor Centre are hosting a retrospective of our work as our former charity, Rite to Freedom until March 30th 2025
'We Seek the Teeth' is part of our new Creative Pathways to Healing and Meaning programme and in September 2019 this short film won 2nd place at the Recovery Street film festival. A powerful exploration into the healing that can be found through connection with the landscape and the power of landscape and words.
Feedback from the 2024 Bloom Festival Supporting new creatives, celebrating creativity:
"The selection of Creative Pathways films were superb, the crafting and photography and dovetailing and sequence of images was beautifully done"
"I took part in one event, called Recovery Cabaret, run and hosted by Creative Pathways, I had a 5 minute slot in which I read a poem. I had some good, understanding, appreciative and sympathetic feedback about my poem and performance/delivery from Caspar Walsh, creator and manager of Creative Pathways. It was the best, most encouraging feedback I've ever had, in over 30 years' experience as poet & spoken word artist."
A beautiful film record of our week's Addiction Recovery Cornwall exhibition at the Poly, Falmouth in September 2023.
You can also have a read of Caspar’s blog post about the event.
Evaluations and Evidence for the Impact of our Work
100% of participants interviewed state that being part of Creative Pathways has supported them to make more positive choices and choose healthier directions in their lives.
This artwork below of a Dartmoor landscape was created by Gill Thompson for our ongoing impact evaluation. It is an interactive, multimedia celebration of the work of the charity with click through elements highlighting aspects of our delivery – supporting mental and physical health and wellbeing through nature connection, meditation and creative practice.
Click on the interactive icons to reveal:
The boulders at the base of the image contain key elements of our 2023 external impact evaluation.
The landscape above the boulders includes film, sound, image and illustration created through our programmes.
Concept and design Caspar Walsh.
The Archetypes
Illustrations from our Creative Pathways to Healing and Meaning Programme.
Click an archetype to see their overview and poem. Click here to see more resources on these archetypes.
Original artwork by Philip Harris. Concept and design by Caspar Walsh.
News
Have a read of our latest news of what we’ve been up to, usually with some lovely photos too!
“Thank you for allowing me to re-member who I am. I go from broken to open and to be a part of a kinder, gentler world that I believe we all deserve and is coming into fruition one person at a time! So much joy, so much love, namaste. ”
Celebrating the many amazing participants and staff from our award winning work with our former Charity, Rite to Freedom.
“Rite to Freedom offered a reliable and highly effective service; that upholds its vision and values, and delivers a vibrant, pioneering model for change. Its leadership offers the strength of team working, reflectivity, and pioneering approaches. It is a vibrant, radical, social-initiatory intervention which effectively utilises the ‘shoulders-of-giants’; and from that robust position, enables a growing community towards positive role modelling, active leadership, and resilient citizens.”
Stories are what connect us, they always have and they always will.
A short film from award winning filmmaker Caspar Walsh and the Creative Pathways crew...
To Know the Difference explores the inspiring recovery journey of Laura Hamlyn. Following Laura's own words as she moves through the landscape of Dartmoor, this compelling, intimate, short film explores the three pillars of Rite to Freedom’s recovery ethos - nature connection, creative expression and the mindful life.