Alongside the downloadable material on this site, I, Dyana, founder of this Toolkit, offer facilitation-based consultancies for individuals, organisations, and collectives looking to deepen their practice, establish care-embedded structures, or critically reflect on how care shows up in their work.
My facilitation is grounded in embodied listening, what others have called “a way of feeling care before talking about care”. This approach supports people across organisations, whether they are artists, staff, managers, to understand care as something lived and practical, not an abstract policy.
After twelve years of building platforms, I’m moving into a different phase. Instead of initiating new structures, I now work alongside others who are building their own systems with Integrated Care at the centre, organisations where staff and artists are navigating caring responsibilities, limited resources, and the desire to do things differently.
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This often involves clarifying expectations between organisations and the people they work with, creating communication tools that prevent misunderstandings, and developing practices that support parents and carers to participate fully. Together we look at how programming, timelines, budgets, and access routes can be adjusted so that care is not just an internal value but something people visiting, collaborating with, or relying on the organisation can practically experience.
Like the Toolkit itself, these pathways are adaptable and relational, offering different entry points that help translate care from value into practice.
These processes can range from a single mapping session to longer-term collaborations, shaped by the depth and capacity your project is ready for at this stage.
I am an interdisciplinary artist, curator, birth Doula and activist, mover, and community builder. She is the founding director of Procreate Project and the Mother House Studios, a pioneering arts organisation and artists studios dedicated to mothers* and primary care givers. They have been creating models of integrated care that have inspired systemic change across the cultural sectors.
Through these platforms, Dyana has worked with thousands of artists and families, offering visibility, continuity, and care-embedded opportunities at critical points in their practices. Their approach has not only opened doors for artists navigating caregiving and creativity, but also prompted institutions to rethink how they design programmes, allocate resources, and understand access. In 2021, Dyana also contributed to Artquest and East Street Arts’ Better Open Calls guidelines, now widely used to shape more equitable application processes in the UK.
Over the years, Dyana has developed for over a decade curatorial and activist practices that pushes the boundaries of what we showcase, where we showcase it and how people experience it. They have collaborated on projects with partners including RCA, King’s College London, LADA Live Art Development Agency, Mimosa House, the Women’s Art Library, the Science Gallery London, and Richard Saltoun Gallery, among others. Their performance actions, performative lectures, and writing have been presented in the UK and internationally, with collaborations including East Street Arts, Wellcome Collection, The Science Gallery London, The New York Times, The Yard Theatre, the International Center of Photography (NYC), Art Basel/Richard Saltoun Gallery, Minusoffspace (Vienna), Unit London, Menoparkas Gallery (Kaunas), and Gruentaler9 (Berlin).
Their interdisciplinary practice explores migration, class, feminist organising, care, sexualities, and genealogies, using writing, movement, performance, photography, sculpture, and sound-video interventions. By weaving these artistic and socially engaged approaches with facilitation and community building, Dyana creates frameworks that help artists, organisations and institutions reimagine how creativity and care can be integrated into sustainable cultural practices.