Photography for Well-Being

Photography for Well-Being

What if photography is more than a creative practice?

In recent years, research has shown that photography offers significant therapeutic benefits, enhancing overall well-being. This often-overlooked practice holds deeper potential than previously recognised. Advances in neuroscience and our understanding of mental processes reveal how creative activities like photography can positively influence our well-being. By engaging in creative expression, we can harness these benefits to improve our lives.*

Well-Being Photography (WBP) is a non-clinical art practice that uses photography as a tool for self-care, self-reflection, and personal growth. I developed the WBP method by combining creative thinking techniques with various photography practices to help individuals lead healthier, more intentional, and creatively fulfilling lives.** Through practical exercises and photo activities, WBP encourages people to stay fit, calm their minds, and inspire their hearts.

Supported by research into brain function and insights from neuroscience, WBP provides a scientifically grounded approach to understanding how photography can enhance well-being. Whether it's a 10-minute photo walk in nature or a simple creative photo game at home, WBP offers a fun, accessible, and meaningful way to enrich your life through the lens of a camera.

*For more information, please visit the Blog section, where you can find detailed articles on the scientific benefits of WBP, along with practical examples and techniques for those interested in exploring this method.

**Please note that Well-Being Photography (WBP) is not a clinical therapeutic approach, and I am not a licensed therapist. Instead, it leverages artistic and creative practices to support well-being and personal growth. If you need professional clinical help, I can recommend qualified therapists and guide you through the available support options.

How well-being photography can enrich your life?

How well-being photography can enrich your life?

  • Well-Being Photography is designed to alleviate the neural pathways responsible for stress and anxiety. You'll gain effective coping strategies, promoting mental clarity and peace.

  • Well-Being photography withholds the tools necessary for a direct and accesible mindful practice.

  • It's your lens that captures the beauty or the ugly in life. Through photography, individuals often become more attuned to the positive aspects of their lives, fostering feelings of gratitude for the beauty, moments, and people they capture in their images.

  • Well-Being photography practices encourages self-reflection, helping you understand your inner world better.

  • Well-Being Photography can be a means of processing and releasing negative emotions. By channeling emotions into creative expression, you may find relief from emotional burdens.

  • Well-Being Photography acts as a gateway, helping individuals unaccustomed to accessing their creativity by providing a structured path to explore and nurture their artistic imagination.

Who is this for?

I feel stuck at home.

I find it hard to relax.

I don’t know how to express what I really feel.

Work is stressing me.

My mind won’t stop chattering.

I feel disconnected from myself.

I want to be more creative.

I want to have fun.

I am always on my phone.

I often struggle with stress and anxiety.

I want to feel freedom again.

Does any of these sounds like you? Then, well-being photography might be a good way to start making a positive change in your life.

This creative practice works best for people passionate about photography, who want to make a positive change in their lives. However, previous experience with photography is not mandatory.

How can you start using WBP?

I offer a long-term photography mentorship program. This is my first recommendation, as it is tailored on any photography level and specific benefits you want from it. Go to The Mentorship Page.

You can also check the Events page for more info on upcoming events. I organise couple of events per year. Contact me personally for the exact date of the next Well-Being Photography event.

By subscribing to Creative Harmony newsletter, you will receive one email a month with a photo-game you can try for yourself. As a subscriber, you benefit for a photography review if you are interested to get feedback and gain insights on your photography practice.

Also, you can follow @creativeharmony.art on Instagram to learn more about Well-Being Photography and the latest news and discounts.

What past participants in well-being photography events said:

  • The way Luiza made a safe and warm space for the others - that amazed me a lot and it helped me open up more in the workshop.

  • If you feel stuck in your own head and do not know with which of 2847 tasks or ideas to start your day with, this can help. With as simple as going outside (or even not going) and taking one photograph a day, it could have an impact on how you're feeling. Also, you could get some valuable thoughts out of it. Recommend :-)

    -Lote

  • Luiza’s guidance is very careful, attentive and complete, making us get in touch with our emotions and connect to photography in a new way.

    -Daria, Fine Artist, Romania

  • I've always loved photography but never thought of connecting it to improve my well-being until I met Luiza Preda and started watching her videos on Instagram talking about it. Seeing her relationship with the art of photography and her motivation to help people find a purpose and a tool for well-being through photography inspired me. Made me want it. This is why I joined her photography for well-being course. I must say that I loved the course, the methodology, the sense of community, and the inspiration the course brought me. Also, having Luiza as my mentor to create my photography for well-being project was very inspiring. I finished the course with that "I want more" feeling and I am super excited to start my journey into the path of well-being photography. I recommend this course!

    -Maila

  • Luiza is a lovely soul, who has plenty of curiosity and empathy for her clients. By using simple genuity and friendliness, in the course Luiza created a safe and creative space for everyone to explore their own feelings and well-being needs.

    -Daniel

  • I truly felt that Luiza was able to form a safe space for all the participants. It was a beautiful experience where we all had the opportunity to reflect on our emotions and talk about the relationship with photography in order to understand ourselves better.

  • I've already recommended this servivce to other photographers! As an experienced professional photographer, I've been very interested in learning new ways to befriend with this skill, as working life feels many times heavy and undervalued. Luiza’s approach is very positive, and I admire her vision and studies, bringing a new and healthy perspective to photography.

    -Erica

  • A fun and interactive online course guided by Luiza! I felt safe to talk about my well-being issues and also received valuable advices on how to use photography to improve them. A journey of self-discovery.

    -Abbie

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