Insider Art work with participatory visual art making: it’s psychological and emotional benefits. An independent training provider based in Exeter, UK we work with artists, health professionals, art psychotherapists and counsellors to develop the creative and emotional skills to achieve positive artistic and health outcomes. It is the nature of art and psychotherapy to imply journeys between inner and outer, rigour and spontaneity, past, present and future, relationship and identity. Projects invoking the arts as agents of change in health and social contexts are broadly, if not overtly, psychological. Our interest in publication began with the realisation that ‘professional’ literatures inevitably focus on discrete and defined areas, stressing categories and difference over interconnection and resonance. We are more interested in what connects.This often does not meet conventional publication criteria, yet frequently characterises some of the most interesting and eloquent work we see