For the past three years we have been facilitating biographical filmmaking workshops with the charity Mind to explore the therapeutic impact of film on mental health and wellbeing. Using our regenerative model we form a creative communities to give people living with complex mental health the opportunity to tell their stories through film.

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Project Impact in Numbers

  • 73% felt more able to seek and engage with employment opportunities

  • 82% felt more hopeful about the future

  • 91% felt more compassion toward their past

  • 91% felt able to view negative experiences as opportunities for growth

  • 91% felt more engaged in meaningful activities

  • 100% increased their filmmaking knowledge

  • 100% accessed creative opportunities otherwise unavailable

  • 100% reported therapeutic benefits from the course

Who do you work with?

Our project has support people with PTSD, depression, anxiety, selective mutism, schizophrenia, autism, ADHD and personality disorder. Some of who have lived through homelessness, domestic violence, grief, abuse, addiction and trauma. If you think we can work with your organisation please contact us we would love to talk.

Participant Voices

“This project has done more for me in 14 weeks than in 11 years of therapy”

“I learnt more during this project than 3 years at university.”

“I feel like I have processed so much that traditional therapy wasn’t able to uncover. By seeing and hearing myself I feel much more comfortable in my own skin.”

“Working with Wondering CIC has reinforced my belief that it is possible to accomplish difficult tasks. Their support and encouragement have shown me that what initially seems daunting can indeed be achieved.”


We have created fundamental therapeutic shifts and encouraged people to return to employment while creating powerful lived experience films which have not only empowered people but also contributed to a wider understanding in the general public around mental health.

Wondering CIC is looking to collaborate with charities, and organisations to further our practise and research into alternative ways to build healthier communities.

For more information about our projects, please contact us.

How do you do it?

We work with existing organisations and communities using our regenerative model to co-create projects which empower lived experience voices to tell their stories.

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We teach people biographical film in a group setting with therapeutic support.

People make a film about their mental health journey.

We show the work in public at community film screenings.

Participants access to flexible employment through our peer support scheme and film commissions.

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