The project aim:

Creativity

The project gives anyone, regardless of age or ability, the framework and permission to get creative.  It challenges you to pick your creative outlet and relies on your willingness to work to achieve a creative boost. 

These past few years, as a society, we have faced and continue to face unprecedented global challenges. There are so many amazing people in the world, I am so very grateful; as we can lose sight of that sometimes. Though many creatives and healthcare practitioners have known this of old, commissioned research* shows the health and wellbeing gains creativity and engagement with the arts can elicit. Creativity is also a powerful tool for social activism, political resistance, or for the simple act of spreading joy and optimism.

I engage in creative practice for many reasons, but one is that it is good for my mental health; as a project participant and as project lead, the positive feedback I have heard from participants tells me I am not alone in finding this within this project.

Building a community through creative daily practice, a community who encourage and inspire one another, is one of the most rewarding benefits of this project. I look forward to doing this again this year.

*Creative Health Inquiry Report 2017 - Second Edition

The 2026 project will begin on June 1st!

Huge congratulations to all who took part last year, your endeavour was awe inspiring as always!

The year has flown in and at the point of writing we are only 4 weeks away from the start of the 100 Days Project for 2026.

So what is happening this year? I’ll tell you…

I plan on running the Daily Count again in 2026, to count you through 100 Days in the hope you will join me in this amazing annual challenge to access and exercise your creativity. I still have not decided how I am going to do this; last year was was lino cuts…ideas on what might be the medium this year, I am all ears?! Ideas welcome on social media!

Last year I found the balance of the project better, by not spending as long everyday on Social Media. The other end of that balance was an announcement of a Participant page, but due in part to the amount of choice I gave participants, and the lack of automation SquareSpace allows without being an IT whizz, I could not get the hundreds of participants info online.

I am putting my thinking cap on, and am going to work out a way to make this quicker and easier to manage this year (and of course if there is anyone who knows how to bulk upload to SquareSpace - please do get in touch!) So I will not be opening the sign-up sheet until closer to the start of the project. I will send out an email to anyone who has signed up to the mailing list, and will post on socials. Until then, have a think about how you might get creative for 100 days this summer!

2 SIMPLE RULES

The Project is wonderfully simple, and deceptively challenging.

It's that simple, and that difficult!

Choose one creative 'exercise', and then repeat it every day for 100 days. Record each daily effort and see what evolves in the work and in the self over time.

The project gives anyone (regardless of age or ability) a framework and the permission to be creative. It challenges you to dig deep into your creative reserves, to rely on your readiness to work in order to achieve creative breakthrough.

It can be an end to procrastination, and the development of resilience. It takes a lot of energy, and yet the rewards can resonate for a long time after the 100th Day is over.

You do not need to have any creative or artistic skill to take part in the project and you can participate from anywhere in the world.