k u .co. mind our y think re #IFeelBetterWhen Creatively expressing wellbeing When we express ourselves creatively, we feel better. There are lots of ways to express yourself but this project focuses on the use of poetry, art, photography, craft and music to express: ‘I Feel Better When I Am...’ In the following pages of ‘Selected Entries’, we feature the 21 pieces selected from the many submissions for the first ever personalised Yellow Book for a prison: ‘The HMP Leicester Yellow Book’. It has been an exciting collaboration to work specifically with a prison to produce 1,000 copies of The HMP Leicester Yellow Books, tailored to include only the entries submitted from prisoners and staff. The prison ran an in-house wellbeing festival event to inspire creativity for their book; where musicians performed and staff & prisoners expressed themselves artistically. This event inspired comments such as: ‘I feel better when I can be a normal human being and not just a number.’ We celebrate the publication of ‘The HMP Yellow Book’ with prison staff in April 2018 when we will also be sharing and exploring the Wellbeing section of the Yellow Book with them. It is our hope that these ideas and practices will become more widely used in prison. Softback copies of the book will be available in the prison library. 45