Integrating Care into Practice: Facilitation and consultancy for artists and cultural organisations
Work with me
Welcome! I am Dyana Gravina, cultural organiser, interdisciplinary artist and facilitator. For over twenty years, I have been researching and reshaping how people gather, organise and support artists and audiences. You may have landed on this page because you are already aware that something in the current systems is missing, or because there is an increasing tension between the demands for more equity and inclusivity and the resources available to make that change happen tangibly. I am here to navigate those tensions with you, moving from the weight of what is missing towards what is actually possible within your reach.
I work with
Organisations and cultural teams
We care deeply about inclusion but our programmes, budgets and structures were not built with parents and carers in mind. We want to do things differently but we are not always sure where to start or what is actually within our reach.
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Collectives & community groups
We care deeply about the work, but resources never seem to be enough and the models for how to organise sustainably more collectively are hard to find. We are holding a lot, and we need better frameworks to keep going without burning out.
Artists and individuals
I feel like I have lost my place in the world I worked so hard to build. My relationship to my practice has changed in ways I did not expect and I do not have the space, the support or the community to work out what comes next. I feel stuck and increasingly invisible.
Approach
I work through accompaniment rather than prescription. My approach is grounded in embodied listening and a deep curiosity about what care already looks like within your specific context, your community, your constraints and your values. From that starting point we build together, identifying what is realistic and generative, and translating it into frameworks, agreements, tools and practices that can be lived, maintained and changed overtime.
What I offer
Facilitation for Organisations and Groups
- I support organisations to develop and strengthen the systems that shape how artists, freelancers, parents, carers, and communities engage with them. I help teams understand how care already operates across programmes and policies, and how it can become more intentional, accessible, and sustainable. I accompany organisations in embedding care into their public-facing work, from how people are welcomed to how opportunities and programmes are structured. I work from the inside out, aligning internal culture with external practice so care is visible, consistent, and lived by everyone who interacts with your organisation.
Mentoring for Artists
Many artists continue to describe “uninterrupted time” as a necessary condition for their practice. While this desire is understandable, it is not a neutral or universally accessible expectation. For artists with caring responsibilities, precarious livelihoods, or limited access to space and support, uninterrupted time is often unavailable or prohibitively expensive. This work invites a shift away from treating uninterrupted time as the benchmark of seriousness, and instead offers alternative points of reference to move beyond individual struggle towards more resourced ways of working.
What to expect
For organisers and institutions
– You will gain a clear direction and a set of concrete actions to make your programmes, spaces and communication more accessible and expansive
– Together, we will identify your strengths and the needs of your immediate and wider community and audiences, and respond to them with practical planning on how to engage and welcome them more fully
– You will leave with a set of tools and changes you can begin to implement, grounded in your real context and capacity, to open your work to artists and audiences from different walks of life and experience
For artists
– You will reconnect with what truly matters to your practice and begin to find a rhythm that aligns with your internal landscape and your external possibilities
– We will identify where your blocks and desires live, smoothing the anxieties that come from external expectations and the pressure to work in ways that no longer fit your life
– Together we will explore the tensions you are holding, recognising within them the unidentified needs and creative impulses that have not yet had space to be heard, named or transformed into new work.
– You will get access to an embodied sense of direction, a renewed confidence in navigating a sector that was not built with your caring responsibilities in mind, and a clearer, more grounded relationship to your creative identity as it is now
Pathways of Practice
These pathways are adaptable and relational, offering different entry points that help translate care from value into practice. These processes can range from a single mapping session to longer-term collaborations, shaped by the depth and capacity your project is ready for at this stage.
Finding Ground (1 day):
An opening conversation and care-mapping process to surface your existing strengths, understand your team and community’s needs and begin to identify the first concrete actions you can take. You will leave with a clearer picture of where you are and a sense of direction to move toward.
Building Together (2–3 days):
A deeper collaborative process for organisations ready to move beyond first steps. We look across departments, budgets, restrictions and possibilities to develop care frameworks, communication tools and practical structures that are honest about your real capacity and are tailored to your context.
Growing together (3–6 months):
A longer-term partnership for organisations and collectives ready to build something new from the ground up, whether a care-embedded cultural programme or a studio space like Mother House Studios. I guide you step by step through design, testing and implementation within your specific community and context.
Contact me
Whether you know exactly what you need or are just beginning to ask the questions, everything starts with a conversation.
More about me
Dyana Gravina (they/she) is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, birth doula, somatic movement practitioner and author of Embodied Histories: Medicalised Sexuality, Childbirth and Subversive Bodies (2025) and Integrated Care: From Individual to Collective Systems (2026). She holds an MA in Gender, Sexuality and Culture from Birkbeck University and is the founding director of Procreate Project and Mother House Studios, an artist studio with integrated care. She has curated and collaborated with institutions including the RCA, King’s College London, LADA and the Science Gallery London, and her work have been presented internationally at ICP New York, Art Basel, Venice International Performance Art Week and SLQS, among others.
Testimonial
" Dyana ongoing research and ability to be both art practitioner and organiser will only continue to benefit the wider ecosystem of art and culture in London, the UK and beyond." Bianca Chu, Co-Chair, Tate Young Patrons, Representative and Special Projects Advisor, Kim Lim Estate
“Dyana’s advocacy, innovation and art are moving this conversation forward in ways we cannot even measure at this time.” Lesly Deschler Canossi, Lecturer at the International Centre of Photography, New York
Integrated Care Toolkit
If you would like to begin exploring before we connect, The Integrated Care Toolkit is a free, printable roadmap you can start using today, wherever you are in your journey.
