Inkubator Kultury | Mental health and culture – first steps
About the event
During the workshop, participants will learn how cultural institutions can become spaces for healing – sensitive to the needs of people in diverse life situations, including those who have experienced crises. We will discuss challenges, needs, and problems related to mental health, examine examples of good practices and existing projects that support mental well-being and attentiveness to our audiences, create our own projects, and explore potential partnerships that could be established.
The workshop will be led by Marta Białek-Graczyk and Justyna Mańkowska.
About the faciliators
Marta Białek-Graczyk – sociologist; graduate of the University of Warsaw and the Reportage Laboratory at Collegium Civitas. Graduate of the prestigious European Diploma in Cultural Management. Scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. Expert and advisor on social innovation and culture for institutions including the National Centre for Culture, the Batory Foundation, the National Audiovisual Institute, and the City of Warsaw. She also advises corporations on corporate social responsibility and social innovation. Author of dozens of projects in the fields of cultural animation and social innovation. Lecturer in Social Arts at the University of Warsaw. Since 2011, she has been President of the Towarzystwo Inicjatyw Twórczych Ę, with which she has developed, among other things, pioneering projects for cultural animators on mental health, including “KIOSKI TROSKI”.
Justyna Mańkowska – expert in making culture accessible to people with different needs. She supports cultural professionals through training and networking. Vice President of Fundacja Katarynka. Co-author of the guide “Odbiorca kultury w kryzysie zdrowia psychicznego”. Scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture, she explored the relationship between culture and mental health. She conducts training and teaches how to design for mental health in culture. She is particularly interested in supporting teams and communicating sensitive content in cultural texts. She runs the blog “Czuj się dobrze w kulturze”.
Details
When: October 9, 10:00-18:00
Where: Workshops of Culture in Lublin, Grodzka 5a, auditorium, 2nd floor
For: culture sector professionals
Registration: closed
Inkubator Kultury 2026 Terms of Service
About Inkubator Kultury
Inkubator Kultury (Culture Incubator) is a comprehensive development program for culture sector professionals. It returns to Workshops of Culture after several years away, continuing to support people working in culture and initiate new activities that expand the city’s cultural offering.
The new edition has been designed as an intensive, multidimensional course created specifically for people working in cultural institutions, as well as NGOs and creative communities operating in the culture sector and creating programs, projects, and events for diverse audiences. The training program combines interpersonal, technological, project management, and strategic skills, offering 94 hours of sessions and workshops.
Participants will take part in a comprehensive training program divided into thematic blocks covering a broad range of issues related to creating and delivering cultural projects. Inkubator Kultury is also an opportunity to build cooperation between project participants and to meet the experts leading the workshops, who are connected with various areas of cultural activity in Poland.
Inkubator Kultury is co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage as part of the National Centre for Culture’s program: Kultura – Interwencje. Edycja 2026.