Arts and health as a practice of liminality: Managing the spaces of transformation for social and emotional wellbeing with primary school children

The paper explores how arts-based projects may impact personal social and emotional wellbeing. ► These processes are studied empirically with targeted groups of children in two primary schools. ► Targeted arts-and-health interventions are usefully understood as a practice of liminality. ► Liminality needs careful management to be effective in realising its transformative potential. ► The conceptual distinction between liminal and liminoid spaces retains continued relevance