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Cordialis (a Latin adjective meaning 'of, or from, the heart') is a registered Australian charity promoting a more creative and caring society by helping everyone use their innate creativity to help others. We develop resources, initiatives and research that support teachers, health workers, parents, carers and volunteers to engage with those they care for in active, everyday, outwardly directed creativity for wellbeing across all stages of life.

Our approach draws upon decades of practice, research and development in creativity and wellbeing.

Inside each of us is the deep desire to open our hearts and sing out with love. 

John Diamond, M.D., The Life Energy in Music, Vol. 1 (1981), 105

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Singing and other forms of creativity are simple, fun, cost-effective, and proven to enhance and support social aspects of wellbeing.
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Our 
Mission

We are an Australian charity promoting everyday creative care. We provide resources that support teachers, health workers, parents, carers and volunteers to help those they care for engage in active, everyday, outwardly directed creativity for wellbeing across all stages of life. 

 

We like to help the helpers. Engaging in creativity is great, but engaging in creativity with the intention of helping someone else is even better. Everyone can help to encourage other people’s creativity, no matter their age, skill level, or perceived (dis)ability. 

 

Those who are perceived as being in need, such as children, older people, or people living with disabilities, have great capacity to help others. We help the carers and teachers of these groups to find ways to facilitate those they support to help their society through creativity.

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Learn about our logo, a painting by the late Dr John Diamond (1934-2021), the arts and health pioneer, and how his philosophy lives on through the Cordialis approach. 
Logo painting by John Diamond MD 2013
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Cordialis acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the

un-ceded lands upon which we meet, create, and care for our communities. We acknowledge their Elders, and the extraordinary and unbroken history of creativity and care of First Nations peoples, spanning tens of thousands of years and continuing and evolving today.

THE CORDIALIS FOUNDATION LTD  is a registered ACNC charity. ABN: 55 693 238 103.

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