Well-being Residency Network started as a two-year project (2018—2020) between five organizations from Latvia, Russia, Finland and Sweden.
During the first phase (2018-2019) of the project, four think tanks were organised, one in each country, in order to create individualized tool-sets for starting a well-being residency practice. In the second phase, the tool-sets were tested during monitored 1 month residency pilots. The tool- set and the results from the tryouts resulted in a publication - a methodology for a well-being residency practice.

• Sharing best practices of well-being residencies in international and cross-sectoral collaboration
• Developing the existing practices together in the well-being residency network
• Starting new artist residencies in the social and health care sectors in all the partner countries
• Creating a common methodology for a well-being residency practice

• Think tanks and seminars was organised in each partner country in order to develop individualised tool-sets for well-being residencies
• Residency try-outs was carried out in each partner country to test, adjust and perfect the toolsets and to assess the methodology
• A publication including the methodology was released at the end of the project

• Encouraging international collaboration and exchange of artists and art professionals working in social- and health care settings
• Building and sustaining an international well-being residency network
• Creating new residency actors by reducing the obstacles in starting and continuing well-being residency practices