The Holding Time project is co-designed with researchers, health professionals and mothers, using creative activities to strengthen local communities, and promote pride in place. This eight year old iterative project encourages balanced debate through listening to mothers lived experience via interviews and their own creative writing.
The Holding Time Project is an experimental intervention in chronically low breastfeeding statistics. Through music, art and writing, we’re looking at the reality of breastfeeding and listening to mothers who know a thing or two about how things could be better.
Holding Time Projects
Overcoming the Cultural Barriers to Breastfeeding through a series of different approaches, through area specific projects, therapeutic creative writing workshops, blogs, vlogs and the Holding Time podcast.
Motherspeak – In their own words, mothers discuss breastfeeding challenges and triumphs.
Mother Portraits – Mothers from the Cheshire and Merseyside area talk about their experiences of breastfeeding in a project funded by Improving Me 2022
Podcast – Here we discuss breastfeeding in all it’s complexity – the ups and downs, the challenges, the triumphs. Whether you are expectant, a new mother or simply interested, I hope you’ll appreciate the incredible warrior women who are managing to breastfeed babies across the country.
Cheshire and Merseyside
In 2021-22 mothers in Cheshire and Merseyside were invited to share their experiences in video interviews and participate in workshops and a photo shoot. Across audio, video, animation and stills, the mothers discuss breastfeeding in all its complexity, calling into question the barriers that still mean many women who want to breastfeed, stop before they are ready.
Liverpool Holding Time Tour – The Echoes
An Echoes geolocated audio walk by The Holding Time Project – whether you are a visitor, or born and bred in Liverpool, we hope you will enjoy the intimate portrait of motherhood and breastfeeding, this free self-guided audio tour reveals.
Remember to bring your headphones – Across Liverpool there are 16 stopping-off points which are marked with a QR code. Each is a breastfeeding and family-friendly space, with facilities for parents and babies. Many have a schedule of free events for families.
Visit the Liverpool Holding Time Tour on the ECHOES website
Open to everyone
24/7 access
Online and in-person walking tour
Free
View the Holding Time website to find more information on each of the projects.
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