Day 20 - Lesley's 13th annual Arts and Healthcare Conference

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Day 20 - Sunday I attended Lesley University’s Institute for Arts and Healthcare’s 13th annual conference.  It was inspiring and gratifying to see the work being done by my colleagues and graduates of our program – faculty, and graduates from our masters’ and doctoral programs were spotlighted.

 

The presentations included programs that represented more traditional definitions of creative arts therapy and others that could be defined more as social action or as arts in “health.”  While I left the day wondering again about the fluid boundaries around our work – I also left absolutely INSPIRED!!

 

  • “Voces arts and healing: Working with asylum seekers in Juarez Mexico” with Greta Bro, Mitchell Kossak, Kelvin Ramirez, & Stan Strickland

 

  • “Poetry/Creative Arts Therapy in a Carceral setting: Embedded Wings” with Barbara Bethea

 

 

  • "Finding Hope: The Experience of Being a Creative Arts Therapist at Bellevue Hospital During the Pandemic" with Yu-Ying Chen

 

  • “The Art of Resilience in Sickness and Death” with Michal Lev

 

 

 

  • “Embodied Digital Storytelling addressing ancestral trauma” with Giselle Ruzany

 

  • “Bravery in Public Space: The Use of Murals to Engage Healing Narratives in Medellin, Colombia” with Laura Smith

 

 

  • “'Jack be nimble, Jack be quick': Reflections on the value of the creative arts in adapting to change and holding adversity” with Nataly Wollett

 

  • “Creative arts therapies and anxiety: Social, community and clinical contexts” with Rebecca Zarate

 

 

 

 

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