What is Arts for Resilience?
The arts are powerful tools to reduce burnout for healthcare workers.This webpage provides the resources and research to engage in the arts with health care workers and in the field of arts in health.
Take a Break From Burnout
Take a break! Participating in creative activities is a proven way to help gain relief from burnout. Visit the BREAK ROOM for free guided videos designed specifically for healthcare workers.
1. The BREAK ROOM
- Take a creative break! Choose one you think you might enjoy and try it out, or share it with a peer. Engage your brain with a different, new or favorite activity. Think of it as adult recess!
- We will ask you a couple of quick questions to gauge how you are feeling before and after the videos/prompts (Don’t worry – your information is private. We will not share it with anyone). This helps us make the work possible
2. Research
We’ve compiled up-to-date research on burnout from leading experts in the field to help you understand and navigate the condition and impact of burnout on health care workers and our communities. Use the research to make the case for art and wellness initiatives, seek funding, and educate your peers.
3. Resources
Browse professional resources, case studies, and tools for addressing burnout and increasing resilience through the arts and other wellness initiatives. Includes podcasts, literature, media, and more.
Creativity Prompt
Each week, we’ll share a prompt with you designed to spark a deeper discussion or thought process about a particular topic. We encourage you to use these prompts for journaling, group discussions, or as inspiration for other creative activities. You can respond by writing, art-making, collage, or poetry – no artistic experience is necessary when you are expressing yourself
Stanford Health Care is seeking an Arts for Health Facilitator, Patient Experience
The Art for Health Program supports in-patient units with bedside art to enhance patient care, allowing our patients to focus on their health, to relieve their stress, and to lift their spirits. Facilitators provide caring guidance, to Stanford Health Care patients in exploring their creativity through 1:1 bedside art interaction. Art Facilitators should have strong interpersonal skills and be committed to providing excellent patient experience using effective and compassionate communication principles.
Locations: Stanford Health Care
Position: Arts for Health Facilitator, Patient Experience
Job Type: Part-Time Contractor
Schedule: Flexible
This role reports to: Arts in Wellness Program Manager
Job Description:
• Provide art sessions for patients and family members interested during unit rounds.
• Assess the patient’s interests in art and help the participant select an art project that is suitable.
• Guide and assist patients through an art project that meets their needs.
• Guard patients’ safety by practicing appropriate hand hygiene and infection prevention strategies, having all participants gel their hands before the art session, wear masks when needed etc.
• Document appropriate information on patient interactions.
• Maintain art inventory.
• Helps with other projects for the program when needed.
• Promote the program to clinical staff across different departments and units.
• Respect confidentiality
Job Qualifications:
• BA or equivalent in visual arts/art education preferred.
• Two (2) years of experience teaching art or facilitating art sessions.
• Some experience in hospitals preferred.
• Has excellent listening skills.
• Has excellent interpersonal skills with both patients and staff.
• Has a clear understanding of his/her role.
• Holds professional boundaries with patients and family members.
For more detailed information about this position or to apply
email artsinwellness@stanfordhealthcare.org
Indian dance (Bharatanatyam) to ease social loneliness and isolation in older adults
A publication by Sloka Iyengar entitled “Indian dance (Bharatanatyam) to ease social loneliness and isolation in older adults” is now published in the journal Critical Public Health.
Art Therapist or Dance/Movement
SUBMIT:
- Cover Letter
- Resume
- 3 References
SUBMIT APPLICATION PACKAGE TO:
- By email: creativeforces@artsusa.org.
- By mail: Attn: Creative Forces Project Administrator, 1000 Vermont Avenue, NW, 6thFloor, Washington DC 20005
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION:
- By email: Received no later than 5:00 pm EDT, March 27, 2020.
- By mail: Postmarked no later than March 27, 2020.
START DATE: o/a April 15, 2020
MORE INFORMATION:
Hold Still, This Won’t Hurt a Bit
Submitted by Saundra Shanti
For weeks I had walked past a physician’s clinical drawing of a heart on the white board in the Emergency Department. Whatever teachable moment had taken place, it was long over. With permission from the director, I snagged an Expo dry erase marker from the front desk, and trolled through the ED looking for a subject to draw. One of the staff, nicknamed “Mayor” for his congenial personality, was nominated by the staff at large. In just a few minutes, I drew his caricature, complete with required mask. A few days later, I added the face of one of the docs, and then a week later, another nurse. Cartooning is not my forte as an artist, but even my novice efforts allowed for humor and playfulness in what could otherwise be a tense setting. If just one good sport will hold still for a short pose, it allows the staff as a whole to let loose!
The Hummingbird Project is seeking an Activity Specialist in San Jose, CA
The Hummingbird Project is looking for an Activities Specialist to join our team in the San Jose, CA area.
The Hummingbird Project is a referral-based program, your hours will start at 30 with increase of hours over time, and your ability to be flexible and adapt to fluctuation in hours is important.
Ideal candidates for this position include activity directors, recreation therapists, teaching artists, or creative arts therapists who want to make a meaningful impact on the lives of elders through one-on-one connection. Must have a master’s degree or relevant experience in art, drama, music, expressive arts, or recreation therapy and at least 2 years working with older adults.
BENEFITS
Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package for full- and part-time positions. (Part-time positions are eligible for benefits with a consistent 20-hour per week schedule.)
Comprehensive Medical, Dental & Vision plans
HSA and FSA plans
401K
Paid time off
Annual bonus incentive
Employee referral program
REQUIREMENTS
Bachelor’s Degree required
Master’s degree or relevant experience in art, drama, music, expressive arts or recreation therapy preferred
Minimum 2 years of experience working with older adults
Experience with cognitive changes and dementia
Compassionate and empathic towards vulnerable populations
Creativity and competence developing and implementing individualized activity plans
Knowledge of holistic quality of life, life enrichment and engagement terminology
Excellent people skills: able to connect with a wide range of individuals, engage them, and put them at ease
Exemplary writing skills: professional tone and quality
Outstanding time management skills
Experience working with the G Suite platform (Google drive, gmail, etc.)
Experience working with video platforms, including Zoom, Facetime, and Google Hangouts
Valid California driver’s license, vehicle insurance, and reliable private transportation
RESPONSIBILITIES
Create and implement a variety of therapeutic activities aimed at improving client quality of life.
Plan and implement individualized activity sessions for a diverse range of clients, conducting sessions one-on-one with clients in their places of residence and group programs in facilities.
Lead art-based group activities in assisted living facilities.
Conduct regular visits with clients and care providers to provide materials and support for quality of Life (QOL) activities.
Please watch our Hummingbird Project Video to learn more about us!
At Sage Eldercare Solutions we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment and building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. Sage is an equal opportunity employer.
Sage Eldercare Solutions requires applicants to be fully up-to-date with their vaccinations against COVID-19, including the booster dose, if eligible. We do not make work-related decisions based on any legally protected characteristic or in an unlawful manner. We will engage in a prompt, good faith, interactive process with applicants who require reasonable accommodations. We encourage applicants to initiate this interactive process promptly with Sage whenever such accommodations may be required.
Compensation: This is an hourly position and the range is $36 to $40 hourly dependent on skills, experience, and education.
ON THE SCENE: WHO endorses the arts … for health (Lake Placid News)
December 12, 2019
Have you ever thought of participating in the arts for its health benefits? On Monday, Nov. 11, the World Health Organization released the results of a two-year study that endorsed the value of the arts in keeping people healthy and assisting their recovery from illness, injury and trauma. And it recommended increased use of the arts toward those ends.
Fundamentally, WHO, the lead international agency on health and well-being, is saying that just as going to the gym, hiking through the woods, playing golf or tennis, or skiing and skating are good for your health, so is participating in the arts.
Ask any kid who takes ballet at the Lake Placid Center for the Arts, and they’ll tell you they had a workout as intense as any athlete. Try conducting an orchestra for a couple of hours, and you’ll understand why Lake Placid Sinfonietta music directors are in such good shape. Of course, not all health benefits are physical; improving our mental and emotional well-being is equally important, and there the arts excel.
The World Health Organization is an agency of the United Nations that employs more than 7,000 people working out of more than 150 offices to protect and improve public health the world over. The agency, established in 1948 and based in Geneva, Switzerland, works with 194 member states across six regions toward its commitment to achieving better health for everyone.
The agency defines health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. The WHO pursues its mandate through working to improve access to quality essential medicines, health products, and services. WHO prepares for, responds to and seeks to mitigate the risks of acute health emergencies and works to improve monitoring, data, and information. Also, WHO identifies and addresses the social determinants of health and prioritizes health in all policies and healthy settings.
Underlying WHO’s work, training and recommendations are conducting and evaluating data and research, an approach that resulted in its recent announcement on the arts. Daisy Fancourt, associate professor and Wellcome Research Fellow, and Saoirse Finn, visiting researcher, both of the Institute of Epidemiology and Healthcare at the University College London, led the study.
The WHO’s initial plan wasn’t to evaluate the health benefits of the arts but look into the importance that culture plays on a theoretical and conceptual front – how cultural values, traditions, and beliefs impact and affect health outcomes. As part of that, they wanted to examine if culture as an activity and a practice had beneficial effects on health.
“We put together an expert group to advise us on the directions we should take,” said Nils Fietje, research officer for the WHO Regional Office for Europe. “After considering the issue, they expressed a strong interest in look into the effects of the arts on health. There was quite a lot of evidence out there (on the benefits of arts) but that it was something that WHO had never really considered. That’s when we got in touch with Daisy, who is one of the leading figures in this area. We asked her if she’d be willing to develop an evidence report on this, she was, and a year and a half later here we are.”
Fancourt and Finn organized their results under two broad headings, Prevention and Promotion, and Management and Treatment. Within Prevention and Promotion, their research demonstrated how the arts could affect the social determinants of health, support child development, encourage health-promoting behaviors, help prevent ill health and support caregiving. Within Management and Treatment, the findings demonstrated how the arts could help people experiencing mental illness and neurodevelopmental and neurological disorders. Also, assist with the management of noncommunicable diseases and support end-of-life care.
Looking to the Adirondacks, we can take pride in knowing and celebrating the pioneering research on the health benefits of the arts for people living with tuberculosis led by doctors Lawrason Brown and Edward Livingston Trudeau, among the first of its kind for people living with a medical health condition. Today, we can find several local examples of using the arts to support people living with trauma.
Creative Healing Connections has been using the arts over the past 20 years to help people; women, in particular, express experiences that are often too difficult to put into words, experiences such as living with cancer, rape and the trauma of combat. Creative Healing Connections staff provide their participants the opportunity to express themselves, be it individually or in concert with others through writing songs, storytelling, music, the visual arts, ritual and movement.
“There is a free flow of ideas that come from deep within that are expressed through creative art, making verses for a song, and building on a story,” said Helen Demong, who leads creative sessions for their participants. “As they hear each-others’ words, they are nodding, feeling the emotion, and know that someone hears and feels their anxieties and the hopes they have. They come out through the arts because they are unforced.”
In an allied vein, for nearly 20 years, the Adirondack Center for Writing as engaged inmates at the Federal Correctional Institute in Ray Brook. One participant wrote, “Through the class, I found that we all have traumas and feelings that are similar even though we have traveled different paths. I learned that writing about our lives is the best way to learn how to heal ourselves and to see how much potential we truly have.”
Further afield, In 2001, the Mark Morris Dance Company began offering free monthly dance classes for people living with Parkinson’s disease. The program was founded on the premise that dance, which requires learning specific expressive movements tied to music, would provide a multitude of mental and physical health benefits along with opportunities for engaging with loved ones in new and mutually beneficial ways. Research and participant outcome studies confirmed their hypnosis, and today Dance for PD has expanded to more than 100 communities in 11 countries.
As for the youth, participating in performing arts programs can help build self-confidence through singing, dancing and acting on stage, engaging in improvisation, and improving motor and communication skills.
Currently, nearly 65 percent of all medical schools use participation in the arts to improve medical students’ observational skills According to David Murphy, a research fellow at Child Trends, the favorable outcomes associated with high levels of arts participation are particularly strong for students from families with lower socioeconomic status.
Today, we can use the WHO’s report on the health benefits of the arts as an added reason for attending the upcoming LPCA Joy to the Children benefit, hosted by the Mirror Lake Inn. Participation in the arts improves the physical and mental health of our youth. It strengthens their resiliency – an excellent reason for supporting a program that engages thousands of kids from throughout our region.
Sold Out Creative Evaluation training course with Jane Willis is back November 2024
Creative and Credible Training: Creative Evaluation
Harnessing creativity to deliver rich, enjoyable and meaningful evaluation
Thursday 7th, 14th, and 21st November 2024
Online, 10am – 12.30pm UK time
Facilitated by Jane Willis
Are you frustrated with traditional evaluation methods?
Do you feel your evaluation tools don’t reflect the creative nature of your work?
Are you finding it hard to engage participants in evaluation?
Do you get poor response rates from questionnaires?
Over the course of three interactive workshops, we will look at ways in which we can better harness creativity to generate appropriate, relevant, meaningful evaluations.
From this course, I will take away:
“confidence that I can translate my other practice into evaluation.”
“using different mediums to elicit effective responses to evaluation”
– April 2024 Creative Evaluation training participants
You will discover how to evaluate in ways that are enjoyable and rewarding for participants; that generate improved response rates; and deliver richer and more meaningful data.
On this course, I enjoyed:
“Discussing our collective challenges”
“hearing other people’s creative ways of thinking about evaluation”
– April 2024 Creative Evaluation training participants
Working collaboratively, we will co-produce creative solutions to real-world scenarios. Sharing ideas and practice, we will explore ways in which creativity can reinvigorate existing evaluation methods including questionnaires, focus groups, feedback and monitoring.
After this course, I’m now thinking:
“Be more colourful and give the human story.”
“How can I use creative approaches at all stages of evaluation[?]”
– April 2024 Creative Evaluation training participants
The full cost is £225 for three workshops and all handouts.
A £75 discount is available for freelancers and self-funding individuals. Please email support@janewillis.co.uk for a coupon code.
Teaching Artist – Spoken Word Poet/Creative Writer
Summary of Position
SCA seeks insightful, equity-focused Teaching Artists committed to cultivating spaces for student-centered learning that privilege the abilities of all young people. Teaching Artist are responsible for developing and delivering Snow City Arts’ rigorous project based curriculum both virtually and in-person, recording and assessing student learning outcomes in the SCA custom-built database, and contributing to regular professional learning activities. Teaching Artists report to the Program Director and are members of the SCA staff on payroll, with guaranteed hours and other such benefits.
Full description and instructions for applicants can be found: http://www.snowcityarts.org/opportunities/
Call for Artists: Design New Sculpture For Erlanger Cancer Institute
Erlanger Health System is announcing a call to artists for a sculpture to be designed for the lobby of Erlanger’s Cancer Institute at the Baroness Hospital.
The project will be funded by a grant awarded to Arts at Erlanger from the Lyndhurst Foundation.
“We are very excited about this addition to our Arts at Erlanger program,” said Katharine Toledano, one of the chaplains at Erlanger. “The new installation will have a tremendous impact not only to the environment of our cancer center and first floor of the Baroness Hospital, but also to both the healing and inspiring properties we want to achieve for our patients and visitors.”
The plans for the sculpture include suspension from the ceiling, attached from several points via steel hooks and cannot exceed 600 pounds.
The total budget for the project will depend on the artist and materials, and cannot exceed $40,000. Projected date of completion and installation is May 1, 2019.
Local artists, who live within a 75-mile radius of the Erlanger Baroness Hospital, are encouraged to submit a letter indicating their interest and include a resume, photos of examples of previous works and other qualifications to create the requested artwork. Submissions can be hand delivered or addressed to Arts at Erlanger c/o Katharine Toledano at Katharine.Toledano@erlanger.
Artists are also welcome to tour the proposed location. An informational meeting and tour will take place on Tuesday, Nov. 27, at 10 a.m. The tour will start at the Starbucks in the Erlanger Baroness Hospital Medical Mall. Other appointments can be scheduled by contacting Katharine.Toledano@erlanger.
For more information, call 423-778-5030.
REGISTER NOW FOR NOAH’S INAUGURAL ARTS IN HEALTH CONFERENCE TRACK!
Registration is now open for NOAH’s Arts in Health track at the Healthcare Facilities Symposium and Expo (HFSE) conference in Austin, Texas from September 18-20, 2017.
The HFSE is hosting all registration for this event. Following the link below will take you to their registration site. Please select the “NOAH Pass” to register for the Arts in Health track. NOAH members will have access to a personalized VIP Code that will allow them to check out at the member rate of $500 (a discount of $150). Members of affiliate arts-related professional organizations are also eligible for a personalized code that will allow them access to the NOAH member rate. Contact the NOAH Administrator at director@thenoah.org with any questions.
A NOAH pass includes access to the Arts in Health track, 2 days of the Exposition, all keynotes, Educational Theaters, food functions including receptions and access to HFSE’s mobile App including the Online Presentation. mahjong wins 3 black scatter
While NOAH’s ability to provide scholarships is limited, we will do as much as we can to assist you if there is a financial barrier to attending the conference. Please contact NOAH at director@thenoah.org to request a scholarship or registration award application before registering for the conference track if you are interested. The deadline for scholarship application submissions is Friday, July 21.
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