NOAH BLOG
Do You Know a Senior or Child Facing a Health, Emotional or Memory Challenge?
The Songs of Love Foundation creates FREE, personalized Songs of Love for children and teens facing serious illness, as well as for seniors living with memory or health challenges. Each song is written just for them — using their name, favorite things, and the music...
Katrina (Kate) Pugh: An Architect of Connection Through Conversation
Katrina (Kate) Pugh on Using Narrative to Lead Through Change Author, educator, and professor Katrina (Kate) Pugh examines how narrative practice and intentional conversation design help leaders navigate uncertainty, disagreement, and the growing influence of AI in...
Mindworks in Conversation with Kevin Hobbs | What Theatre Can Teach Medicine
Theatre artist, educator, and Simulated Patient pedagogy leader Kevin Hobbs chats with Narrative Mindworks for a rich exploration of how performance, story, and relational work strengthen the education of future clinicians. Drawing from his work in Playbuilding,...
Wisdom in Practice: A Leader’s Journey Through the Lens of Narrative Medicine
Cindy Smalletz on Bringing Narrative Medicine Into Clinical Practice An educator-practitioner at Columbia’s Narrative Medicine program, Cindy Smalletz shares how narrative listening and reflective practice support better clinical judgment, stronger relationships, and...
Mindworks in Conversation featuring Tamela Aldridge, Executive Director at Only Make Believe
In this episode, Narrative Mindworks sits down with Tamela Aldridge, Executive Director of Only Make Believe (OMB) — a nonprofit bringing interactive theater to children in hospitals, care facilities, and special education programs. Tamela shares how OMB sparks joy,...
Street Dance Meets Mental Health in New Collaboration Between MindClay and Emmy Winner Jon Boogz
MindClay, the platform for self-guided therapeutic creative-arts-wellness, announced a major new release this week at the Behavioral Health Tech Conference in San Diego. The update adds nine new interactive activities to its existing collection of 28, expanding...
NOAH Membership and Communications Coordinator Job Opening
UPDATE: NOVEMBER 11, 2025 DUE TO OVERWHELMING RESPONSE WE ARE NOT ABLE TO ACCEPT APPLICATIONS AFTER NOVEMBER 11TH. Membership & Communications Coordinator National Organization for Arts in Health (NOAH) Remote from anywhere in the United States | Part-time (25...
Scaling Arts Integration in Healthcare
The Thrive! Healthy People • Healthy Planet photography exhibition demonstrates how arts-based interventions adapt across diverse healthcare environments, evolving into multiple formats to meet varying institutional needs and spatial constraints. The original format,...
FINAL WEEKS: Register for Training Our Eyes, Minds and Hearts: Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) for Healthcare Professionals
Registration Open through October 7, 2025 for the unique, virtual course CME, Training Our Eyes, Minds, and Hearts: Visual Thinking Strategies for Health Care Professionals, offered through Harvard Medical School Postgraduate Medical Education for CME credit. This...
Drawing Together: Where Art Meets Medicine
Narrative Mindworks takes a closer look at the intersection of art and healthcare in their feature Drawing Together: Visual Storytellers Combine Art and Medicine. The piece highlights how sketches, daily drawings, and collaborative storytelling become powerful tools...
Break Out: Using Narrative Medicine Beyond the Bars
In a recent feature from Narrative Mindworks, Brendan Panke of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s award-winning Odyssey Beyond Bars (OBB) Program shares the life-changing impact narrative medicine is having on incarcerated students. Preparing for life beyond...
Can a Painting Save a Life?
In this feature, Narrative Mindworks member Paul Engelhardt (BS, MFA) reflects on a collaboration between the Advocate Health Narrative Medicine Program and the Art Institute of Chicago. His piece explores how engaging with the painting Song of the Lark reveals the...