Listen a conversation with Aaren Yeatts Perry the president of Education Action Resources and poet and creative writing teacher for 20 years.
Wherever I go, I’m drawn to outsider art on city walls. Art museums, like sanctuaries, feel restrained—quiet, controlled, and deliberate. In contrast, street art, with its unfiltered energy, genuine expression, and often rough edges, sparks my awareness of the vitality found at the fringes of society. Museums conserve history; the art on the streets speaks of the present moment.
Changemaker employs the practice of therapeutic self-exploration and storytelling to help frontline caregivers connect with patients on a personal and purposeful level.
Maya Sorini, an award-winning poet and medical student, reflects: “Writing is how I accomplish that reflexively human behavior of reaching out.”
Watch & listen to a conversation with writer, poet, and narrative medicine practitioner Nicole Robinson MD, MS Narrative Medicine.
Listen to a conversation with Dr. Rajan Sankaran, an internationally renowned homeopath, researcher, teacher, and author who has been in narrative practice since 1981.
In this Mindworks in Conversation, Gayle Gliva-McConvey, President Gliva-MConvey & Associates shares the journey of the Association of Standardized Patient Educators (ASPE) in developing their "standards of best practice."
She begins with highlight stressing the importance of standards in ensuring consistency, quality, and effectiveness in standardized patient education. And further discusses the collaborative efforts that went into establishing these guidelines that now serve as the core foundation for educators and practitioners in the field.
Watch a conversation with Slavena Salve Nissan about her journey as a child from Azerbaijan to Brooklyn, and how growing up in a multilingual family influenced her love of words and writing.
Kathy Riley, former screenwriter and current associate director of cancer support programs who holds master’s degrees in narrative medicine and public health, shares how her son’s and sister’s cancer journeys inspire her to help others facing illness.
Watch a conversation with Eva Chroni, MFA Communications about her prose poetry, her book The Modernist Version of Memoring, and the nature of memory and remembering.
