SPEAKING / TEACHING

Keynotes, Conferences, and University Lectures

I present regularly, including workshops and keynotes addressing a range of topics that include:

• the power of the arts to ease isolation and loneliness

• simple ways to infuse creativity and meaning-making into care relationships

• the transformative power of creative engagement in health and social care systems

Some recent examples:  

• The Stephen Katz Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Interdisciplinary Aging Studies, Trent University. Peterborough, ONT, Nov. 2023.

• Plenary, the International Neuropalliative Care Society conference, Minneapolis, Sept. 2023.

• How Artists Practice Now. Duke University, Nov. 2022

• Keynote, Georgia Gerontological Society annual meeting. August 2022

• Cleveland Clinic, June 2022

• Gertrude Hinz lecture, North Dakota State University, April 2022

• Visiting Scholar, UCSF’s Dept of Geriatric and Palliative Care, Grand Rounds, March 2022

• Keynote, USC Judith Tamkin Symposium on Elder Abuse, Feb. 2022

• Texas Aging and Longevity Center, UT Austin, May 2021

• Georgetown University, April 2021

• Moore College of Art & Design, February 2021

• The Hogstel Symposium, Texas Christian University, January 2021

• Grantmakers in Aging, November 2020

• University of Pennsylvania Memory Center, May 2020

• Indiana Arts Homecoming, October 2019

• University of Wisconsin’s Institute on Aging, Annual Symposium, September 2019

• Pioneer Network Conference, August 2019

• Eden Alternative Conference, May 2018

• DesMoines University, April 2018
  

Classes

• Story Experience Fellow Program (year-long community partnership)

• Storytelling

• Collaborating with Community

• Grant writing

• Arts and Social Entrepreneurship

• Student Artist in Residence Experience

• Playwriting

• Directing

Residencies

I offer ongoing virtual and in-person consulting, and residencies to create new work or train others to do the same.

Most recently:

• Duke University;

• Moore College of Art & Design;

• USC’s School for Dramatic Arts;

• Thomas Jefferson University’s Medical Humanities program;

• University of Michigan Museum of Art.

Workshops

For training in TimeSlips, the amazing team over at TimeSlips offer these workshops regularly and can help you arrange online or in-person training/workshops.

TimeSlips also offers the multi-day Create Change Institute - 2-3 days of creative engagement workshops and project design that inspire new ways of infusing joy and meaning into care.

• Milwaukee, WI 2020 (virtual)

• Louisville, KY 2018

• Phoenix, AZ 2017

• Milwaukee, WI 2018, 2016, 2014, 2012