Keynotes, Conferences, and University Lectures

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

  • Creativity and Hope

  • Radical Imagination and Cultural Transformation

  • Beautiful Questions and the Art of Listening

  • The power of the arts to ease isolation and loneliness

  • Beyond Ageism

  • 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:  

  • Keynote, Arts and Social Connection Conference. High Museum, Atlanta, GA. March 2026.

  • Public Lecture, Evansville Public Library, Evansville, IN. March 2026.

  • Keynote and workshop: DeWolf Innovation Center, Mercy Health, Cedar Rapids, IA, Nov. 2025.

  • Keynote: Brookdale National Respite Program Conference; Teaneck, NJ, Oct. 2024.

  • Keynote: Consumer Voice conference; San Francisco, Sept. 2024.

  • 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 now offers a Trainer Institute, virtually or in-person as part of its initiative to create 10 Million Moments of Joy & Connection.

 

Basting presents at Imagining America’s annual conference