Greetings! Long time! And new educational offering alert!

After a year of providing distance learning classes by request, I am proud to announce that ArtsPractica will offer its first proper distance learning course this summer! Yeah!

Will you take this 90 second survey to help me gauge interest? And could you share it with colleagues who are engaged in arts-based teaching with audiences in medicine?

The program–Engaging audiences in healthcare with applied VTS teaching–is designed specifically for busy arts educators who are looking to expand their practice working with audiences in the healthcare professions (medicine, nursing, social work, physical therapy, public health, and dentistry). Experience with VTS teaching is recommended, though not required.

Because many of us are dealing with an explosion of work in this area (did you see the NYT piece last week?), I hope to help practitioners target and develop their offerings here, and to provide time and space for discussion.  I have  worked over the years to push beyond my arts education training in order to apply it to needs in medical education. After much research, trial and error, and participation at various medical meetings and conferences, I have learned some key insights that I am eager to share with others in the arts, to help develop traction and communicate value.

If you’re interested, please take this 90 second survey — and please share broadly with others.

Thanks very much!

  

PS — I will be at NAEA later this week, and would love to chat with folks about this. If you’ll be there, too: find me at my presentation (with Hope Torrents and Megan Voeller, “Teamwork, Empathy and Teaching”) on Sunday afternoon and at the Museum Educators meet-up on Sunday evening.