The Artist’s Way for Healthcare workers

We believe healing our creativity as healthcare workers can assist in healing our moral distress and reclaiming our agency.

The Artist’s Way for Healthcare Workers is a twelve week workbook to reconnect with your inner artist through play, reflection, exercises, and examining inner beliefs about creativity.

In a healthcare system bent on efficiency and productivity, this cohort is a journey toward finding one’s own humanity again.

We feel this is especially important for our community of healthcare workers since many of us put our inner artist/ child on hold when we entered our healthcare training and haven’t quite figured out how to reawaken them. We see this as an important tool in unblocking our own creativity, healing our imagination, so we can reimagine a new way forward into healthcare together.

We piloted this group in Fall 2024 with a group of 45 healthcare workers across the country and specialties. It was a transformative journey and a true honor to witness. We are excited to welcome healthcare workers to our second cohort of The Artist’s Way for Healthcare Workers.

We will be offering this to individuals in our community, but we are also seeking clinics, units, and workplaces that are interested in forming a group for a discounted rate. If you think two or more folks may be interested in your workplace, please reach out so we can start organizing!

Read about my experience as a nurse and doing the Artists Way here

• No artistic experience needed!

• Join a small pod of 3-5 people to meet weekly for live accountability, insights, and sharing. We survey your time preference at registration and do our best to find a time that works for you. If you are joining with your own organization, your group can pick a time that works for you all.

• There is an option to join fully asynchronously (Weekly checking on WhatsApp)

• We will read asynchronously one chapter a week and check in about the creative practices offered by the book

• Private WhatsApp group with the wider community of healthcare workers doing Artist’s Way together during the journey to share insights, experiences, and questions

• Weekly Artist’s Way specific newsletter tailoring the journey to the healthcare worker experience

• The groups will be given self- facilitation guides and are peer-led

• Only materials required: The Artist’s Way book by Julia Cameron, a pen, and a notebook!

• 3 CE option available