Nissley shares Passion for Leadership Storytelling and Organizational Change

We heard recently from Dr. Nick Nissley, Executive Director of Leadership Development at The Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta. Nick earned his doctorate of education degree from George Washington University’s Graduate School of Education and Human Development, in an interdisciplinary program, focused in human resource development (executive leadership in organizational learning). At the center of Nick’s work is applied imagination – helping individuals, organizations, and communities transform themselves through learning, as they confront real-world challenges.

Over the past 10 years, Nick has helped define the field of arts based learning in management education. In a recent article in "Issues and Observations" Nick reported "the business world in recent years has shown increasing interest in the narrative lens and more specifically in the relationship between leadership storytelling and organizational change."

Baycrest Bringing Creativity into Clinical Practice with Older Adults

Baycrest Social Workers are pleased to present
The Walter Lyons Memorial Social Work Clinic Day
Bringing Creativity into Clinical Practice with Older Adults
Friday, November 12, 2010
The Joseph E. & Minnie Wagman Centre
55 Ameer Avenue, Toronto, Ontario (on the Baycrest Campus)

Sponsorship generously provided by:
The Walter Lyons Memorial Fund
The Ben & Hilda Katz Centre for Gerontological Social Work

PROGRAM

8:00 Registration and Refreshments

8:45 Welcome & Introductory Remarks

Dr. William Reichman, President and CEO, Baycrest

Ms. Peggy Arden, Chairperson, Baycrest Social Work Clinic Day Planning Committee

9:00 Still Life!: Why Making Art Makes Sense

Robin Glazer, MS

The benefits of providing quality arts experiences to older adults have been proven and these
benefits include better health, stronger cognition, increased social interaction and,some suggest, longer lives. Developing best practices in providing arts to older adults can produce a rejuvenating effect on the entire community, from participants to their caregivers.

9:45 The Creative Spirit….
A View of the World

Joel Walker, MD, FRCPC

In this presentation Dr. Walker will discuss how a group of institutionalized elderly with varied
impairments became consciously involved in developing their own potential and growth through
the use of photography.

10:30 Refreshment Break

10:45 Using Drama to Humanize Dementia Care

Pia Kontos, PhD

This presentation will explore the effectiveness of drama in the context of the qualitative
evaluation of an arts-informed educational program on person-centred dementia care. Analysis of focus groups and interviews with nurses and allied health care practitioners who participated in the program suggests that drama is an effective pedagogical tool and is well positioned to
strengthen initiatives that seek to improve dementia care.

11:30 Q & A Panel with Keynote Speakers

12:00 Voices of the Terraces Theatre Troupe

The cast members of this theatre group are 80 years and over, and perform a range of mini-plays thematically based on the emotional, psychological and physical experiences of aging and living in a retirement setting.

12:30 Lunch

Followed by workshop sessions

For more information:Please contact Paula Ferreira at 416-785-2500 ext. 2363 or e-mail pferreira@baycrest.org

Artist Filmmaker Seeks Healthcare Equity in Territories of the Breast

See film


photo from: http://www.soniabaezhernandez.com/performance.htm

Sonia Báez-Hernández is an artist, filmmaker and cancer survivor who has produced a powerful film with a message for change. Territories of the Breast raises awareness about discriminatory health practices and healthcare inequities for minority women in the U.S

The film is a personal narrative featuring Báez-Hernández and her story and also profiles interviews with cancer survivors. Artist and Producer, Sonia Báez-Hernández, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2001 at an outpatient facility in Evanston. While at the facility, she reports, she canceled her surgery twice because her rights to participate in critical decisions about her care were violated.

This documentary clearly demonstrates that navigating the healthcare system without medical coverage can be a confusing, harsh and at times dismissive experience.

Báez-Hernández interviews women who have fought for their lives and lived through cancer while battling the system seeking treatment. The film stresses the importance of early detection and medical care for all women and questions how in a country of enormous wealth, preventive healthcare is neither affordable nor equitable for all citizens.

Territories of the Breast courageously ventures into challenging territory exploring difficult questions about human rights and healthcare, a film by an artist, filmmaker and healthcare reform champion that could open the way for transformative change.

Cheryl McLean, Publisher International Journal of the Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice

See a Youtube excerpt below from

Sonia Báez-Hernández film "Territories of the Breast" here:

Alberta Artist Designs for Blockbuster Films

Thought you might find this youtube video excerpt featuring University of Alberta Fine Arts grad Todd Cherniawsky interesting. As he mentions in this video, Todd brings many interdisciplinary skills to his artistic work. He contributed to blockbusters such as Sphere, The Hulk, Oceans 13, War of the Worlds, and most recently, James Cameron's Avatar, the biggest grossing film of all time.

Avatar, my favourite film. Just wish I could design a perky one to leap from tree to tree when
I'm being chased by my publishing deadlines :)


Front row seats, Check this video out to hear from a successful artist and designer from Alberta, sorry about the nudging of the blog sidebar for space on this one...

Thanks to Youtube...and to Geoff McMaster U of Alberta for producing this video...

CM

Participatory Action Research and Social technology Topics at iSchool Workshop

We recently heard from IJCAIP subscriber Catherine Moravac a Clinical Research Coordinator in the Maternity Care Project, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology St. Michael's Hospital. Catherine has been active in participatory research with young pregnant women in Toronto in a Filmmaker in Residence project at St. Michael's Hospital (a collaborative effort with the National Film Board)

Health Information Collaboration and Exchange First Steps for New Researchers Workshop

In a new workshop with the iSchool Institute, Faculty of Information University of Toronto, Susan Gratsaris and Catherine Moravac will introduce participants to a variety of databases for collecting literature in the health sciences. They will also introduce ways in which social technology can promote collaboration between patients, their caregivers and medical providers as well as qualitative research approaches which have been used in the ‘exchange’ of health information at the community level.

Instructors will also be discussing Participatory Action Research (PAR) as a methodology for advocacy and collaboration with marginalized communities.

A case study will be presented in which a team of researchers, health care providers and filmmakers worked collaboratively with young, homeless pregnant women on a project which strove for social and political change. Participants will learn more about this project including the overall process and outcomes, consent, ethical issues, data collection, community engagement and lessons learned.

This sounds like an excellent workshop for those active in research for hope and change.

More information

IJCAIP Shaping Field of Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice

IJCAIP Beginnings.....

The seeds were planted in the spring of 2006. At that time I had envisioned a global community linked around the creative arts and its broader applications in practice, a network that would extend beyond any single modality, methodology or exclusive field of study drawn from across disciplinary borders in health, education and training.

Art by Robert Kelly

To achieve this goal, and to provide the necessary communication channels for research and information, individuals were identified and organizations interested in arts in health, training and education were contacted personally to ask if they might like to access a web based newsletter that featured articles about the creative arts as applied across disciplines. The response to this gentle inquiry was overwhelmingly positive. The Canadian Creative Arts in Health Training and Education e/newsjournal or CCAHTE as it was known, was launched in September 2006 as an open access (OA) internet news/journal, the interdisciplinary journal of the creative arts in health, training and education. The advisory board was established with representation from leading universities and institutions across North America and diverse disciplines in education, healthcare (nursing, public health, medicine) fine arts and design. We operated CCAHTE on a free subscription basis and welcomed articles from contributors worldwide.

Three years later, in consultation with the journal advisory board and to reflect the publication's broadening scope and international status as the open access peer reviewed academic journal in the field, the journal was renamed The International Journal of the Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, IJCAIP.

Today, The International Journal of the Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, IJCAIP, has a large international subscriber base and is accessible to researchers, educators and students in over 15,000 libraries in 60 countries around the world including developing nations.

Publishing activities at IJCAIP have contributed significantly to propagating a new and fertile knowledge base for research and information about the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice. The publication sponsors a number of interconnected IJCAIP websites as well as a monthly newsletter and several creative arts in interdisciplinary practice blogs. This year, IJCAIP, with Editor, Cheryl McLean (Publisher of IJCAIP) and Advisory Board member and Associate Editor, Robert Kelly, University of Calgary, will be publishing two new research texts, "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" and "Creative Arts in Research for Community and Cultural Change" (Detselig Temeron Press).

It has been our intention to illustrate the considerable breadth and scope of this field while featuring leaders active in the work in action and practice. We continue to foster and encourage new research as well as carry the message across disciplines sharing news about the many applications of the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice with a growing worldwide readership.

The journey continues,

Cheryl McLean, Publisher IJCAIP

subscription to IJCAIP Journal is free with an email to CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com "please subscribe"

SIU brings MD, novelist, playwright to conference

SIU School of Medicine event Friday June 25, 2010

to feature Stephen Bergman, MD, Doctor, Novelist, Playwright

Staying Human in Medicine: From “The House of God” to “The Spirit of the Place”

Samuel Shem, pen-name of Stephen Bergman, is a doctor, novelist, playwright and activist. A Rhodes scholar, he is a graduate of Harvard College Phi Beta Kappa, received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School, and his Ph.D. in Physiology from Oxford University. He was on the faculty of Harvard Medical School for three decades.

The CME event will be a blend of medical humanities and clinical updates.


(It is good to see the intersections of arts and medicine featured at SIU.)

We invite you to check out the full program here:


See program pdf