Creativity and Well-Being for Personal and Professional Growth

Venue: Trinity Long Room Hub

Formal Welcome

• Linda Doyle, Provost & President, Trinity College Dublin
• Brian Lawlor, MD, FRCPI, FRCPsych, Site Director, GBHI and Conolly Norman Professor of Old Age Psychiatry, Trinity College
• Carmel O’Sullivan, Professor in Education and Head of School in the School of Education in Trinity College, Convenor of the Arts Education Research Group, Dublin
• Ieva Petkutė, Arts Researcher, Arts Manager, Atlantic Fellow, GBHI and lead of the National Association “Dementia Lithuania”, Lithuanian Sports University

Welcome Activity 

• Mary Warbelow, Learning Experience Administrative Officer, GBHI

Duration: 9:45-10:30am 

In the session we will give a concise insight into seven Intellectual Outputs (IO) that were created in the project by reflecting how partners of this project applied creativity as a tool to facilitate learning experience and support learners’ well-being. 

The session will comprise five-minute presentations by the members of the ARTHEWE project team followed by reflections from the audience moderated by Carmel O’Sullivan, Ieva Petkutė and Mike Hanrahan, Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health, musician, author and songwriter.

Introducing Creative Pedagogical approaches of multiform pedagogy in European Higher Education Institutions.

• Liisa Laitinen, MA, Arts & Health Adviser, Turku University of Applied Sciences 

Promoting students professional growth in Master’s degree programme Creative well-being.

• Liisa-Maria Lilja-Viherlampi, PhD, MM, Principal lecturer in Creative Wellbeing, Turku University of Applied Sciences 

Backcasting sustainable and healthy working life with Arts and Music - does it do any harm?

The digital life of a ten step program supporting mental health with arts - maintenance and updates. 

• Eva Bojner Horwitz, PhD, Professor of music and health, Royal College of Music, Stockholm; Department of clinical neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet
• David Thyren, PhD, Senior lecturer in musicology, Royal College of Music, Stockholm

The development of a course on health and well-being promotion through creative methods 

• Evanthia Sakellari, RHV, MSc, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Public and Community Health, Laboratory of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of West Attica

The pathway of arts and well-being as a part of leadership development in the Global Brain Health Institute

• Ieva Petkutė, Arts Researcher, Arts Manager, Atlantic Fellow, GBHI and lead of the National Association “Dementia Lithuania” 

Pedagogies for flourishing in uncertainty and complexity - exploring leadership, trust and conflict resolution with clinical undergraduates via arts-based learning approaches

• Flora Smyth Zahra, Clinical Senior Lecturer Interdisciplinarity & Innovation Dental Education, Restorative Dentist, Clinical Humanities Lead, Faculty of Dentistry Oral & Craniofacial Sciences, King’s College London 

Duration: 10:30-11:05am

Moderators:

• Carmel O’Sullivan, Professor in Education and Head of School in the School of Education in Trinity College, Convenor of the Arts Education Research Group, Dublin
• Ieva Petkutė, Arts Researcher, Arts Manager, Atlantic Fellow, GBHI and lead of the National Association “Dementia Lithuania”, Lithuanian Sports University
• Mike Hanrahan, Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health, musician, author and songwriter.  

Audience is invited to reflect on presentations shared by the international group of partners and their own experience. 

Followed by a break until 11:20am.

Duration: 11.20am-12.30pm

In the panel discussion we will explore how concepts of “Well-being”, “Arts” and “Creativity” may become a part of aspiration for quality, equity within the training process. What is the cost of bringing the well-being to the center of education? How can arts be an integral part of education, where policy-leadership-research-practice are interlinked?    

Moderated by Brian Lawlor, Site Director, GBHI, Trinity College
 
Participants: 

• ARTHEWE project team
• Carmel O’Sullivan, Professor in Education, Trinity College
• Eoin Cotter, PhD, Learning Experience Lead, GBHI
• Ilse White, Learning Experience Researcher, The Learnovate Centre at Trinity College 

Followed by Q&A.

There will be a break for lunch from 12:30-1:15pm

Duration: 1:15-3:15pm    

Venue: Dance Studio in the Samuel Beckett Theatre

The term embodiment is used widely in arts practice, but lacks definition and specificity in relation to transdisciplinary pedagogical spaces. This workshop will engage participants in embodied dance and movement practices, drawing upon our collective capacities for leadership in forming a working construct. Together, we will explore leadership through dance to co-evolve an enactive understanding and use of the term embodiment in practice-driven research. 

Facilitators: 

• Glenna Batson, Professor Emeritus, Physical Therapy, Winston-Salem State University, Dance Faculty, Peabody Institute for the Johns Hopkins University USA, former Fulbright Senior Specialist. 
• Aline Haas, BSc, PhD, dance and Pilates practitioner/researcher and educator; Associate Professor, Department of Physical Education, Physiotherapy and Dance, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health, GBHI
• Magda Kaczmarska, MFA, Dance Artist, Founder, Dancestream Projects. Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health, GBHI; Vice President, Foundation Dementia Action Alliance Poland. 

Followed by a break until 3:30pm.

Duration: 1:15-3:15pm    

Venue: Global Brain Health Institute, Lloyd Building

Life Story Arts is an exciting and emergent approach which celebrates the individual person and their unique life story. This experiential session will invite you to reflect and share aspects of your own story to support well-being.

Facilitators: 

• Karin Diamond, Re-Live Life Story Arts Organisation Artistic Director, Wales; Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health, GBHI
• Alison O’Connor, Re-Live Life Story Arts Organisation Co-Founder and Clinical Supervisor, Wales. 

Followed by a break until 3:30pm.

Duration: 3:30-4:45pm

Venue: Trinity Research in Social Sciences (TRISS)

Enhancing individual’s ability to perform in a leadership role within their lives, communities and organizations is increasingly becoming a teaching focus. The Global Brain Health Institute is training leaders to address the challenges related with the risk to brain health. 

What is the experience of applying embodied arts practice to train leadership capacities? How embodiment in the learning experience helps us to rethink the ways we learn and connect with our communities and organisations? 

Moderated by Aline Haas, Dance and Pilates practitioner/researcher and Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health, GBHI

Participants:

• Glenna Batson, Professor Emeritus, Physical Therapy, Winston-Salem State University, Dance Faculty, Peabody Institute for the Johns Hopkins University USA, former Fulbright Senior Specialist
• Magda Kaczmarska, MFA, Dance Artist, Founder, Dancestream Projects. Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health, GBHI; Vice President, Foundation Dementia Action Alliance Poland. 
• Kai Kennedy, PT, DPT, Vice Chair of Equity and Associate Professor of Physical Therapy, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science at University of California, San Francisco, Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity.
• Mark Rietema, Integrative/Process Oriented Psychotherapist & Facilitator (UK Council for Psychotherapy); Somatic Movement Practitioner (Body-Mind Centering Association); Faculty member Embody Move UK & Institut für Prozessarbeit; Community Artist (MA) & Researcher (Affiliated with King’s College, UK).

Followed by Q&A