The Artist’s Way for Healthcare Workers - Spring 2025
“Success occurs in clusters” - The Artist’s Way
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
“For the helpers and caregivers out there who draw from the bottom of their wells day in and day out, I hope you may consider filling your own cup by joining this community journey. When we tend to our creative selves, we can come back to life. It has been an honor and privilege to journey alongside others who understand on a level hard to find anywhere else”
-Lyndsey, RN (Fall 2024 Artist’s Way Participant)
Join us for our Spring Cohort- Starting January 27th, 2025
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
No materials required - just a paper and pen!
Our 12 week journey will culminate in a live (optional) evening CELEBRATION in Los Angeles.
12 Week Virtual Accountability Individual Sign up with access to accountability group and exclusive Introspective Spaces Artist’s Way Substack
Register here by January 6!
12 week accountability group with self-facilitation guide provided to your non-profit organization or self-organized group. Maximum 8 participants. Once you register, we will create a coupon code for your organization so your participants can register individually free of charge. Please inquire for Non-Profit Pricing.
FAQs
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Absolutely! We can add you to an asynchronous group.
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You will be assigned to a weekly live accountability group via zoom. This will be peer-led with a provided facilitation guide. The goal here is to check in on how the reading and tasks have been going.
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You are right to understand this is a significant undertaking. However, we are working with the book to tailor it to our busy clinical environments and workloads. If you participate at 10%, you will still be greatly enriched.
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Although it can feel like you need to have an art practice, this journey together is more about reconnecting with your inner self by exploring your past, what gives you joy, and self-reflection. All of this aids in us becoming more creative.
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Religious Aspects of Artist's Way
Julia Cameron uses religious language in the artist's way to describe the spiritual nature of creativity. She encourages folks to replace the word "God" with the word universe, spirit or nature. It is designed to be open to folks who have religious and non-religious beliefs. There's been a lot written about how to ensure atheists or folks who are non-religious can engage comfortably in the Artist's way. We are happy to speak with anyone who has any concerns about this! Anu is a Buddhist and replaces the word "God" with "universe" in her engagement with the book.
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The book is not included in the registration fee because it is readily available in most libraries or many participants already own it! If you don’t own it, we do highly recommend buying your own copy so you can take notes or underline passages that resonate with you!
“When people ask me what I think is the single most important factor in an artist’s sustained productivity, I know I am supposed to say something like ‘solitude’, or ‘an independent income’ or ‘childcare’. All of these things are good and many people have said so, but what I think is better and more important than any of these things is what I call ‘a believing mirror’” (someone who believes in you and your creativity)”
— The Artist’s Way