All Upcoming Events
Healing in Creative Community: A Retreat for Nurses
Sometimes the most important partnerships begin with a single email.
A few years ago, Lyndsey — an oncology nurse in the Seattle area — saw our Artist’s Way posting on the PSONS listserv. She didn’t just sign up. She gathered a whole community around it. She held us through the hard moments and cheered us through the good ones. And now here we are.
On April 11th, we get to show up together — in person — for Healing in Creative Community: A Sacred Pause for Oncology Nurses with the Puget Sound Oncology Nursing Society in Renton, WA.
This retreat is everything we believe in: making space for the stories nurses carry, moving through moral distress with creativity, and remembering our own wholeness.
There are a few seats left. You don’t have to be a PSONS member to attend. If you’re a nurse in the Seattle area (or know one who needs this), email us at hello@introspectivespaces.com to register.
To Lyndsey and to PSONS — thank you for being the kind of community that actually breaks the mold. 🌿
📅 April 11 | 8:30AM–12:30PM | Renton, WA
✨ 3.25 CEs | Limited to 50 participants
💛 $25 for PSONS members | $50 for non-members (after deposit refund)
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing CEP# 18000 for 3.25 CE
Artist’s Way Alumni Gathering
Artist’s Way Alumni Gathering
This community gathering will be an alumni-only event to reconnect, hear from each other about your creative journeys, and make some art together!
Creativity as Ritual Webinar
Introspective Spaces x BACII presents:
Creativity as Ritual: Supporting Healthcare Workers for Resilience and Sustainability
A virtual conversation focused on creativity as vital care for healthcare workers and for the communities they serve.
Event Details:
Wednesday 4/29 from 12- 1 pm PST
Virtual Webinar
Register Below
Healthcare workers regularly witness grief, loss, and profound human vulnerability—yet the systems they work within often lack the rituals needed to process these experiences. In increasingly secular and fast-paced healthcare environments, meaningful spaces for reflection, integration, and renewal are often missing.
This webinar explores how creativity can function as a modern form of ritual, offering healthcare workers supportive tools for resilience, emotional processing, and long-term sustainability in their work.
Designed for healthcare professionals, end-of-life clinicians, oncology and palliative care clinicians, and anyone who supports people at the end of life — we will explore how creative practices can help restore meaning, connection, and care within demanding healthcare systems.
During this hour long webinar, we will:
Explore the importance of ritual in caring professions
Discuss the absence of ritual in modern healthcare environments
Understand how creative practice can serve as an accessible ritual for processing emotional labor
Engage in a guided creative reflection exercise
Offer ways to stay connected and deepen this work beyond the webinar
This webinar invites participants to reconnect with creativity not as a luxury, but as a vital ritual of care—for themselves and for the communities they serve.
Sign up below to join us.
Our Facilitators
Mangda Sengvanhpheng
Mangda is an artist, death doula, and the founder of BACII, a platform that focuses on loss and grief while providing services and offerings for individuals, communities, and organizations that renew our engagement with life.
Mangda has seven years working in the end-of-life field along with over a decade of experience working in the creative and healing arts. Her life and death work is guided by her Lao last name, which means “the light of the full moon. Mangda’s work has been featured in VICE, Vogue, Architectural Digest, NY Mag’s Curbed, and more.
Anu Gorukanti, MD
Anu Gorukanti, MD is a pediatric hospitalist and public health advocate whose work sits at the intersection of health equity, racial justice, and physician wellbeing. She completed her medical training at Saint Louis University and her residency at Stanford University, where she deepened her commitment to building reflective communities within healthcare. Driven by the belief that contemplation and social justice are inseparable, she co-founded Introspective Spaces, a social enterprise/non-profit organization dedicated to creating healing and reflective communities for healthcare workers. Through this work, Anu champions a vision of healthcare reimagined through care, authenticity, and courageous action.
Artist's Way Spring 2026
Artist’s Way Spring Cohort Registration Is Officially Open!
Healthcare workers and mental health professionals deserve to feel whole—not just as professionals, but as creative, imaginative humans.
We’ve been there. We know what it’s like to edit out your own dimensions for the sake of your career. At Introspective Spaces, we believe that healing our creativity as healthcare workers and mental health professionals can help heal our moral distress and reclaim our agency.
That’s why we offer The Artist’s Way for Healthcare Workers—a 12-week community journey to rediscover creativity, reflection, and play.
The Artist’s Way for Healthcare Workers is more than a book club - we're reimagining creativity and community in healthcare. Join us as we build communities of care for healthcare across the country.
Join us for Spring 2026!
Interdisciplinary Love and Friendship Walk
Join us for a community walk for healthcare workers this Valentine’s Day.
A practice of love-as-action for people who do care work, across disciplines. Supporting healthcare workers navigating moral distress through reflection and community.
This is a chance to connect, reflect, and remember we’re not alone in holding the stories, grief, and moral distress of healthcare work. In a heavy moment, walking together feels especially important.
Saturday, 2/14
0930 am
Los Angeles Meeting Point - Playa del Rey Beach
Sacramento Meeting Point - Mississippi Bar Fair Oaks—We’ll meet at Winding Oak Trail Access and walk together to the labyrinth (about 1 mile in, 1 mile back)
Always On Call: Caretaker Guilt in Parenting and Practice
When was the last time you noticed how often guilt is quietly running the show?
What would it feel like to rest—without guilt?
Join us on February 12 at 11 AM PST for a special Conversation with the Author gathering with Dr. Jennifer Reid—Artist’s Way alum and author of the forthcoming book Guilt Free.
Hosted by Artist’s Way Parents Group co-facilitators, Dr. Arunima Brown and Dr. Megan Kamath, this intimate conversation will explore what it means to live and work in a state of being “always on”—to our families, to our patients, to the healthcare system, and to society. Together, we’ll reflect on how guilt can quietly shape our choices and our exhaustion, and how we might begin to loosen its hold through compassion, truth-telling, and creative practice.
This is a conversation for anyone longing to live and create with a little more freedom. Join us as we explore how to navigate our own relationships with grief and how we can support each other.
Event Details:
February 12 @ 11:00 AM PST (virtual)
Artist's Way Free Info Webinar
Interested in learning more about The Artist’s Way?
Join us for our free upcoming info webinar!
Thursday, Feb 5th
1215 pm PST
Scan the QR code or fill out the form below to register
Celebrating Creativity in Healthcare
A free celebration centering self-expression, joy, and connection for healthcare workers.
Celebrating Creativity in Healthcare
A free virtual celebration centering self-expression, joy, and connection for healthcare workers.
Celebrating Creativity in Healthcare
A free afternoon soiree centering self-expression, joy, and connection for healthcare workers.
Celebrating Creativity in Healthcare
A free evening soiree centering self-expression, joy, and connection for healthcare workers.
Collective Care in Practice: Interdependence Across Healthcare Roles
Focus: Exploring the mutual well-being of healthcare workers across specialties and silos. The webinar will be recorded for participants who are unable to attend the live webinar
CE Alignment: Interdisciplinary collaboration, professional communication, team wellness, workplace culture.
Refund policy: Full refunds allowed up to 7 days before the event
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #18000, for 1 Contact Hour
Creativity as a Professional Competency: Integrating the Arts into Clinical Practice
Focus: How creative problem-solving, aesthetic awareness, and the arts can be used to enhance nursing/healthcare practice, patient care, and professional well-being. The webinar will be recorded for participants who are unable to attend the live webinar.
CE Alignment: Advanced nursing courses, retention of nurses, advanced patient monitoring, nursing research.
Refund policy: Full refunds allowed up to 7 days before the event
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #18000, for 1 Contact Hour
Free Creativity, Community Care & Clinical Practice Workshop
In clinical settings, creativity isn’t just about art—it’s about presence, perspective, and problem-solving. When healthcare workers engage their creative minds, they cultivate the ability to listen more deeply, respond more flexibly, and connect more authentically with patients.
Creativity helps us move beyond checklists and protocols to see the full humanity of the people we serve. It allows us to navigate uncertainty, approach challenges with compassion, and imagine new ways of caring—even when systems fall short.
When practiced in community, creativity becomes a form of resilience. It supports clinician wellbeing, prevents burnout, and brings us back to the heart of why we entered this work in the first place.
Whether through writing, storytelling, movement, or reflection, creative practice can remind us:
✨ We are not just providers—we are people, too.
💛 Come see what’s possible. Join us.
Join us for a free virtual gathering on October 6th at 12 PM to explore how creativity in community can support our wellbeing as clinicians and improve patient care!
In this free, one-hour virtual gathering, we will explore how creativity—rooted in community—can nourish clinician wellbeing and enhance patient care.
In a time when so many healthcare workers are stretched thin, this space offers reflection, inspiration, and connection. Together, we’ll engage in simple creative practices that support emotional resilience, cultivate presence, and remind us of the deeper “why” in our work. Creativity is not a replacement for systems change, but it is a skillset that helps us work towards a healthcare systems (and world) rooted in care, love, and justice.
This gathering is open to all healthcare workers, students, and clinicians across disciplines. No artistic experience needed—just curiosity and a willingness to show up.
🖋️ What to expect:
Gentle creative reflection for fun & play
Conversation in community
A pause to reconnect with purpose
Intertwined Well-Being: The Clinician-Patient Connection
Focus: Exploring the mutuality between clinician and patient well-being through narrative medicine, reflective practices, and relational care. The webinar will be recorded for participants who are unable to attend the live webinar.
CE Alignment: Patient care, communication, provider wellness, professional development
Refund policy: Full refunds allowed up to 7 days before the event
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #18000, for 1 Contact Hour
The Creative Path: Healing Moral Distress Through Reflective & Expressive Practices
Focus: Define moral distress and explore how creative expression (writing, art, movement) can be a tool for processing moral distress and building moral agency. The webinar will be recorded for participants who are unable to attend the live webinar.
CE Alignment: Burnout, Moral Distress
Refund policy: Full refunds allowed up to 7 days before the event
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #18000, for 1 Contact Hour
Artist’s Way Bookclub
Please join us for 12 weeks of reading, art practices, and weekly live check-in meetings with a small group to reconnect with your creativity.
Fostering Moral Agency – Strategies & Tools for Healthcare Workers
Session 2: Fostering Moral Agency – Strategies & Tools for Healthcare Workers – December 2, 2024
Imagine a future where the environment for healthcare prioritizes moral clarity and action. In this webinar, we will focus on empowering healthcare workers to identify and strengthen their Moral Agency. Participants can expect practical strategies and tools to help them navigate moral distress individually and inter-personally.
Session 3: Community Care for Moral Resilience
Session 2: Fostering Moral Agency – Strategies & Tools for Healthcare Workers – December 2, 2024
Imagine a future where the environment for healthcare prioritizes moral clarity and action. In this webinar, we will focus on empowering healthcare workers to identify and strengthen their Moral Agency. Participants can expect practical strategies and tools to help them navigate moral distress individually and inter-personally.
Moral Distress & Why It Matters
Session 1: Moral Distress and Why It Matters – November 18, 2024
Join us as we unpack the concept of moral distress and its profound impact on clinical practice. In part one of this three part series, we will define moral distress, its presentation and delve into the causes of ethical implications of moral distress. We will also examine two case study examples, highlighting the lived experiences of healthcare workers.
Summer Break
Join us for a month of asynchronous art making in a community of fellow healthcare workers!
Making art is a way of paying attention, to ourselves, to the world around us, and to the marvels of creativity and imagination.
Come as you are! Professional artist, causal creator and stick figure aficionados alike.