H.E.A.L. Healthcare
Hearts-based Education and Anti-Colonial Learning (H.E.A.L.) Healthcare invites you to explore ways we have come to be in this world through arts-based learning tools providing an opportunity to deepen understandings about cultural humility, cultural competency, anti-racism, and anti-colonialism.
This podcast channel shares the audio inspired H.E.A.L. projects in one location. Be sure to read the podcast description for links to the project pages on the H.E.A.L. website to get all the background and learning resources.
To see all the learning tools, go to https://healhealthcare.ca/.
Health and Medical humanities are growing interdisciplinary fields bringing together health and medical sciences with arts (things like theater, creative writing, poetry, music, or painting and drawing). The podcasts created as part of the HEAL Healthcare curriculum are one part of that arts-based learning for healthcare providers, administrators, educators and learners.
Visit https://healtharts.ca/ for more information about the Health Arts Research Centre at the University of Northern British Columbia.
H.E.A.L. Healthcare
Poetry as Medicine: I Am a Body of Land
I Am a Body of Land, is the first recording in a 3-part series by poet Shannon Webb-Campbell that was created to address racial and sexual biases in healthcare.
As a queer Mi'kmaq-settler poet, writer, and editor, I believe all arts are medicine. This project addresses healthcare provider biases via arts-based learning by giving three literary readings from my publications: Lunar Tides (Book*hug 2022), I Am a Body of Land (Book*hug 2019), and Still No Word (Breakwater 2015), as well as my forthcoming collection Re: Wild Her (Book*hug 2025). Along with these audio recordings, there are resources with questions that will guide learners through potential biased issues of gender, race, sexual orientation, classism, colonialism, and homophobia.
Go to Shannon Webb-Campbell's H.E.A.L. Healthcare page to access the resources prior to listening.
The Hearts-based Education and Anti-colonial Learning Project brings together artists, writers, activists, and people with lived experience to create arts-based anti-oppression curriculum and learning materials for healthcare educators, professionals, and practitioners wanting to address biases and ‘-isms’ that permeate healthcare systems and culture. The curricula provided on this site address the longstanding and well-established health disparities exist because of racist, colonial, able-body/minded, geographic, economic, and gendered inequities.
For more learning opportunities, visit healhealthcare.ca