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
Present-Moment Awareness - Mindfulness Practice
This audio provides a Mindful-Presense Practice session by Heather Ferris, as part of the Present-Moment Awareness curriculum on the HEALhealthcare.ca website (link to curriculum).
Now is a time of great change and hardship in the world particularly for those who are suffering disease, displacement, unkindness. Many people have experienced bias through colonization and other systems of domination and oppression. Levels of stress and anxiety are high. We are experiencing shortages of personnel within every segment of our health system. The needs of the task (including prioritizing medication) precede the best interests of the person in many cases. This leads to more stress for caregivers, families, patients and health employees. MINDFULNESS brings us into the present moment, opening our connection to ourselves and others, relieving stress.
Come back to this audio as needed to practice mindful presence.
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