The Essential Power of Creativity and Compassion in Healthcare
Keynote: April 30th 2026
Réalta Developing Arts + Health in Ireland
Check Up, Check In Conference
The Dock Arts Centre, Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim
Wonderful opportunities to share experiences, exchange ideas and inspire one another through supportive presentations.
My Keynote affirms the power of creative health for people accessing services, their families and staff.
I'll also be sharing:
a) how to recognise myths and assumptions beneath barriers to creativity and compassion in healthcare.
b) ways to support your nervous system and remain grounded in your integrity while working in the land of creative possibilities.
Book Ticket €30
Much of my creative health work supports changes in perspectives, so staff can recognise people's intelligence, identity, sensitivity, humanity, humour and imagination - beyond survivalist behaviour, beyond cognitive changes, and beyond disability. This is fundamental to wellbeing.
Here, Jack Canfield, Award-Winning Speaker & Internationally Recognized Leader in Personal Development is holding one of my books 'A Creative Toolkit for Communication in Dementia Care'
Creative health is fundamental to healthcare now.
Where? Hospital, care homes, community, or at home
Who with? Older people, adults, children and families
What? Mental, emotional, physical and social wellbeing, family health, through life events to death and dying