Re-imagining hospitals as places of community building, creativity, and care through movement. Alison Waldman is a movement artist and wellness educator in healthcare spaces. She works with staff, patients, and caregivers to incorporate movement into their diagnoses and enhance community building and compassionate relationships between providers and patients. Alison is a Resident Artist at the Georgetown Lombardi Arts and Humanities Program at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C. where she leads onsite dance encounters, adaptive yoga and mindfulness sessions, and the award-winning Movement for Multiple Sclerosis (MS) dance class in collaboration with the Department of Neurology. As the Founder and Lead Facilitator of Available Wellness she helps providers and telehealth developers design the future of patient and staff care in their clinics. She works with faith communities and corporate offices where she bust myths of the wellness industry and promote organizational cultures of dance breaks, mindful communication, embodied study, and body positivity. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at [ Ссылка ]
