HOPE conference: 2024 CATALYST

from the Arts & Healing Initiative

9:15-10AM: KEYNOTE SPEAKER STACIE AAMON YELDELL

Choose Yourself: Resiliency and Embodied Learning Through Self-Devotion 

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Found Voices: Art Exhibit, Poetry, Music

Join us where ART and SCIENCE collide with Art, Poetry & Music at the California NanoSystems Institute, UCLA Art/ Sci + Lab, Gallery, at UCLA CNSI, this coming Tuesday, May 20th, at 6.30-9.00 p.m.

The CNSI UCLA Art | Sci Center + Lab is dedicated to pursuing and promoting the evolving “Third Culture” by facilitating the infinite potential of collaborations between (media) arts and (bio/nano) sciences.

 The center’s affiliation with the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) offers access to cutting edge researchers and their laboratories and a dedicated gallery for exhibitions. The California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) is a research center at UCLA whose mission is to encourage university collaboration with industry and to enable the rapid commercialization of discoveries in nanosystems. CNSI members who are on the faculty at UCLA represent a multi-disciplinary team of some of the world’s preeminent scientists. The work conducted at the CNSI represents world-class expertise in four targeted areas of nanosystems-related research including Energy, Environment, Health-Medicine, and Information Technology.

                                                                                                                                                            CNSI NEW DIRECTIONS  are attached… Parking is $12, $5 w “disability” pass. There is meter parking on La Conte Ave. and parking at Ralphs on La Conte – if you decide to shop and/or risk it 🙂

Finding a Voice, UCLA Broad Art Center, May 6th

Finding a Voice to Silence the Crowd:

Health Through the Arts

Photo Art by Sandra Cheng

Tuesday, May 6^th, 7-8.30 pm at the UCLA 2100A Broad Art Center

Dave Leon, LCSW, Foundation Director of “The Painted Brain” and Jim McGrath, Director of the Imagination Workshop at UCLA Semel Institute, will discuss the work of Imagination Workshop & Painted Brain, both peer-driven creative arts programs for adults with mental health issues.

A 15-minute performance and a Q & A between a psychiatrist and program participant will follow.

Healing through the ARTS

“We heal by entertaining our psyche.” – Denise Maratos

 

Stopping Traffic

Join us on April 13th at 6.30 p.m. for a tour of Leigh McCloskey’s art discovering the Hieroglyph of the Human Soul and a performance by Mary Pat Gleason, as she explores her journey with health in STOPPING TRAFFIC

$20/ticket, use Pay Pal at 310.457.5398, call Carla McCloskey to RSVP, or the Wildflowers’ Movement at 951.638.WELL

at the OLANDAR FOUNDATION in Malibu, click here for directions

 

 

 

Embracing Myself

“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love.

When we are afraid,

we pull back from life.

When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.

We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create.

Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”

― John Lennon

 

BrainSnacks, by Karl Albrecht, Ph.D.

Fear seems to have gotten a bad rap amongst most human beings. And it’s not nearly as complicated as we try to make it.

A simple and useful definition of fear is: An anxious feeling, caused by our anticipation of some imagined event or experience.

Medical experts tell us that the anxious feeling we get when we’re afraid is a standardized biological reaction. It’s pretty much the same set of body signals, whether we’re afraid of getting bitten by a dog, getting turned down for a date, or getting our taxes audited.  more here