Connecting Arts, Health & Wellbeing: Healthcare Focus Group ( for practitioners)

Where are creativity and the arts showing up in healthcare across our region? What’s working, what’s missing, and where could stronger connections help?

Join MU Extension, the UMKC Conservatory, and ArtsKC for a conversation with healthcare practitioners, medical professionals, therapists, and others connecting healthcare with creativity and the arts.

Whether you use creative approaches in your practice, partner with artists, or are exploring what’s possible, we welcome your perspective.

Together, we’ll explore:

• How creativity and the arts are being used in healthcare and community wellbeing.

• Experiences and insights from your work.

• Barriers, gaps, and resources needed.

• Opportunities for collaboration across healthcare, the arts, and community organizations.

This focus group is part of a regional effort to map the people, programs, organizations, partnerships, and places connecting arts, health, and wellbeing. Your perspective will help inform that map and future conversations about funding, research, and regional planning.

Help us include your work
Please also take 10–15 minutes to complete our asset-mapping survey:

https://missouri.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bvo15nUJ06os1OC

Survey contact information will not be published or shared without your permission.

Questions?
Elena Stephenson: elenastephenson@missouri.edu
GK Callahan: callahang@missouri.edu

Please share this invitation with colleagues whose work should be represented.

Light breakfast refreshments will be provided.