Healing Together:
A Creative Community for Clinicians
A 12-week creative community for clinicians · 4+ CEs · Open to all healthcare professional
Evolved from The Artist's Way for Healthcare Workers · Powered by Introspective Spaces
You became a healthcare professional to help others. Somewhere along the way, the system asked so much that you lost touch with your creativity, your sense of self — maybe even your why.
Healing Together is a 12-week community journey to rediscover that part of yourself — alongside others who truly understand. Inspired by Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way and other creative voices, built for the specific realities of clinical life.
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“Success occurs in clusters”
-The Artist’s Way
We seek to create communities of care where healthcare workers and mental health professionals can lean on one another, share difficult scenarios, and receive support from those who understand outside of our healthcare institutions.
MD Participant
“During our 12 weeks together, surrounded by compassionate colleagues who share a similar vision, I've found renewal. Together, we peeled back the layers of institutional expectations, rediscovered our authentic selves, and prioritized our well-being. This is not selfish—it is necessary. By tending to our own wholeness, we become more present, more empathetic, more effective caregivers.”
Nurse Participant
“When I first became a nurse, I had this hope and vision of finding a community of healthcare workers that I could reflect with on the spiritual meaning of our shared work. I had forgotten about this dream until recently when it occurred to me that it has been realized in all of you!”
Meet Our Facilitators
Name: Trina Bolfing
Pronouns: she/her
Healthcare Role: Relationship & mental health therapist
AW Group: Austin, San Antonio, & Dallas/Fort Worth
Date/Time: Wednesdays, Noon CST
What is your favorite creative practice? Trying to live my life more creatively in all of the most mundane ways, plus watercolor & handlettering
What Creativity Means to Me: Creativity is a manner of being for me, so it's a way of looking at the world and trying to see it with fresh eyes wherever possible. It's an effort at suffusing life with beauty, with or without traditionally creative means.
Name: Rebecca Crane-Okada, PhD, RN, CNS, AOCN
Pronouns: she/her
Healthcare Role: Oncology Clinical Nurse
Specialist/Program Manager
AW Group: LA
Date/Time: Mondays, 7 pm PST
What is your favorite creative practice? Depends on the moment! There are so many……letter writing, gardening, baking, collage, knitting to name a few.
What Creativity Means to Me: Creativity is allowing myself to flow, to be absorbed in the moment and fully present to what emerges from within.
Name: Amna
Pronouns:
Healthcare Role: Pediatrician and Clinical Instructor
AW Group: National
Date/Time: Tuesdays 12 pm PST
What is your favorite creative practice?
What Creativity Means to Me: When she's not caring for patients or teaching residents, you'll find Amna lost in a good book, seeking solace in nature's quiet spaces, experimenting with new recipes in her kitchen, or exploring the world with her family—all pursuits that remind her that a full life makes for a fuller, more compassionate physician.
Name: Christina Dimopoulos-Verma
Pronouns: she/her
Healthcare Role: Gastroenterology & Hepatology Fellow
AW Group: Peninsula / Bay Area
Date/Time: Thursdays, 7 pm PST
What is your favorite creative practice? Writing! I majored in poetry but also enjoy creative non-fiction and fiction.
What Creativity Means to Me: To me, creativity means giving myself permission to explore different forms of artistic expression. I'm working on focusing on how the process feels rather than emphasizing the end product.
Name: Aarti Bansal
Pronouns: she/her
Healthcare Role: RN
AW Group: Sacramento
Date/Time: Tuesdays, 8 pm PST
What is your favorite creative practice? Photography is a commonly/well defined muscle for me- but faaavorite though? that would be something with my hands- coloring/pottery and/or movement related like yoga or dancing.
What Creativity Means to Me: Creativity is a playful way of interacting with the world. It's like a muscle you build staying open and curious in all aspects of life.
Name: Annmarie Ware, RRT- NPS
Pronouns: she/her
Healthcare Role: Respiratory Therapist
AW Group: Atlanta
Date/Time: Wednesdays 7 pm EST
What is your favorite creative practice? sleeping in after my 3 shifts. I’ve had some amazing dreams.
What Creativity Means to Me: Creativity to me means being bold and living out loud. I used to hide my gifts because I thought people would not accept me. But they did, when I started sharing my ideas. And now I’m at the point where I don’t need acceptance. I was born amazing and I shine no matter where I am.
Name: Kim Chow
Pronouns: She/her
Healthcare Role: Nurse practitioner / co-founder
AW Group: National
Date/Time: Wednesdays 12 pm PST
What is your favorite creative practice? Cooking, sewing/crafting
What Creativity Means to Me: For me, creativity is about connection to myself, to the people I love, and to community. As healthcare professionals, we’re trained to lead with scientific, measurable thinking, often leaving little space to explore what we feel beneath it all. Through The Artist’s Way, I experienced what happens when that analytical mindset softens and creativity takes the lead: deeper connection, reflection, and a sense of safety within a supportive group. After completing the 12-week journey this fall with Introspective Spaces, I’m excited to facilitate the next cohort and hold space for healthcare professionals to explore our creativity together.
Name: Megan Kamath
Pronouns: She/Hers
Healthcare Role: Physician- Advanced Heart Failure Cardiologist
AW Group: Parents’ Group Co-Host
Date/Time: Monthly, TBD
What is your favorite creative practice? Cooking/Watercolors/Poetry
What Creativity Means to Me:
Creativity is allowing myself to try new things, dive in deeply and not be afraid to get messy in the process!
Name: Anna Looney
Pronouns: she/her
Healthcare Role: Certified Mind Body Medicine Facilitator Sociologist, retired
AW Group: National Group
Date/Time: Tuesdays, 5 pm PST
What is your favorite creative practice? It’s hard to choose just one: I love watercolor and also do mixed media collage
What Creativity Means to Me: I find such release, joy and happiness when I engage in creative play, especially in the company of other people! I also consider cooking a creative outlet since I’m excited to try new things and show my love through making delicious healthy food for family and friends.
Name: Chime
Pronouns: She/her
Healthcare Role: EMT instructor/ FamMed Residency applicant
AW Group: East Coast
Date/Time: Fridays, 5:30 pm EST
What is your favorite creative practice? Currently, I’m enjoying watercolor card-making as a way to create meaningful gifts for my friends and family, and I’m excited to explore acrylic banner art as well.
What Creativity Means to Me: Creativity grounds me and lets me breathe amid life’s constant motion.
Name: Chandra
Pronouns: she/they
Healthcare Role: Clinical Therapist
AW Group: Chicago
Date/Time: TBD
What is your favorite creative practice? collaging & writing poetry
What Creativity Means to Me: divine expression through human form; something that naturally flows and expands as we dissolve fear & standards of perfection
Name: Dr. Arunima Brown
Pronouns: she/her
Healthcare Role: Physician
AW Group: Parents’ Group Co-Host
Date/Time: Monthly, TBD
What is your favorite creative practice? singing and expressive dancing
What Creativity Means to Me: Creativity is the antidote to the structured, cerebral aspects of working in medicine. It allows to return to our own humanity, connect with one another and build community based on mutual values and artistic interests.
“Artist's Way allowed me to wrestle with imperfection, vulnerability, and trust in cmmunity. It gave me a brave space or brave spaces to play and share about how that creative play settles me. It also affirmed a process for building capacity in creativity which I think is essential for everyone, but especially those in service to others”
- Jennie, Nurse Practitioner
About our name
For the past four cohorts, this program was known as The Artist's Way for Healthcare Workers. As our community has grown — to over 200 clinicians across the country — we've evolved our name to better reflect who we are and where we're going.
Healing Together: A Creative Community for Clinicians names what this program has always been at its heart: a space for healing, held in community, built specifically for people who spend their lives caring for others.
The journey itself hasn't changed. We still draw from Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way alongside Emergent Strategy and The Art of Gathering. Your weekly pod, your creative practice, your CE credits, your facilitators — all still here. The name is new. The community is yours.
Contact Us
Do you have a question about the Artist’s Way for Healthcare Workers? We’d love to hear from you and provide any information you need!
Reach out to our team anytime at: hello@introspectivespaces.com