Introspective Spaces x BACII presents:

Creativity as Ritual: Supporting Healthcare Workers for Resilience and Sustainability

A virtual conversation focused on creativity as vital care for healthcare workers and for the communities they serve.

Event Details:

• Wednesday 4/29 from 12- 1 pm PST

• Virtual Webinar

• Register Below

Healthcare workers regularly witness grief, loss, and profound human vulnerability—yet the systems they work within often lack the rituals needed to process these experiences. In increasingly secular and fast-paced healthcare environments, meaningful spaces for reflection, integration, and renewal are often missing.

This webinar explores how creativity can function as a modern form of ritual, offering healthcare workers supportive tools for resilience, emotional processing, and long-term sustainability in their work.

Designed for healthcare professionals, end-of-life clinicians, oncology and palliative care clinicians, and anyone who supports people at the end of life — we will explore how creative practices can help restore meaning, connection, and care within demanding healthcare systems.

During this hour long webinar, we will:

• Explore the importance of ritual in caring professions

• Discuss the absence of ritual in modern healthcare environments

• Understand how creative practice can serve as an accessible ritual for processing emotional labor

• Engage in a guided creative reflection exercise

• Offer ways to stay connected and deepen this work beyond the webinar

This webinar invites participants to reconnect with creativity not as a luxury, but as a vital ritual of care—for themselves and for the communities they serve.

Sign up below to join us.

Our Facilitators

Mangda Sengvanhpheng

Mangda is an artist, death doula, and the founder of BACII, a platform that focuses on loss and grief while providing services and offerings for individuals, communities, and organizations that renew our engagement with life.

Mangda has seven years working in the end-of-life field along with over a decade of experience working in the creative and healing arts. Her life and death work is guided by her Lao last name, which means “the light of the full moon. Mangda’s work has been featured in VICE, Vogue, Architectural Digest, NY Mag’s Curbed, and more.

Anu Gorukanti, MD

Anu Gorukanti, MD is a pediatric hospitalist and public health advocate whose work sits at the intersection of health equity, racial justice, and physician wellbeing. She completed her medical training at Saint Louis University and her residency at Stanford University, where she deepened her commitment to building reflective communities within healthcare. Driven by the belief that contemplation and social justice are inseparable, she co-founded Introspective Spaces, a social enterprise/non-profit organization dedicated to creating healing and reflective communities for healthcare workers. Through this work, Anu champions a vision of healthcare reimagined through care, authenticity, and courageous action.