Creativity, Connection and Health Using the Arts to Enable Healthier Communities

This talk will explores the use of creative arts expression as a structured population health intervention to address loneliness and social isolation and their negative health impacts. Arts activities are easy to deploy in a variety of community-based settings and readily combinable with other evidence-based modalities like mindfulness and social-emotional learning to offer effective, scalable and sustainable programming opportunities that foster authentic connections, accelerate frequency of pro-health behaviors, increase resilience and endurance, and improve quality of life.