Conversations with the Soul:
Learning the Tools of Self-Care, Resilience & Wellbeing
The role of expressive arts for stress-reduction and healing: An experience in music, art & movement.
Presented by the Integrative Psychiatry program and Integrative Medicine Collaborative
Moderator: Helen Lavretsky, MD, MS
Presenter: Ping Ho, MA, MPH - The Founder and Director of the UCLAArts&Healing Initiative
Ping Ho, MA, MPH is Founder and Director of Arts & Healing Initiative, a nonprofit organization that teaches members of the public how to use trauma-informed and culturally mindful arts practices to provide sustainable support in their own communities. Ping co-developed the program, Beat the Odds®: Social and Emotional Skill Building Delivered in a Framework of Drumming, and served as principal investigator of the UCLA study that documented its effectiveness, which was published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. She also developed the Certificate Program in Social Emotional Arts (SEA) and the SEA on a Shoestring program of supportive art, movement, music, and writing for individuals or groups in any setting. Ping is associate editor for the creative arts therapies section of the Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine. In addition, she is co-author of the National Parenting Products Award-winning book, The Innovative Parent: Raising Connected, Happy, Successful Kids through Art (Ohio University/Swallow Press, 2019).
