International Health Humanities Network Membership

I am interested in the value of meaning-making through drawing and creative practices and its intersection with learning or knowing in adults, especially in a group setting. I trained as a medical doctor and am an experienced lecturer in Health Professional Education. For my Ph.D. I designed a project that utilised expressive drawing to explore participants' perceptions of ageing. The groups comprised health professional students and people over 60. Drawing was a powerful non-dominant way of knowing that helped participants explore connections between their inner and outer world. They realised several myths of ageing had unthinkingly been internalised from their culture. They were then able to re-frame these individually. I am also a painter and origami artist.