Arts Practica offers:

  1. Workshops
  2. Public Speaking
  3. Consulting
  4. Coaching

1. WORKSHOPS

Consistently rated as “clinically relevant” and “enjoyable” by hundreds of medical learners over the better part of two decades.

Topics include:

  • Observation and inquiry practices
  • Resilience
  • Team communication
  • Managing clinical uncertainty
  • The discipline of strategic thinking
  • Visual Thinking Strategies and applying it to medical learning

In immersive arts experiences, participants collide with their own strengths and limitations in a safe environment, look with new eyes, see as others see, experience group dynamics in real time, reflect upon human nature and pearls of medical wisdom, revisit key principles of patient safety, and even have fun.

All workshops feature: 

  • Design customized for busy healthcare professionals (arts skeptics welcome)
  • Guided experiences with art
  • Critical reflection, coaching, and feedback in a supportive environment
  • Clinical didactics and case discussions, co-taught by our faculty or yours
  • Pedagogically grounded in the learning sciences, including Visual Thinking Strategies coaching and facilitation
  • Sited at a fitting arts venue, or in classroom spaces
  • Scalable, in partnership with art museum education staff
  • Generally approved for CME, CNE, and CE

Tailored to address the following audiences:

  • Leaders in healthcare
  • Medical teachers
  • Active caregivers
  • Inter-professional teams
  • Bioethicists
  • Arts leaders
  • Arts educators
  • Funders

 

2. SPEAKING:   

Miller speaks frequently in public-facing events and in Grand Rounds formats (sample here). Site visits often mix a Grand Rounds or interactive community session with workshops and meetings.

3. CONSULTING:

Arts Practica provides consulting on program development and collaborations between medical schools and art museums. (Here’s a nice case . Here’s another nice case. Ooh and one more case. I have the coolest clients.) 

4. COACHING: 2 Types

  • Visual Thinking Strategies coaching: Up-level your VTS teaching and learn specific strategies and facilitation moves for optimum relevance to medical teaching and practice. Can be done on-site or remotely/video. 
  • Individual coaching: A confidential process, Miller will partner with you over a set period of time as you move forward in your goals. Clients have used Arts Practica coaching to: develop new courses and programs, inspire research teams, gain confidence and strategy in presenting arts learning to audiences in the biomedical sciences, and for career development.

Contact us to get started.