I really enjoyed speaker Ping Ho, Founding Executive Director of the Arts and Healing Initiative at UCLA. She believes offer accessible and universal tools for facilitating mind-body health and they are easy to implement in medical, educational, and recreational settings. Arts also has a therapeutic aspect that focuses on the process of expression and the self that is revealed through it. She compares art to a drug without any side effects. Studies have been done to show how art was able to reduce pain, depression, and anxiety. Ho carried out an activity at the end where we express stress on a blank sheet of paper, as an example of art as therapy.
Dr. Hanna Chusid was another speaker who is a psychologist and art therapist. She had the same ideas as Ping Ho, as she believes art and healing are very much connected.She uses storytelling, meditation, and sharing dreams as psychotherapy. Dr. Chusid and Ho's speeches relate to our art and medicine unit, as they believe in the use of art as a form of medicine for ailments.
I would definitely recommend LASERS because it was interesting and it covered a variety of other relations between art and the sciences. All of the speeches contributed more to my knowledge of just how influential and important art is, not just in sciences, but in the world.
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