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The Caring Encounter : Art as a Way of Caring
  • Mary Rockwood Lane, R.N., PhD
  • College of Nursing
  • Center of Spirituality in Healthcare
  • University of Florida


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Dedication
Christianne Corbat
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The authentic
expression of the self.
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 The Offering


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Art As A  Way Of Healing
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Art as a way of caring :
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Jean Watson’s Theory of Human Caring
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In essence
  • Jean Watson’s  model provided the framework to integrate artists into the healthcare system
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The Caring moment
  • A caring moment occurs whenever artists and patients come together
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Art activities create caring moments
  • .
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"The actual caring moment has..."
  • The actual caring moment has energy and power of its own.


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The power of
presence, witness and something more.
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Realize love
  • transform the environment into a place where love, compassion, and spiritual expression is realized.
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Carative Factors
  • working with loving kindness.
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Carative Factors
  • responding to patients as a whole person
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Carative Factors
  • being very respectful of patients individual spiritual beliefs and practices
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Carative Factors
  • honoring the patients authentic voice and  faith, and helping instill hope, and respect in the patients own belief system as part of care
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Carative Factors
  • solving unexpected problems. .......


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Carative Factors

  • Creating healing environments that recognize the connection between body, mind, and spirit
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Carative Factors
  • creating an environment which helps healing physically and spiritually.
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Carative Factors
  • encouraging patients to practice their own individual life expression as part of self-caring and healing
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Carative Factors
  • support patients  in the belief in miracles



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Carative Factors
  • encouraging patients  to speak honestly about feelings, no matter what feelings are
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Carative Factors
  • establishing a helping-trusting relationship with the artist / caregiver during the encounter


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The healing moment
  • The whole caring-healing-loving consciousness is contained within a single caring healing moment in the artist patient meeting
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The caring encounter
  • The caring encounter is healing: the artist creates it and the patient takes it into their own life..


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Techniques

  • The ethics of Face
  • Turning towards the gaze of another
  • The power of witness


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Connections
  • The caring artist and the patient being cared for are deeply interconnected;
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Time and Space
  • The art as a way of  caring is “relational and connected; it transcends time, space, and physicality”. It creates a caring encounter which allows for an experience of transcendence and transformation that is fundamentally healing.
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Inside busyness are caring encounters

  • This is what feeds our souls
  • See ways of being in love with what you do
  • Be in love with patients in gratitude
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The Pause
  • Hands touch- gesture, a moment, pause
  • Illuminate caring encounters that let us be fulfilled
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Gratefulness and feeling the blessings
  • Each patient brings you an opportunity to give of yourself
  • Be in service in a most sacred and precious way




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Bring joy back into our practice

  • We can do this with our hearts open with the experience of love
  • One way to reclaim ourselves is to love ourselves


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Move into the creative process with positivity and love
  • Bring your creative muse into your role as a caring-artist healer.
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Illumuninating the feminine
  • Caring
  • Being present
  • Beauty
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The feminine healing spirit
  • Includes nature within healing practice
  • Brings in the divine feminine  energy
  • Brings in the art of mothering
  • Is  loving and caring



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Use voices as instruments for healing
  • Use the vibratory quality of your own voice
  • Use voice as sentiments of music: soothing soft, whisper, reassuring.
  • We can use our voice as pure vibration: that allows voice to become a trigger to center in center of body in stressful situation..
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Use movement as instruments for healing
  • You can use your body in the graceful movements of dancer
  • Move in and out of rooms with gestures of grace and  rhythm
  • The beauty way of being in the world as dance within movement of practice.
  • Dance while moving patients, getting out of bed yielding and dancing allow to be lead and allow us to lead- a reciprocal movement part of and within the practice of the nurse
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Use theatre as instruments for healing
  • The gesture- a theatrical piece- it’s a performance
  • Witnesses observe- perform the story.
  • Simply gesture of kindness, touch on shoulder- warm hug greeting.
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Transforming environments
  • Being able to create a sanctuary in the environment in which you practice
  • Transforming the environment to one in which you are in balance and at home.
  • Physicians and Nurses spend a large percent of life in hospitals, it is necessary to reclaim these environments to make them beautiful healthy and health enhancing
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Take note
  • There is a human in a situation in front of us -take note of how a tear flows down a cheek look at how the hand reaches out as you reach out
  • you can notice and see these encounters of incredible beauty
  • As we pause and reflect on them- we cultivate a way of being in them more deeply and more fully


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Call to artists

  • Welcome
  • Flow into hospital
  • Artist/healer
  • Everyone is an artist
  • Creative Healing
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Spirit Body Healing
  • A phenomenological hermeneutic study of the lived experience of art in healing




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Themes
Of Spirit Body Healing
  • 1. pain and darkness
    2. going elsewhere
    3. being creative in a turning point
    4. slipping through the veil
    5. knowing the truth and trusting the process
    6. embodying spirit
    7. feeling healing energy and compassion
    8. transcendence


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Art is Spiritual Caring
  • art is an opportunity for spiritual caring to take place.
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Quatrains
  • Don't let your throat tighten
    with fear. Take sips of breath
    all day and night. Before death
    closes your mouth.
     
    There's no love in me without your being,
    no breath without that. I once thought 
    I could give up this longing, then though again,
    But I couldn't continue being human.
     Rumi - Coleman Barks
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Bibliography
  • Bibliography
  • Watson, J. (2005). Caring science as sacred science. Philadelphia: F. A. Davis. (AJN Book of the Year Award 2005).
  • Samuels, M, Lane, M. (1998) Creative Healing.  San Francisco: Harper San Francisco.
  • Spirit Body Healing, Samuels, M, Lane, M, Wiley & Sons, New York, 2001
  • Shaman Wisdom, Shaman, Healing, Wiley & Sons, New York, 2003
  • Lane, M.R. ( 2006) Arts in health care: a new paradigm for holistic nursing practice.
  • J Holist Nurs. Mar;24(1):70-5.
  • Lane, M.R. (2005) Spirit body healing--a hermeneutic, phenomenological study examining the lived experience of art and healing., Cancer Nurs. Jul-Aug;28(4):285-91.
  • Lane, M.R. (2005) Creativity and spirituality in nursing: implementing art in healing.
  • Holist Nurs Pract. May-Jun;19(3):122-5. Review.
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