This year’s theme is “Activating Kindness”
Is kindness be vital in unkind times? What is the value of kindness? How do neurologists and psychologists understand kindness? What motivates people to acts of kindness? Where does kindness interact with creativity and healthcare?
Is kindness our secret weapon?
A week of curiosity to stimulate Creative Brains.
After nine Creative Brain Weeks, including three in Dublin and six internationally, we took a brief pause to digest what we are learning. But we’re back. This, the 4th Creative Brain Week in Dublin, has moved to a new timeslot in June.
We continue to programme with these three principles in mind:
- No Tell Without A Show, No Show Without A Tell
- Nothing About Us Without Us
- Each One Teach One
Theme of Tuesday 10th June is Activating Kindness
“Activating Kindness” begins with neurological and psychological underpinnings, then ladders up to demonstrate the practice of Activating Kindness in context.
Tickets are free but capacity is limited. To ensure your place, please book here
9.45am - 10.15am - The Neuroscience of Activating Kindness
What do neuroscientists consider when they think about Activating Kindness?
A whistle stop casual conversation jumping from neural transmitters to transgressive activity, from chemical changes in the Locus Aurelius to empathy circuitry, to the behaviourism of in and out groups, Creative Brain Week brings the best of current understanding and neural engineering to ask why do people,
- Expend energy to help others?
- Walk themselves into danger through Kindness?
- Can you activate kindness?
10.30am to 11.30am - The need to kindness in unkind zones - How environments compound issues connected with brain health
Human beings are sense making beings. Affected by words and the weather, being listened to or ignored, by a sense of belonging or stigmatising behaviour. Over time what we sense may evolve into illness.
Expert speakers reflect on a range of Brain Health impacting issues.
Suggesting approaches to Healthcare rooted in kindness?
11.45am to 1pm - The value of activating kindness
Where is the academic evidence for kindness?
What type of strategies does it suggest?
Hear about the unique impact of culture and creativity
2pm to 3.15pm - Kindness in Action
World leading intelligence share extraordinary creative initiatives to transform healthcare.
3.30pm to 4.30pm - Problem solving in process, making and measuring knowledge
"In my experience the person paid the most, is the one taken the most seriously" Linda Doyle
Claire Howlin joined by Barry McMahon and Ann Quinn Head of Innovation at Children’s Health Ireland, Noelle McAlinden leader of NI Mental Health Arts Festival, and Sara Boyce and Lisa Morrison of New Script for Mental Health to explore kindness as an activator of creativity in health care.
4.45pm to 5.45pm - Introduction to Threads - Examining how we can activate kindness in different spheres
An introduction to Creative Brain Week’s “Threads”
Nine Creative Brain Weeks in six countries in three years generated community, conversation, content and complexity. Tuesday’s final session brings reflections on these developing Threads, that will be explored in depth for the remainder of this week.
Acknowledgements:
Creative Brain Week is a Global Brain Health Institute innovation at Trinity College Dublin, presented in association with Creative Aging International. We would also like to thank Harry Hartford, Trinity alumnus and President, Causeway Capital Management LLC for his continued support.
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