August 15, 2026 | Agenda & Theme
We invite you to join us monthly for a chance to return to your Caritas Community to share and reconnect.
The Creative Emergence of the Artist-Healer
Presenter: Mary Rockwood Lane, PhD, RN, FAAN
Creativity is not separate from caritas practice. It is a powerful way of knowing, connecting, healing, and becoming more fully present to ourselves and to those in our care.
Within everyone lives an artist and a healer—the part of us that imagines, creates, listens deeply, witnesses suffering, and gives form to experiences that may be difficult to express in words.
Grounded in Watson Caring Science, this workshop invites participants to reconnect with their innate creativity and awaken the artist-healer within. Through reflection, storytelling, shared presence, and a gentle creative experience, participants will explore how artistic expression can support personal renewal, professional well-being, healing relationships, and Caritas Consciousness.
Together, we will explore:
- Creativity as a way of knowing in Caritas Healing
- The artist, and healer as One
- The relationship between artistic expression, Caring Science, and healing
- Simple creative practices that support reflection, renewal, and connection
- Ways to bring beauty, imagination, and the arts into nursing practice
No artistic experience is needed—only curiosity, openness, and a willingness to explore.
About the Facilitator
Mary Rockwood Lane, PhD, RN, FAAN, is a nurse artist, Caring Science scholar, author, educator, and founding faculty member of the Caritas Coach Education Program at the Watson Caring Science Institute.
She is a co-founder of the University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine, founder of the Nurse Artist Gallery, and co-founder of The Nursing Way, a global platform dedicated to nurses supporting nurses through creativity, community, mindfulness, Caring Science, and healing practices.
Mary’s lifelong work invites nurses to reclaim themselves as creative beings, artists, storytellers, witnesses, and healers.
Come remember: Everyone is an artist. Everyone is a healer
Schedule
Free. Available to all. Every 3rd Saturday of the month. One hour.
~ 8am Pacific (California Time)
~ 9am Mountain
~ 10am Central
~ 11am Eastern (Miami Time)
Zoom Link: watsoncaringscience.org/CHC
2026 Dates
- Aug 15, 2026
- Sept 19, 2026
- Oct 17, 2026
- Nov 21, 2026
- Dec 19, 2026
Mission
To create a sacred and safe space for the Caring Science community to share healing modalities (i.e. Caritas moments, healing poems, meditation, yoga, music, etc.), and connect with one another.
Goals
- Hold a monthly 1 hour zoom session with a set structure
- Allow for 10-15 minutes of open sharing at the end
- Have a group of moderators to organize and facilitate each session (rotate)
- Assign 1 moderator per session/set a schedule for 6 months
Structure of Each Session
- Opening reflection, calling us to the space in stillness and presence (by moderator/facilitator)
- Offer space for a maximum of 3 healing, sharing moments of 5-10 minutes each
- Open sharing time around 10-15 minutes
- Closing (5 minutes)
Disclaimer
- Caritas Healing Connection sessions are not an alternative for professional therapy or training.
- We celebrate each other but this is not a space to showcase professional achievements.
Participation Request
To put your name forward to offer either a modality/reading or to facilitate please contact us info@watsoncaringscience.org.
Thank you!
Facilitated for WCSI by:
Carole Bergin, Retired RN, CHTP/I, Catechist of the Good Shepherd. Co-teach Healing Touch Classes for nurses, provide Healing Touch sessions for cancer survivors, teach Children's Liturgy, act as a hospital Eucharistic Minister, and visit a local retirement community for prayer circle.
Patti O’Rourke, MSN, RN, LMBT, BC, CCRN, CHPN, HN-BC, HWNC-BC, NBC-HWC, RM: She is a passionate lifelong learner with an impressive 60-year career in nursing and counting! 😊 She is a joyologist, nurse healer, educator, mentor, and coach.
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Contact info@watsoncaringscience.org.
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