I help systems create cultures of COURAGEOUS CARE. Through the arts, movement and play, I help teams feel seen, heard, and cared for — reminding them of the brilliant, resilient, and creative humans they already are.

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The DANCE of COURAGEOUS CARE: An invitation to soften and receive together to experience healing and joy.

Join nurse, dancer, and creative joy incitor, Tara Rynders as she invites you into an innovative and interactive experience of Courageous Care. Drawing from her experiences as a nurse for over 20 years and her background in dance and somatic practices, Tara harnesses her passion for softening and receiving to collectively honor our shared humanity by creating spaces of healing and joy. This presentation is an immersive opportunity to connect with oneself and each other to collectively reimagine a more caring and joyful future together.

 GET INSPIRED , TO START CARING FOR YOURSELF AS YOU CARE FOR OTHERS.

After an hour with TARA, your audience will have the tools they need to:

Identify a new personal definition of resiliency that creates healing and joy

Recognize the 5 steps of Courageous Care and the healing impact this has on joy and belonging in the workplace

Indicate the importance of connecting to our joy and the outcomes this has on ourselves, colleagues, and patients

Utilize the arts to create holistic and systemic spaces of wellbeing

  • "I really loved the idea of playing without purpose, in the academy we hardly play, we do serious work, we are very cognitive, very rational, put a lot of energy in doing all kind of analysis. So playing without a purpose it helped create a bond and sense of belonging with people. You don't have to be a dancer or a mover because there are a lot of expressions like writing, drawing, doing some movements together. Healthcare professionals put a lot of energy and compassion into their work for patients but self compassion and self care is very limited, someone today said how difficult it is to ask for care, to receive care. But if we don't have self compassion we cant be compassionate about our patients. "

    Prof. dr. Tineke A. Abma

    Executive Director Leyden Academy on Vitality and Aging

    Netherlands

  • "Tara was a wonderful presenter. She is a very special person with a gift that needs to be shared widely. You don't find people like her everywhere and we were blessed to be able to share that time with her."

    PARTICIPANT COLORADO BUSINESS FOR THE ARTS

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Tara Rynders RN, MFA, BSN, BA, has been a nurse for over 20 years and is the founder of The Clinic, an arts and play-based theater company that provides workshops and research around burnout and secondary traumatic stress.  Rynders has an MFA in Dance and is an Advanced Grief Recovery Specialist. She is honored to hold the 2022 EY Next Wave Leader Award, 2021 Oncology Nursing Foundation Lectureship, 2019 Colorado Regional Nightingale Luminary, and the 2019 National Organization for the Arts in Health Award for Arts in Resiliency. Rynders most recently returned from a Fulbright in the Netherlands conducting research and sharing best practices around arts-based interventions around wellness and resilience and her most recent publication can be viewed in the July 2022 issue of the AMA Journal of Ethics, Arts-Based Research in Health Care “How the Arts Help Us Hold Grief and Maintain Collective Care”

She is grateful to be here with you today as she shares her mission to help nurses remember the brilliant and resilient humans we already are.