Inciting Joy through Movement, Play, and the Arts

Tara Rynders, RN, MFA, BSN, BA ,“the dancing nurse” is a speaker, storyteller, researcher, and a dancer.  Tara has been a registered nurse for over twenty years and received her Master’s in Fine Arts in Dance and Somatic Practices in 2011 from The University of Colorado at Boulder.

Tara, an Advanced Certified Grief Recovery Specialist, is the founder and artistic director of The Clinic, an arts and health based company that provides workshops and research around burnout and secondary traumatic stress.

Tara has had the pleasure of caring for patients, families, nurses, healthcare providers, and humans for over 20 years. Tara has focused her career on improving outcomes through organizing and facilitating creative, safe spaces for wellness, resiliency, relationship building and leadership training for healthcare providers and other leaders. She is passionate about eliminating health inequities, improving systemic resiliency, professional development, group cohesion, de-escalation of horizontal workplace violence, research, and evidence-based care.

She is extremely honored to have been named, A Blade of Grass Fellow, a three time Arts in Society grantee, a 2019 Colorado Nightingale Luminary, the recipient of Rose Medical Center’s Excellence in Nursing Award in Compassionate Care, a Hamilton Awardee in Arts & Resiliency from the National Organization for Arts in Health (NOAH). She received the 2022 EY Next Wave Leader Award from the Colorado Business Committee for the Arts and a Fulbright Specialist where she recently returned from Amsterdam finishing up her research in arts, health, and resiliency. She has been published in the AMA Journal of Ethics (2022) and American Journal of Medical Quality (2022).

Join nurse, dancer, and creative caregiver Tara Rynders, as she guides you through an interactive, multimedia experience of the art and science of caring for yourself and others.

Fun fact: Tara is a mother to 8 year twins who keep her heart soft and curiosity wild.

Most Popular Keynotes — In Person or Virtual

Courageous Care: Inciting Joy and Belonging Through the Revolutionary Power of Caring for Oneself and One Another

Join nurse, dancer, and creative joy inciter Tara Rynders as she invites you into an innovative and interactive experience of Courageous Care. Drawing from her experience of being a nurse for over 25 years, 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 one another to collectively reimagine a more joyful future together.

From Burnt Out To Brilliant: The Art and Science of Belonging

We entered into our profession as nurses because we care, we want to make a difference, we want to change and heal lives. Yet, what do we do when most days we go home exhausted and overwhelmed, feeling like no matter what we give, it is never enough. Tara Rynders has been a nurse for over 25 years and has seen even the best nurses burnout under this pressure.

As a nurse researcher on burnout, compassion fatigue, and secondary traumatic stress, Tara wants to offer you another way to help you strategically disengage from the burnout and find belonging. Through the C.A.R.E framework Tara will guide you on how to experience and create belonging, transforming burnout to brilliance, overwhelm to optimism and busyness into belonging for yourself and others.  Join Tara in an interactive experience that leaves you equipped and inspired to continue to care for yourself, your colleagues, and your patients. Join Tara as we create lasting joy– remembering together– what it feels like to stop burnout and start remembering our brilliant and resilient selves.

Objectives

1. Create a new and authentic personal definition of resiliency

2. Understand the science behind belonging and its ability to prevent and undo burnout

3. Create connection and belonging, in the moment, through interactive experiences with colleagues, that are sprinkled throughout the keynote.

4. Understand and integrate the C.A.R.E. framework to infuse systems already in place with belonging and care.

5. Understand and integrate the H.O.L.D. framework when working with hard to hold people.

6. Take away three ways that you can immediately implement creative modalities in the workplace to cultivate connection and belonging with colleagues and patients.

Redefining Resiliency: Creating healthcare and education systems of joy and belonging by rediscovering our inherent (Re)brilliant and resilient selves

Join nurse, dancer, and creative joy incitor Tara Rynders as she invites you into an innovative and interactive experience of reflection, joy, and self-compassion. Drawing from her experience creating theatrical performances in hospital settings and intimate play-based workshops for nurses, Rynders harnesses her passion for nursing and the arts to collectively honor our shared humanity through care, curiosity, and creativity. This presentation is an immersive opportunity to redefine resiliency and reflect and honor the brilliant and resilient human beings we already are.

Presentation Objectives:

1. Understand the benefits to leaders that come from connecting to their own joy
2. Utilizing the arts to bolster holistic and systemic health.
3. Identify new personal definitions of resilience and rebrilliance.
4. Reflect on what they need to feel seen, heard and cared for within their community.
5. Demonstrate how to set boundaries and care for oneself while de-escalating patients and colleagues.

WORKSHOPS

(Re)Brilliancy Workshop In Person or Virtual — 2,4,or 8 hours

The Clinic (Re)Brilliancy Workshop offers sacred time and creative space to feel seen, heard and cared for through thoughtful arts and play-based exercises.  Led by providers and nurses, trained in peer response, our skilled facilitators gently guide participants through movement, drawing, music, journaling, and storytelling.  Inciting joy and playful restoration, our workshops honor the inherent creativity and resiliency in all of us creating intentional space to reflect, feel, process and integrate both our joy and our grief. Ultimately our participants leave feeling seen, renewed, held and acknowledged.  We look forward to spending time with you and your teams and are grateful for your trust as we create brave spaces and soft landings.

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