Reframing Care
Creative Aging
Reframing Care: Mindfulness + Art at The Phillips Collection offers resources, support, and artful engagement for care partners and their loved ones living with memory loss.
For this series, we will gather with food and conversation, sharing experiences and resources, and connecting wellness with art. Through arts engagement—conversation, storytelling, improvisational play, art-making, and guided meditation—we will reimagine our relationship to dementia in positive, hopeful, and practical ways.
The Phillips Collection is grateful to the Dosal Family Foundation for funding Reframing Care: Mindfulness + Art
May 2024 Program
Mary Fridley presents an interactive workshop The Joy of Dementia (You Gotta Be Kidding!), designed for those interested in building a new and more positive relationship to dementia. Learn how to create environments in which care partners and people living with dementia are supported to take risks and grow. Use dementia diagnosis as a starting point for creativity, hope, and even joy. Learn to use improvisational play, creative exercises, and philosophical/performed conversation as tools for navigating the dementia experience and life itself.
Mary Fridley is a faculty member of the East Side Institute in NYC, co-creator and leader of The Joy of Dementia (You Gotta Be Kidding!), and coordinator of Reimaging Dementia: A Creative Coalition for Justice.
