Healing Arts is a global campaign by the Jameel Arts & Health Lab in collaboration with the World Health Organization
Healing Arts
Explore the full programme of events; from performances, exhibitions to interactive public art, hands-on workshops, and thought-provoking symposia and policy panels.
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October 25, 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Royal Monastery of Santa Maria de Pedralbes
The training session "Hundreds of Years in One Morning" explores artistic methodologies based on words, drawing, and movement to connect with time and the stories of the monastery, then apply them to educational and social practice. It is part of the Educa con el Art 25/26 course, an Apropa Cultura initiative.
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October 25, 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
La Barraca Space, Las Sierras, San Martín de Llémena, Girona, 17153, Spain
An invitation to creatively immerse ourselves in nature to broaden and deepen our perspective and relationship with ourselves and nature. It is an experiential approach that seeks to explore, through meditative, appreciative, and creative approaches, what we are: what defines us (relief), the place we occupy (volume), the substance of which we are made (matter), and how we relate to the environment in which we live (interrelationship).
Saturday 25 October
Museu d'Art Nacional de Catalunya
The Orchestra de la Bona Sort and the dance performance "M’[əβítə] un crit" by the company Move in Vein land at MNAC as part of the Altre International Festival of Performing Arts and Mental Health, a meeting space between the performing arts and mental health that highlights the role of the arts as a driver of transformation and collective reflection.
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Friday 25 October & Saturday 25 October 16:00 - 18:00
Baroque hermitage of Sant Miquel de la Tosca, El Vilosell
The Respira Serra de la Llena program draws inspiration from the principles of healthogenesis and the healing arts, fostering holistic well-being through a deep connection with nature, conscious movement, and sensory expression. Set in the heart of the Prades Mountains, this experience combines forest bathing, qigong, and mindfulness to support emotional regulation, full presence, and personal transformation—backed by scientific evidence on the benefits of nature for physical, mental, and social health. Framed within the healing arts approach, the program emphasizes culture as a tool for health and integrates sustainability, inclusion, and empowerment as core values. Throughout the activities, participants are guided using the language of psychological intervention in natural settings—presence, emotional regulation, sense of coherence, self-regulation, coping, and body awareness—ensuring a healthy and transformative experience. This program takes place in a rich cultural, community, and spiritual setting (aplecs) in Sant Miquel de la Tosca, El Vilosell, Lleida.
October 25, 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM
Tierra Museum, L'Espluga de Francolí
Rompe(en)di(n)s. Artes y cuidado is an opportunity to create a space for (self-)care for people who have dedicated themselves, are dedicated, or will dedicate themselves to caring, whether family or professional, for people in situations of vulnerability or dependency, whether temporary or permanent. The idea of community support as a self-care practice is what governs the Rompe(en)di(n)s. Artes y cuidado workshop. The general objective of the proposal is the co-creation of a community action, articulated around artistic expressions linked to everyday life.
Museu de la Mediterrània, Torroella de Montgrí
In this workshop, we will provide an introduction to Art Therapy. First, we will briefly explain what it entails and its current applications in our region. Next, participants will have time for experiential exploration through a proposed activity. Finally, we will open a space for sharing and learning more. Art Therapy offers emotional support and guidance while also engaging the individual in a creative process that allows them to work through personal experiences and integrate them emotionally. This is achieved through a wide range of expressive modalities—movement, music, voice, visual arts, creative writing, and more—which enable participants to externalize their experiences, give them form, and relate to them from a broader and healthier perspective. This activity is part of the Museums: Spaces of Well-Being project, developed by six museums and the five primary health areas of the Baix Empordà region. The initiative was born from the desire to highlight museums as spaces that contribute to the health and well-being of the population, while raising awareness about the importance of taking care of our emotional well-being. www.museudelamediterrania.cat
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October 25, 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Start of the route: Aldi parking in Vic
A 6.4 km walking route between Vic and Folgueroles will include a mindfulness experience and forest bathing at the Bruguer Bridge. At various points along the route, readings of Verdaguer's poems will be held, and participants will be given earth and clay spheres containing rosemary, lavender, and thyme seeds, linked to the poems being read. Documentation related to the medicinal properties of these plants will also be provided.
October 25, from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Dance Area, Barcelona
The Institut Poiesis invites you to participate in this introductory capsule, a space where the body, dance, and silence intertwine as paths of research and creation. A proposal to explore the practice of authentic movement, somatic listening, and schizoanalytic processes that allow the body to become thought, territory, and escape. Each encounter is an invitation to return to the body as a poetic and ethical laboratory, where movement becomes living thought and its presence, a creative act.
Casa Batlló, Barcelona
Casa Batlló Mindfulness offers a unique experience that combines mindfulness practice with the architectural beauty of Casa Batlló. Inspired by Jon Kabat‑Zinn’s (mindfulness expert) definition, this experience invites you to engage fully with the present moment, pausing to breathe, observe, and connect with your physical and emotional self to build well‑being and resilience. The event program moves through successive stages, combining breathing exercises, guided meditation, and slow, gentle movement in harmony with the building’s unique spaces: a grounding reception and breath regulation; a meditation on perception in the Noble Floor; lengthened, awareness‑deepening breathwork in the Inner Garden; a sensory walk through the Patio of Lights; Qi Gong and deep breathing on the roof to relieve tension; and finally, Walking Meditation on the stairs designed by Kengo Kuma, where breath and steps flow together, body, mind, and space united. Casa Batlló, with its symbolism, craftsmanship, and authenticity, provides a powerful setting for mindfulness. The values of resilience, curiosity, and presence resonate with Healing Art Barcelona’s aim: to strengthen health through shared creative, aesthetic experience. This is more than a tour; “A unique opportunity to stop and experience Casa Batlló as a space of health, creativity and mindfulness”. Duration: 1 hour Limited places: 20 people
Tuesday 21 October 10:30 - 12:30
El Nadal Nursing Home, Vic
A group of El Nadal residents will participate in creating a personal portrait using contemporary art techniques. A portrait that defines us in the moment of action based on the emotions we feel, reflecting the present moment rather than what "we are" or the image of what we would like to be. Contemporary art allows us to depict situations in progress, without needing to be clearly defined and with the possibility of revealing doubts and contradictions. We will use a notebook, which is understood as a guideline that proposes a path toward self-knowledge and the artistic expression of what we feel. This activity is part of the ACVIC CON LA SALUD project.
October 26, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m
Parking lot of the old Rasos de Peguera Ski and Mountain Resort, Castellar del Riu
Natural·Ment is a monthly cycle of body expression and dance activities in nature that invites us to explore the relationship we have with ourselves, and with the environment —human and natural— from the presence and listening of the body. Each meeting takes place in a natural space in Berguedà —forests, rivers, meadows or paths—, where each landscape and season become an active part of the practice, contributing its uniqueness and elements to enrich the experience. The theme of each session is related to the place and time of year in order to enrich individual and collective research and experience.