Lectures on Tap - "How Creativity Helps Us Heal the Human Body"

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🧠 Lecture: "How Creativity Helps Us Heal the Human Body"

🎤 Speaker: Isabelle Rizo, LPC, ATR

We tend to think of art and medicine as belonging to completely separate worlds—one rooted in creativity and emotion, the other in science and the body. But historically, healing has always involved both.

In this lecture, medical art psychotherapist Isabelle Rizo explores how creative practices have moved from ancient rituals and early psychiatric hospitals into modern healthcare settings, where they are increasingly recognized as powerful tools for communication, emotional regulation, and healing.

Through compelling real-world clinical stories from hospital settings—including neurology, transplant care, and chronic pain treatment—this talk reveals how art can help patients express experiences that words alone often cannot capture.

Blending psychology, neuroscience, medical history, and human storytelling, this lecture invites you to reconsider what healing really looks like when science and creativity work together. Isabelle’s practice at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago bridges art therapy, neuroscience, and medical humanities, bringing both clinical expertise and rich narrative insight to her work.

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Agenda

6:30 PM – Doors open: find a seat (open seating!), order food & drinks, and expect a bar line—arriving early is key.

6:55 PM – Host introduction

7:00 PM – Lecture begins

7:45 PM – Audience Q&A

8:00 PM – Have 1:1 time with the speaker, mingle with fellow guests, and order another round

8:30 PM – Wrap up.