HeARTists

Here’s a brief list of organizations that are paramount to the mission behind the HeART of Healing Project. We’re updating its content every day, so make sure you check back in to see the latest and greatest!

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The Archimedes Movement is our main sponsor and provides the bulk of volunteers for the behind-the-scenes organization. Executive Director Liz Baxter strides ahead of the health reform curve and lays the guidelines for a true and sustainable health care system, one that is based upon grassrooted community support, not just upon the agendas of pie-in-the-sky legislation.

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Artist, Tiffany Chantel-Wheeler, poises herself on the front line, acting as advocate and creative specialist for non-profits and local businesses alike. Her expertise has cultivated several inspirational designs through her organization entitled: Creative Currants.

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The Community Health Project has its eye squarely stationed on the street’s montely scene: capturing heARTfelt opinions, thoughts, and expressive acts of fellow Portlanders. Sarah and Hamid– the creative team behind the camera– seek to witness our changing times and to offer insight for novel ways of approaching our next yellow brick road.

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Jessica Hirsch of Pinball Publishing is co-sponsoring a project with Mariah Maines entitled the Portland Healing Project, where they seek to combine traditional forms of healing within the context of urban community. Taking the ancient with a dose of contemporary, Jessica and Mariah plan to display the links between health and art at the Fontanelle Gallery around Portland to keep us all connected to the synergy therein.

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The Helfgott Research Institute continues to bridge how the art of medicine can be defined for use in the clinical setting. The Director of Research, Dr. Heather Zwickey, a long time proponent of the healing arts community, is delighted to have the opportunity to explore the role of research in an avant garde fashion, literally tilting the scales towards a real, working model for research communities.

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The HeART of Healing Project is nothing new to the Kaiser Permanente Journal‘s Editor in Chief, Dr. Tom Janisse. His career encompasses years of research delving into the doctor-patient relationship as well as the more heARTful sides of health practitioners with his publications Soul of the Healer and his latest brainchild, Leaflet.

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Mike Meyers is the host and founder of  89.1 FM’s Mississippi West. Mike has a long history in radio programming starting over 20 years ago in Eugene, Oregon. He was voted “Best DJ” by a readers’ poll. In addition to radio, Mike is a practicing therapist working with many diverse populations in Portland.

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The Northwest Indian Storytellers Association (NISA) was formed in October 2005 to encourage, preserve and strengthen traditional storytelling among tribes in Oregon, Washington and Idaho, and to share tribal oral cultural arts with the entire regional community. This group take oral and traditional storytelling to a new level, highlighting words upon the radio waves and drum-beaten paths…  enriching the deep connection that we all share as humans on this planet.

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Health transformation takes a high road, especially when the Oregon Collaborative of Integrative Medicine (OCIM) hops on board. This over-arching entity is committed to bringing integrative medicine to new levels of awareness, collaborating with the National College of Natural Medicine (NCNM), Oregon College of Oriental Medicine (OCOM), Oregon Health & Sciences University (OHSU), and Western States Chiropractic College (WSCC). All of Portland’s medical institutions understand the value of putting art in the minds of future health practitioners and seek to demonstrate its effectiveness throughout the month of October with student- and faculty-initiated artistic displays.

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“Whisper and the mountains shall move” is the motto of Whispering ink publishing. This local company has supported efforts to raise awareness about the multitude of options surrounding health care. Through its subtle shifting, the Editor in Chief, Kimberly Ann, seeks to divert attention back to the heART of worldly matters.

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