W o r k s h o p s
Workshops are live, interactive sessions led by a founding member of the Care Lab Collective and arranged by request for groups. Each workshop guides participants through a creative exploration of what care is and can be, with a particular focus as described below. Sessions typically include writing, reflection, simple sketching or visual note-making, and discussion. All Care Lab workshops use creative reflection methods and are not a form of therapy or counseling. No prior experience or special skills are required—only a willingness to participate. Workshops are scheduled by special arrangement and follow a standard fee structure. We also welcome conversation about flexible options for community or educational groups.
(Re)storying Care
This workshop invites participants to revisit a care experience and imagine how it might unfold differently. Through guided creative reflection, participants explore what it means to give and receive care. Designed with healthcare and educational contexts in mind, the workshop offers creative, research-informed methods for reflecting on, processing, and understanding our relationships to care and systems of care. Participants will leave with practical tools they can use to create similar reflective opportunities within their own teams, departments, or care communities.
Curiosity as a Practice
This workshop invites participants to explore curiosity as a communication practice that supports care and connection. Through guided reflection and simple sketching, we will consider how creative approaches to listening and reflection can support collaboration and ease the pressures of care work.
Designed for healthcare, counseling, veterinary, and educational settings, the workshop offers participants creative, research-informed approaches to sustaining empathy and resilience. Participants will leave with methods they can adapt to strengthen curiosity, communication, and connection within their own teams and care communities.
Ethical Dilemmas in Care
Was there a time that you faced an ethical dilemma in providing or receiving care? Or do you have general ethical questions about care as a concept or practice? This may include questions about what care is, how care is provided, and to whom it is provided. Such questions may also inquire into a specific care practice or field of practice. The workshop will provide an opportunity to creatively explore those dilemmas using comics. By doing so, participants will be better equipped to understand and work through such dilemmas by illustrating just what is at stake. This workshop uses creative reflection methods and is not a form of therapy or counseling.
See: Fanon’s Police Inspector , a neuroethics article in comics form published by a Care Lab Collective founding member.
Care in Critique
This workshop is excellent for graduate students or early career scholars, or people entering into a new area of scholarship. Participants will use a primary piece of scholarship or theory they are already working with and be guided through an exercise that will allow them to understand the humanity of the scholars they are engaging with, and better understand their own motivations for the scholarship they do.