Alison Waldman (she/her) is an architect of wellness initiatives in healthcare spaces, designing onsite and virtual patient- and provider-facing programs based in dance, mindfulness and community building.
As the Staff Care Lead and Resident Movement Artist at the Artist in Residence Program at Inova Schar Cancer Institute with the Smith Center for Healing and the Arts, Alison engages with the hospital community as a disrupter of burnout and instigator of healing. She works daily with doctors, nurses, and department heads to support their employees through a trauma-informed lens of arts and wellness interventions.
As a Movement Artist-in-Residence at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Alison co-developed the award-winning Movement for Multiple Sclerosis program with the GU Medical Center Department of Neurology; helps leads the virtual and onsite Ready to Move staff wellness offerings; and directs the annual Day of Dance – the first site specific dance performance of its kind in a healthcare clinic.
Alison is a fervent entrepreneur and curious collaborator, combining her knowledge of the body in motion and directorship of community care into partnerships of sciences and the humanities. As an artist she is classically trained performer with a specialization in making dances in nontraditional spaces and with people with chronic pain and illness. She is a trauma-informed yoga instructor (RYT-200®) with additional certifications in Accessible Yoga and Oncology Yoga.
Alison has consulted with multiple healthcare institutions on arts programs for staff care including as advisor and founding provider for Mili Health, a wellness telehealth platform for cancer patients; and the co-direction of workshops with Tara Rynders, RN and The Clinic. She leads private and for-hire wellness offerings for people with chronic pain and disabilities through Available Wellness.
Currently Alison serves as a member of the National Organization for Arts in Health (NOAH) Arts for Resilience in Clinicians working group, partnering with art therapists and arts in health leaders to highlight and strengthen staff-facing arts programs in healthcare spaces. Alison delivered her TEDx talk, “Why we should be dancing with our doctors,” in 2020.
As the Staff Care Lead and Resident Movement Artist at the Artist in Residence Program at Inova Schar Cancer Institute with the Smith Center for Healing and the Arts, Alison engages with the hospital community as a disrupter of burnout and instigator of healing. She works daily with doctors, nurses, and department heads to support their employees through a trauma-informed lens of arts and wellness interventions.
As a Movement Artist-in-Residence at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Alison co-developed the award-winning Movement for Multiple Sclerosis program with the GU Medical Center Department of Neurology; helps leads the virtual and onsite Ready to Move staff wellness offerings; and directs the annual Day of Dance – the first site specific dance performance of its kind in a healthcare clinic.
Alison is a fervent entrepreneur and curious collaborator, combining her knowledge of the body in motion and directorship of community care into partnerships of sciences and the humanities. As an artist she is classically trained performer with a specialization in making dances in nontraditional spaces and with people with chronic pain and illness. She is a trauma-informed yoga instructor (RYT-200®) with additional certifications in Accessible Yoga and Oncology Yoga.
Alison has consulted with multiple healthcare institutions on arts programs for staff care including as advisor and founding provider for Mili Health, a wellness telehealth platform for cancer patients; and the co-direction of workshops with Tara Rynders, RN and The Clinic. She leads private and for-hire wellness offerings for people with chronic pain and disabilities through Available Wellness.
Currently Alison serves as a member of the National Organization for Arts in Health (NOAH) Arts for Resilience in Clinicians working group, partnering with art therapists and arts in health leaders to highlight and strengthen staff-facing arts programs in healthcare spaces. Alison delivered her TEDx talk, “Why we should be dancing with our doctors,” in 2020.
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Booking
Alison is available for hire for public speaking, program consulting, and artistic direction.
She has proven experience in:
She has proven experience in:
Corporate and Employee Wellness Programs • Community Engagement • Facilitation • Business Growth Strategies • Accessibility and Equity • Strategic Planning • Event Planning • Program Design and Implementation • Communications and Design • Partner Relationship Building