This workshop brings together musicians, artists, and writers with educators to explore creativity. Using the paintbrush and podium tools, participants will engage in creative practices that reveal dimensions of human experience clinical training often overlooks. Artists will share how their disciplines cultivate the capacities clinicians need: deep listening, tolerance for ambiguity, attention to what's unspoken, and staying present with suffering. Educators and students will collaborate on designing learning experiences that integrate artistic practices into core medical training. 

With Hector Acevedo, Meg Chilsom, Lori Landay, Torleif Lunde, Mena Ramos and Alper Uzun

This workshop creates space for indigenous knowledge holders and religious leaders to guide participants through understanding health as interconnectedness and community wholeness rather than individual pathology. Using the mirror for reflection and the microscope for examining hidden assumptions, participants will explore how indigenous epistemologies challenge dominant biomedical frameworks. The goal is developing actionable commitments to decolonizing medical education.

With Jared Angaza, Fr. Greg Gaston, Lisa Lehmann, Sr. Rosa Pacatte, Katia Powell-Laurent and Per Urlaub

This workshop uses the flashlight to illuminate how AI is reshaping medical education and practice, while employing the microscope to examine whose values and epistemologies are embedded in these systems. Religious leaders, activists, and ethicists will join educators in exploring fundamental questions: What does human dignity require when algorithms increasingly guide clinical decisions? How do we ensure AI serves communities most harmed by healthcare inequities rather than amplifying existing disparities? Through case-based discussion and design sessions, participants will develop frameworks for teaching future clinicians to critically evaluate AI tools, advocate for their patients when technology falls short, and participate in shaping technologies that honor diverse ways of knowing health. 

With Mariana Arcaya, Catherine Bielick, Maya Hammoud, Leslie LaConte, Kim Lomis, Brock Mutcheson, Sian Tsuei and Minnan Xu