Dance and Creative Writing for Wellbeing with Laura Sarah Dowdall, Veronica Casey and Mike Hanrahan

Creative Brainwaves returns for a third series of talks and workshops, exploring how our engagement in various creative arts can benefit our brain health. The sessions include brain health specialists, therapists, people living with and working with those affected by acquired brain injury, and a range of artists, musicians and writers. This series is curated and facilitated by Mike Hanrahan, Global Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health at Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI), Trinity College Dublin.

Laura Sarah Dowdall is an international facilitator and speaker on creative health, wellness and inclusion, working as a somatic movement expert, holistic practitioner and professional dancer choreographer specialising in inclusive dance for people with vision-loss and collaborates with organisations and communities to support positive action and awareness of access, inclusion, environmental, creative and wellness needs(www.healingyoga.ie)

Veronica Casey (BAPhil, DipComm, DipECE) is a poet and short story writer who works with adults to develop their reading and writing skills, and teaches creative writing to both children and adults. With a combined passion for education and health, Veronica also works in the community, developing and running projects to promote wellbeing through health, education, and physical activity.

Mike Hanrahan is a writer, musician and Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health . Mike presented the hit television series Songs of Ireland with Pat Shortt and also performs with Irish Folk star Eleanor Shanley.

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