The Healthy Village
The Healthy Village
OHIO’s Immersive Healthcare Theater
The Healthy Village is an interdisciplinary program supporting the production of theater, visual and audio storytelling, and other arts-based projects to help artists and health care professionals develop social skills in real-time problem solving, communication, and advocacy toward community wellbeing.
The Healthy Village is founded on the idea that professionals in Theater and Healthcare have a lot to teach each other about:
• The transformational power of storytelling
• Bearing witness to the challenges and triumphs of the human condition
• Holding space for ambiguity, empathy, and reflection
5
College Partners
150
Students Engaged
2
New Undergraduate Courses
$143,500
Funding Awarded
The Healthy Village applies techniques from theater to train students in OHIO’s College of Health Sciences and Professions and Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine.
As a result, health care professionals enhance their clinical training with arts-based methods for improving patient advocacy, interprofessional teamwork, and communication.
Learn more about the program’s components below!
Project Leaders
Samuel Dodd
Director, Ohio Valley Center for Collaborative Arts
Assistant Professor of Instruction, Art History
dodds1@ohio.edu
(740) 566-6466
Art + Design
Tobe Gillogly
Assistant Clinical Professor and Chair
gilloglt@ohio.edu
College of Health Sciences and Professions
Read More About The Healthy Village
Students heading into health care careers benefit from new theater class offered through CoArts’ The Healthy Village
For two years, Ohio University’s College of Fine Arts faculty have partnered with faculty in the College of Health Sciences and Professions (CHSP) to offer Interprofessional Healthcare through Creative Arts, a class offered through The Healthy Village and designed to prepare students for health care related careers by applying theater arts techniques.