A call to nurses
By Dr Marion Lynch BEM, FoNS Trustee, CEO Art of Nursing CIC, Creative Health Consultant
Step Into the Future of Creative Health and Learn How to Stay Human in Non-Human Systems
Nurses know better than anyone that today’s health systems can feel increasingly transactional, technologically driven, and stretched to the point where the human, the heart of care, can get lost.
This winter and spring, a new national series of free events and webinars invites nurses from every specialty, setting and stage of career to rediscover something vital: how creative health helps us stay human, connected and courageous within systems that are often anything but.
Led by myself and Professor Vicky Ridgway, and joined by artists, activists, researchers, performers and creative health pioneers, these events offer practical insight and energising inspiration for nurses who want to broaden their practice, strengthen their wellbeing and re-imagine what modern nursing can be.
Launch of the national special interest group for creative health
12.30-1.30, 17 December 2025, online
What is creative health and how are nurses involved? How are we bringing the arts and health together in nurse education, practice, research and leadership?
Nurses are already using creative approaches every day, through storytelling, presence, aesthetic awareness, communication and relational skill. This event brings the evidence, the practice and the ambition together.
Hear how creative health is reshaping education, elevating leadership, humanising care and sustaining nurses in complex environments.
Free to attend, open to nurses, students, educators, leaders and anyone curious, hosted by Dr Marion Lynch & Prof Vicky Ridgway
Visit the National Centre for Creative Health website
Book tickets for the special interest group launch
Art of nursing fireside webinar series (free)
I am delighted to host a bi-monthly national conversation drawing on my three decades of nursing, public health and collaborative work across arts, culture and health.
These one-hour sessions bring together the kind of people who shake your practice awake, clowns working in conflict zones, poets reshaping public memory, musicians transforming mental health, and activists using art for justice and community.
Open, warm, energising, and rooted in real-world nursing and accessible to listen. We try and have no slides, just a conversation.
Art in action
1.00-2.00, 22 January 2026, online
Featuring Red Noses (clowns in conflict zones) and the Reading Agency launching the national Year of Reading campaign, and more.
Musical notes on nursing
1.00-2.00, 5 March 2026, online
Explore music and health with partners across social prescribing and community music, including Open Harmony and Mums’ Singing Groups.
Making art part of health
23 April 2026
With Michael Rosen and creative leaders reflecting on the emotional, cultural and humanising power of the arts in modern care. (Everbrite coming soon).
The National Creative Health Summit & Exhibition: Nurses: Being Seen, Being Heard, Being
26-30 May 2026, Historic Royal Palaces, Kensington Palace, London
In partnership with Historic Royal Palaces, this landmark summit and exhibition brings creative health into one of the UK’s most iconic spaces.
Events will include:
- A newly written Palace tour by Dr Marion Lynch on queens’ historic influence on health
- Artwork, performances and workshops
- National celebration of nurses’ creativity, influence and humanity
- Launch of new thinking around artful, human-centred practice in the age of AI.
Booking details to follow.
Why nurses should come?
Because creative health is what makes us human. It is a route back to the meaning of our work.
These events will help nurses:
- Reconnect with purpose and identity
- Learn how the arts strengthen resilience and wellbeing
- Discover new approaches that humanise digital and data-heavy systems
- Build networks across sectors
- Advocate for the profession through creativity, culture and evidence
- Feel seen, valued and inspired in a way too rare in healthcare today.
A call to nurses.
If you want to remember why you came into nursing, if you want to bring courage and creativity back into your practice, or if you simply want to learn how to stay human in non-human systems, these events are for you.
Join us. Bring a colleague. Share widely.
This is the future of nursing, and you belong in the room.