The Arts & Wellbeing Gathering is a community of artists, arts-based practitioners and those working in the healing arts in the Hudson Valley and environs of New York who gather monthly to share work, research, and practices in artmaking as wellbeing and healthcare as an artform.

 

Founded in March 2025, this open collective operates without formal membership or nonprofit status, creating a supportive, non-judgmental space where diverse healing arts practitioners can freely exchange their expertise in a playful and accessible environment.

 

We have professionals from a wide range of disciplines, including psychotherapy, bodywork, sound, music, visual arts, movement and dance, creative arts therapies, breathwork, Reiki, storytelling, dreamwork, medicine, cooking, meditation, Deep Listening, etc. all united by shared values around the therapeutic power of creative expression and the power of play in fostering community. 

 

Rather than meeting in one fixed location, the group intentionally moves throughout the Hudson Valley to discover and connect with the region's many beautiful and diverse places and like-minded individuals who share an interest and commitment to the healing arts. This ever-evolving, growing community attracts professionals from across numerous Hudson Valley counties, including Ulster, Orange, and Dutchess, among others.

 

Being that several of our members (including us, the founders) are certified Deep Listening® facilitators, we have immutable connections to the Hudson Valley where the founders of Deep Listening® (Pauline Oliveros and Ione) have lived and still provide resources for the global Deep Listening community at large.  We continue to develop gathering points throughout the Hudson Valley and Catskills regions to ensure our collective maintains accessibility to as many people as possible.