Research shows that creativity helps to relieve stress, support resilience, and promote individual well-being and community health. Creativity also helps us to solve problems, generate innovative ideas, and connect with ourselves and each other. 

Self-care is essential for burnout prevention, stress management, and resilience. The compassion we give to ourselves supports our ability to be compassionate and effective in our professional and personal lives.

This creative experience focuses on the higher purposes of creativity and self-care, where self-care is more than just about relaxation and leisure, and creativity is more than just about art and having fun. The powerful combination of creativity and self-care offers a transformative and compassionate experience for both the individual and the collective. 

We balance fluid and improvisational creative practices with research-based self-care practices. Participants will leave this engaging creative experience with a greater connection to their creative drives and take with them practical self-care tools that can be used daily to support well-being, peace, success, and fulfillment.

ABOUT DR. AMI KUNIMURA

Ami Kunimura, Ph.D., MT-BC is the founder of The Self-Care Institute. She holds a Ph.D. in Mind-Body Medicine and is a board-certified music therapist.

Ami provides therapeutic support for individuals and organizations worldwide with burnout prevention, burnout recovery, stress management, and sustainable self-care.

Ami has worked with organizations such as Alaska Airlines, Procter & Gamble, California Park and Recreation Society, and various healthcare, corporate, and non-profit organizations. Ami has presented on self-care and occupational burnout at international events and conferences. She has also developed and facilitated research-based educational courses and programs on burnout prevention and self-care.

Ami has taught as a lecturer at UCLA and as an adjunct graduate faculty member at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and Saybrook University. As a board-certified music therapist since 2006, Ami specializes in mental health, trauma, and addictions treatment.

Ami received a Ph.D. in Mind-Body Medicine from Saybrook University, MA in Music Therapy from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, and BA in Psychology from Loyola Marymount University.

Ami (pronounced Ah-me) was born and raised in Hawaii and she splits her time between Southern California and The Big Island of Hawaii.