About this speaker
Tara Rynders RN, MFA, BSN, BA has been a registered nurse for over twenty years and has a Bachelor’s degree in Nursing, a Bachelor’s degree in Spanish, and a Masters in Fine Arts in Dance with a specialization in Movement and Somatic Practices. Rynders, an Advanced Grief Recovery Specialist, is the CEO and founder of The Clinic, an arts and play-based company that provides workshops, performances, and research around burnout and secondary traumatic stress. Rynders is extremely honored to have received the following awards: Colorado Business for the Arts 2022 EY Next Wave Leader Award, 2021 Mara Mogensen Lectureship awarded by the Oncology Nursing Foundation, 2019 A Blade of Grass Fellowship, 2019 Colorado Regional Nightingale Luminary award, and the 2019 National Organization for Arts in Health Hamilton Award for Arts in Resiliency. Rynders most recently returned from a Fulbright in the Netherlands conducting research and sharing best practices around arts-based interventions around wellness and resilience and her most recent publication can be viewed in the July 2022 issue of the AMA Journal of Ethics, Arts-Based Research in Health Care “How the Arts Help Us Hold Grief and Maintain Collective Care”
