About The Center for Arts & Wellbeing

The Center for Arts & Wellbeing helps individuals, organizations, and communities navigate change through creative practice, reflection, and neuroarts-informed experiences.

Founded by Anne Palmer, the Center brings together coaching, consulting, speaking, and collaborative experiences that support connection, wellbeing, and intentional growth.


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  • Anne offers private sessions and coaching experiences for individuals navigating transition, creative renewal, and intentional change.

    Voice for Wellbeing

    Voice is more than performance.
    It’s breath, expression, connection, and the experience of being heard.

    For many people, reconnecting with voice also means reconnecting with confidence, creativity, attention, and presence.

    These private sessions and small-group experiences are designed for people who want to reconnect with their voice and may not know where to begin.

    Through guided listening, simple vocal exploration, breath, and reflection, participants explore voice in a supportive and accessible environment.

    No singing experience required.

    Rewriting the Score Coaching™

    Rewriting the Score Coaching™ is Anne’s signature one-on-one coaching experience for individuals navigating personal or professional transition.

    Grounded in deep listening, reflection, and intentional practice, this six-session process supports clients as they move through change with greater clarity, creativity, and self-awareness.

    Each session explores one movement of the Rewriting the Score™ framework:

    • Listen

    • Reimagine

    • Rehearse

    • Reintegrate

    • Become

    The process is spacious, reflective, and practical, helping insight become embodied practice over time.

  • Anne partners with organizations, initiatives, and interdisciplinary teams exploring change, wellbeing, creativity, and human connection.

    Drawing on creative practice, neuroarts-informed perspectives, and lived experience, this work supports thoughtful collaboration, meaningful engagement, and real-world application across diverse settings.

    Consulting & Advisory

    Anne works with organizations and leadership teams through consulting, facilitation, and strategic thought partnership.

    Areas of focus may include:

    • Navigating organizational or cultural change

    • Translating research into real-world practice

    • Designing experiences that support wellbeing, attention, and connection

    • Facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration

    • Supporting reflection, alignment, and creative thinking within teams and leadership spaces

    Engagements range from short-term advisory support to longer-term collaborative partnerships.

    Creative Neuroarts Workshops & Experiences

    Anne facilitates creative neuroarts workshops and experiences that explore connection, creativity, wellbeing, and change through shared artistic practice.

    Workshops may incorporate voice, listening, movement, reflection, and collaborative creative exploration in ways that are accessible, participatory, and responsive to the people involved.

    This work is often developed in partnership with arts organizations, educational institutions, healthcare settings, and community initiatives, with particular care for inclusion, accessibility, and embodied learning.

    Each experience is shaped around the goals, context, and community it serves.

  • Anne speaks and facilitates experiences for conferences, organizations, universities, and interdisciplinary gatherings exploring change, creativity, wellbeing, and human connection.

    Drawing on lived experience, creative practice, and neuroarts-informed perspectives, her work invites audiences into deeper reflection, attention, and possibility.

    Signature Keynote

    Rewriting the Score™: The Art of Growing with Change is Anne’s signature keynote experience.

    Grounded in her journey as a professional musician and bilateral cochlear implant recipient, the keynote explores how losing and retraining hearing became a framework for navigating change, adaptation, and identity.

    Structured around five movements — Listening, Reimagining, Rehearsing, Reintegrating, and Becoming — the talk offers audiences a shared language for understanding transition with greater clarity, creativity, and care.

    Part personal story, part practical framework, Rewriting the Score™ invites audiences to consider how change can become a process of intentional growth rather than simply survival.

    This keynote is well suited for conferences, retreats, healthcare and educational settings, leadership gatherings, and interdisciplinary events.

    Additional Talks & Experiences

    Anne also offers shorter talks, facilitated conversations, and creative experiences tailored to the needs of a specific gathering or audience.

    Topics may include:

    • Creativity and wellbeing

    • Listening, attention, and perception

    • Neuroarts and human connection

    • Leadership, culture, and change

    • Accessibility, adaptation, and resilience

    These engagements are developed collaboratively and are designed to support reflection, dialogue, and meaningful audience connection.



An Invitation

Change rarely arrives with perfect clarity.

Whether you are navigating transition, creative renewal, leadership challenges, or a new season of growth, Anne welcomes a conversation about what support might look like.

Some engagements begin with a keynote or organizational partnership. Others begin more personally, through coaching, voice, or reflection.

Together, you can explore what feels most needed and where the work might begin.