The Center for Arts & Wellbeing is the umbrella for the independent work, collaborations, and long-term initiatives of Dr. Anne Palmer. It exists to advance creative, research-informed approaches to navigating change at individual, organizational, and systems levels.

Grounded in the belief that the arts are essential to individual and collective wellbeing, the Center integrates creativity and lived experience, informed by neuroarts research, to support leadership and culture across sectors. Its work draws on artistic practice and human-centered design, with a deep commitment to accessibility, belonging, and inclusion.

Through the Center, Anne offers speaking, consulting, collaborative partnerships, and creative programs designed to support organizations and communities as they navigate transition, growth, and cultural change. The Center also serves as a home for field-building efforts and partnerships that extend beyond any single project or institution.

Designed as a flexible and evolving platform, the Center for Arts & Wellbeing creates conditions for experimentation, shared learning, and thoughtful application. As the work continues to grow, it supports new programs, partnerships, and places dedicated to creativity, connection, and wellbeing.

Across speaking, consulting, coaching, creative practice, and private listening work, the Center supports people and organizations navigating change through listening, creativity, and research-informed attention to how individuals and communities grow, adapt, and belong.

Speaking & Convening

Anne Palmer’s speaking work creates shared language for navigating change, drawing on lived experience, creative practice, and research-informed insight. Her talks support reflection and understanding around leadership, culture, and wellbeing, particularly during moments of transition.

Speaking is one expression of Anne’s broader consulting and collaborative practice and is most often situated within convenings or gatherings where thoughtfulness, listening, and meaning-making are central.

Signature Keynote

Rewriting the Score™: The Art of Growing with Change

Rewriting the Score™ is Anne’s primary keynote offering.

Grounded in her experience as a professional musician and bilateral cochlear implant recipient, the keynote traces how the loss and retraining of hearing became a framework for navigating change individually and collectively.

Structured around five movements—Listening, Reimagining, Rehearsing, Reintegrating, and Becoming—the talk offers a shared language for understanding transition, attention, and adaptation. It invites audiences to engage change with clarity, creativity, and care.

This keynote is well suited for conferences, retreats, academic settings, and cross-sector gatherings where reflection and shared perspective are valued.

Additional Conversations

In some contexts, Anne is invited to offer shorter talks or structured conversations building on these themes, including:

• Navigating change and transition
• Creativity as a resource for wellbeing
• Listening, perception, and attention
• Neuroarts perspectives on leadership and culture

These engagements are shaped in conversation with hosts and typically complement an existing gathering.

Organizational & Collaborative Work

Anne’s consulting and collaborative work supports organizations, initiatives, and leaders navigating complexity, transition, and cultural change. Drawing on creative practice, neuroarts-informed perspectives, and lived experience, this work helps clients slow down, clarify what matters, and move forward with greater intention.

Engagements are relational, context-sensitive, and shaped through listening first, with care for the people, systems, and cultures involved.

Consulting & Advisory

Consulting engagements may include:

• Strategic thought partnership during periods of transition or uncertainty • Support for leaders or teams navigating organizational change
• Translation between research, creative practice, and real-world application
• Designing processes or experiences that support attention, care, and connection
• Reflection and integration at individual, team, or organizational levels

Engagements range from short-term advisory conversations to longer-term partnerships depending on context and need.

Creative Neuroarts Workshops & Experiences

Anne also facilitates creative neuroarts workshops and experiences that invite participants to engage change through listening, movement, imagination, and shared creative practice.

Workshops are often developed in collaboration with arts organizations and community partners, particularly in place-based or disability-affirming settings. This work reflects Anne’s commitment to inclusion, embodied learning, and creating environments where people with varied experiences and abilities can engage together meaningfully.

Each workshop is shaped in response to the people, purpose, and context involved, with care for how learning and connection unfold in real time.

Individual Practice

Alongside organizational and collaborative work, Anne works privately with individuals navigating moments of transition, preparation, or creative renewal.

Private work unfolds through listening-centered experiences shaped collaboratively around individual goals, pacing, and readiness.

Listening Sessions & The Reset

Anne works privately with individuals through Listening Sessions and The Reset, two pathways for exploring voice, listening, and expression in a more personal setting.

Grounded in professional vocal training and decades of performance and university teaching experience, this work integrates vocal technique, curiosity, and creative exploration to support authentic expression during moments of transition, preparation, or creative renewal.

Sessions are spacious and conversation-based. Some clients come to reconnect with singing after time away; others arrive preparing for important conversations, creative work, or moments of change.

Whether returning to voice or approaching it for the first time, the work begins with listening.

Rewriting the Score Coaching™

Rewriting the Score Coaching™ is Anne’s signature one-on-one coaching offering.

This six-session arc supports individuals navigating personal or professional transition through deep listening, reflection, and intentional change over time.

Each session centers on one movement:

Listen — tuning into what is emerging
Reimagine — imagining new possibilities and directions
Rehearse — practicing intentional change
Reintegrate — allowing practice to settle into identity and daily rhythm
Become — stepping into what comes next with greater clarity and intention

The process is spacious, reflective, and practical, supporting clients as insight becomes embodied practice over time.

An Invitation

Change rarely arrives with perfect clarity. If you are navigating a moment of transition, reorientation, or possibility and are wondering what support might look like, Anne welcomes a conversation.

Some engagements begin with a keynote or organizational partnership. Others begin quietly, through listening and reflection. Together, you can explore what feels most needed and where the work might begin.