Anne Palmer, DMA, is a musician, neuroarts practitioner, and consultant who helps people and organizations navigate change—using creative and research-informed approaches to support leadership, culture, and wellbeing.

Her work integrates lived experience, neuroarts research, and creative practice to help individuals, teams, and communities move through transition with clarity and intention.

What This Looks Like in Practice

Anne’s work takes many forms, shaped by context, relationship, and need. Through the Center for Arts & Wellbeing, she engages with individuals, organizations, and collaborative initiatives navigating change at different scales.

In practice, this work always begins with listening—creating space to slow down, surface what matters, and understand the people, systems, and conditions involved. Rather than offering a fixed program, engagements are shaped in response to purpose, place, and people.

Across settings, the work may include:

  • Creating shared language for navigating change, transition, and uncertainty

  • Using creative and reflective practices to support insight, attention, and sense-making

  • Translating research into lived, usable experience without oversimplifying complexity

  • Designing processes and environments that support care, inclusion, and meaningful participation

  • Supporting integration over time, so insight moves from idea to embodied practice

  • Perspective-shaping talks and facilitated conversations that create shared language for navigating change. These engagements draw on lived experience, creative practice, and research-informed insight, and are often situated within conferences, retreats, and convenings where reflection, listening, and meaning-making are central.

    These engagements may also include creative neuroarts workshops or participatory experiences, depending on context.

  • Thought partnership for organizations and individuals navigating transition, growth, or cultural change. This work is relational and context-sensitive, shaped by listening first, and may include strategic reflection, facilitation, coaching, and translation between research, creative practice, and real-world application.

  • Longer-term initiatives and partnerships that connect arts, wellbeing, and research across sectors. This work supports shared learning, experimentation, and the development of more inclusive, human-centered systems, environments, and cultural practices.

Working With Change

Change rarely arrives as a single decision or moment. More often, it unfolds over time—shaping how people listen, relate, and act within complex systems.

Anne’s work brings together creative practice, neuroarts research, and lived experience to support change processes that require attention, adaptation, and care for both people and context. Whether working with individuals, organizations, or cross-sector initiatives, the focus remains on helping insight move into practice in ways that are sustainable and intentionally designed.

Alongside her independent work through the Center for Arts & Wellbeing, Anne collaborates with research and practice initiatives including the International Arts + Mind Lab at Johns Hopkins University. Across all settings, her work is guided by a commitment to accessibility, belonging, and individual and collective wellbeing.

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