On the Edge of Health and Design

Cameron Norman is an expert in helping organizations navigate change. As a teaser to our in-depth interview, check out this trailer, where Cameron explains how having a designer's mindset facilitates the process of change making.

Stay tuned for our upcoming episode with Cameron - "Change Making by Design" coming soon!

In this month's episode, we dive into a young person's journey with an incurable blood cancer known to affect older individuals - Multiple Myeloma.

Tanya Zigomanis was diagnosed at the age of 37. She is a young mother and patient advocate who leverages her law background and social network towards advancing myeloma research. She also applies her experiences to support other cancer patients and families navigating the complex challenges of chronic illness.

Tanya works towards innovation in cancer care, including advocating for connecting family doctors to specialists to facilitate timely cancer diagnoses and treatments.

Listen to our intimate conversation with Tanya and connect with us at [email protected] to learn about how connecting with patients and caregivers can help you and/or your healthcare organization.

Resources:

Tanya's email: [email protected]

For more information about Multiple Myeloma, visit Myeloma Canada's website here: https://myelomacanada.ca

In our upcoming episode promoting Myeloma Awareness, we interview Tanya Zigomanis, a patient expert and advocate on Multiple Myeloma, an incurable blood cancer. Here, Tanya shares her key learnings from her cancer journey around being open and embracing digital technology to connect patients, caregivers and the cancer community.

Did you know that Empathy can be a Superpower? In this month's podcast episode, we interview Morẹ́nikẹ́ Ẹniọlá Ọláòṣebìkan, a pharmaceutical manufacturing innovator, licensed pharmacist and pharmacy owner, who embraces Empathy in Drug Design.

Morẹ́nikẹ́ s Deep Empathy for others forms a strong foundation for her ventures, making her an Innovation Superhero in medication design & delivery! Listen to our brief, but entertaining conversation and connect with us to learn about how to cultivate Empathy (email: [email protected]).

Resources

Morẹ́nikẹ́'s ventures, collectively known as Kemet Group, is on the following social media platforms:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/kemet-group/

https://www.youtube.com/@kemetglobal

https://www.facebook.com/kemetpharm

In our upcoming podcast episode, we interview Morẹ́nikẹ́ Ẹniọlá Ọláòṣebìkan, a pharmaceutical manufacturing Innovator, licensed pharmacist and pharmacy owner, who practices empathy in drug design. Here, Morẹ́nikẹ́ shares her understanding of the Theory of Change, which social innovators use as their underlying philosophy driving behavioural change.

In this special episode, our SIC Health team interviews Sandra Viviana Murillo-Morales, arQ RunicoS.

Viviana is an interdisciplinary visual artist practicing conscious ambidextrous drawing, the use of both hands while drawing. She identifies as a neurodivergent individual. Trained as an architect in Colombia, freehand drawing was always an essential communication tool in her professional practice in landscape architecture and urban design. After Viviana was diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer in 2019, she began exercising both hands to alleviate pain from peripheral neuropathy in her fingers, a chronic side effect caused by cancer treatments. She developed her drawing technique using coloured pencils and watercolour on different media. Her creative process is intuitive and focuses on gratitude for life. 

Our conversation reveals Viviana's cancer journey, her regeneration through her art, her advocacy work with Ovarian Cancer Canada, her identification as a neurodivergent individual, and her deep connection to the healing power of nature. We hope Viviana's story is as inspiring to you as it was to us!

Resources

Viviana's Instagram accounts:

• Legacy @Arqrunicos_colour
• Photographic essays @Arqrunicos

Viviana's website (placeholder): www.arqrunicos.ca

Ovarian Cancer Canada's website: https://ovariancanada.org

In this upcoming episode, we interview Sandra Viviana Murillo-Morales, an interdisciplinary artist who practices conscious ambidextrous drawing, the use of both hands while drawing.

Here's a sneak peek of Viviana's reflections around her brush with death and her rebirth through art.

Warning: subject matter may be triggering for some individuals

Design's origins stem from creative practices like the arts, music and writing. In this episode, we explore creative writing practice by interviewing two coaches from Firefly Creative Writing.

Firefly Creative Writing helps people reconnect to the pleasure and power of writing through workshops, coaching and snail mail, online and in-person.

Writing coaches, Kim and Mary, share their personal journeys with writing, their experiences with coaching, and most importantly, how they create diverse and inclusive spaces for writing together with BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Colour) communities.

Lessons learned, such as the need for BIPOC programming to be led and owned by BIPOC identifying individuals and the concept of a "spectrum of safety and freedom", could be applied to organizations working on enhancing their equity, diversity and inclusion.

Resources - Firefly Creative Writing

website: https://fireflycreativewriting.com/

facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fireflycreativewriting

instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fireflycreativewriting/

Kim and Mary from Firefly's Black, Indigenous & People of Colour (BIPOC) coaching team describe what "On the Edge" means to them.

Stay tuned for our full interview coming soon!

In this month's episode, your cohosts interview Julie Gilbert, an independent consultant and coach at Julie Gilbert Consulting and founder of the Impact Institute. Julie has over 25 years of experience working with public sector and nonprofit organizations, including the Movember Foundation.

Julie is a self-described "boundary spanner". She brings her expertise from multiple domains together to evaluate the impact that organizations have at local, community and societal levels. Our conversation explores impact and evaluation through a design thinking lens, including discussing the use of Impact Narratives, Community Journey Mapping and Trauma Informed Evaluation, all of which organizations could consider towards growing their impact.

Resources

• Julie's website: https://juliegilbertconsulting.com/
• Impact Institute: https://juliegilbertconsulting.com/impact-institute
• Stepping Stones to Impact (course launch May 18, 2023): https://juliegilbertconsulting.com/stepping-stones-to-impact
• Innoweave: https://innoweave.ca/