The connection between arts and well-being, which has been recognized since the very first Le Well Wednesday Wellness Workshop in partnership with Duke Arts Create in January 2024, is gaining traction - and evidence! According to a recent article in the Guardian, "Professor Daisy Fancourt, the director of the WHO center and is also a co-author of the research, said it had shown that “arts engagement has diverse and tangible effects on health, from supporting cognitive development and protecting against cognitive decline, to reducing symptoms of mental illness and enhancing well-being..." What better reason to check out Le Well’s weekly Wednesday workshops!!? Duke Arts Create offers workshops twice monthly, and we also hope students will propose workshop ideas and partner with Le Well to implement!
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Le Well June 30, 2025 Newsletter
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Imperfection Session: How does who you are interact with your identity as a healthcare provider?
What happens when self-concept does not fully match up to the robust image of health and wellbeing we feel obligated to portray professionally?
Update on CAPS@Le Well
"I look forward to creating a safe space for the students so that they are free to express themselves." ~ Monica Money
LE WELL: Lunar New Year in Collaboration with DukeMed Chinese
Le Well was excited to kick off the Lunar New Year with a celebration replete with boba tea and dumplings along with festive decorations, music, paper-cutting and education courtesy of Joy Xiao (DKU ’23, DPT ’26), Vivian Apple (T ’26) and me
Le Well Welcomes Jeanine Bandini to SOM Well-Being Navigator Role
With generous support from the Duke Endowment, Le Well is working to provide identification and intervention with appropriate resources to facilitate thriving of students in SOM HPE programs. We welcome Jeanine Bandini, LCSW, to serve as Le Well’s Well-Being Navigator for the remainder of the project.
Say the Hard Things: An Evening with Bestselling Author Jessica Lahey in Recognition of Suicide Prevention Month
Bestselling author Jessica Lahey spoke to a group of students, staff and faculty interested in wellbeing on September 26, 2024, toward the end of National Suicide Prevention Month. Espousing a “deep disdain for euphemisms,” Lahey spent an hour sharing her own personal experiences – ranging from growing up in the secrecy of a family afflicted by disordered alcohol use to confronting her own alcohol use disorder to challenging implicit and explicit consider
LE WELL: Basics of Massage, 9/4/2024
When second-year MD program student Lindsay Riley learned that MD program administrative coordinator Kamara Carpenter not only runs a tight ship with respect to compliance, clinical education and community-building but also is a certified massage therapist with over 20 years of experience, she had an idea. Noting that she had tried in her previous institution to create a massage interest group to receive instruction from local massage therapists, Riley approached Le Well’s Dr.
LE WELL: Happiness Journaling 7/24/2024
“Choose happiness.”
Amanda Kahn with a journal at the start of the Happiness Journal session 7/24/2024