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Building a culture
that treats creativity as
essential to human flourishing.
Creativity is a core human capacity
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JANE AWESOME, ACME CO.
3 Ways I Can Help You...
1
REFRAME
Shift how your people see creativity. We redefine creativity as a professional strength, not a talent or hobby. Your team learns how creative literacy fuels reflection, resilience, and growth, essential for sustainable learning, care, and leadership.
2
RELEARN
Build creative confidence through hands-on workshops. Participants engage in accessible, research-informed practices they can use personally and bring into classrooms, care settings, and teams. Practical and grounded training.
3
REBUILD
Integrate creative literacy into daily work. Together, we design retreats, learning experiences, and long-term initiatives that embed creativity into the fabric of organizational life, reducing burnout, deepening connection, and restoring purpose across your teams.
We treat the arts as a luxury, but nothing could be further from the truth.
SCIENCE WITH A SOUL
My work sits at the intersection of arts in health research, public humanities, and expressive practice. I'm currently completing an M.A. in Arts in Medicine at the University of Florida, building the evidence base for what I've known in practice for 30 years: that creative engagement is not supplemental to human wellbeing, it's constitutive of it.
PROCESS OVER PERFORMANCE
As Vice Chair of Athentikos and creator of In Dialogue with America — a year-long public humanities project — I've spent decades designing and leading experiences that use story, image, and reflection as tools for genuine human development. Not performance. Not productivity. Actual change.
Applied practice
As Vice Chair of Athentikos, an international nonprofit operating in Central America, I've spent years designing and field-testing arts-based resilience frameworks across cultures, building multiplication models that sustain community-led creative practice after outside support withdraws.
wHY IT mATTERS
Whether I'm facilitating, speaking, researching, or making, the goal is the same: to help build a culture where creativity is understood as a lifeline, essential to how humans think, connect, heal, and make meaning. That culture doesn't exist yet in America. That's the work.
The Michelle Rene Hill Pop Quiz
current creative obsession:
Art collaboration, visual poetry, and exploring how I can learn through creativity
Coffee or tea:
A personal blend of loose-leaf tea… or chocolate-espresso ice cream if it's that kind of day.
Always on my desk:
Pens, paintbrushes, highlighters, plants, and stacks of books that never stay organized.
Permission I give myself:
To be imperfect, to rest, and to slow down, because growth doesn’t happen in overdrive.
Favorite Place to think:
In the back-porch hammock, surrounded by hills, trees, and a thousand half-finished ideas.
Favorite creative Soundtrack:
Anything with cello and rain in the background.
Creativity isn’t a luxury,
it’s a lifeline.
Creativity isn’t self-indulgence, it’s how we stay human.
It restores connection where culture has created distance, meaning where systems have reduced us to output, and hope where urgency has taken root.
When we create, we remember who we are — and what we’re capable of becoming.
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