Welcome to the registration site for Creating Space 16:
"The Impact of Identities on Health and Wellbeing" 

April 20-21, 2026

50 Sussex | Ottawa, ON

 

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Registration Fees

Please select the fee type below applicable to your registration. All fees are subject to 13% H.S.T.

The Canadian Association for Health Humanities (CAHH) Membership 

Creating Space 16 offers registrants the option to purchase or renew their Canadian Association for Health Humanities (CAHH) membership as part of the registration process. Membership status is verified on an ongoing basis. Registrants who select the member rate but do not hold an active CAHH membership will have their registration fees adjusted to the applicable non-member rate. 

Why should I become a CAHH member?

  • Access to Health Humanities Rounds (launching 2026), featuring synchronous online educational opportunities
  • Eligibility for nomination for the CAHH National Award for Excellence in the Health Humanities (launching 2026), recognizing outstanding scholarly, artistic, educational, and public leadership contributions
  • Opportunities to participate in Creating Space, CAHH’s annual national health humanities conference, which brings together scholars, educators, clinicians, artists, and students from across Canada and beyond
  • Eligibility to stand for nomination to the CAHH Executive and Advisory Council and to vote at the Annual General Meeting
  • Enrollment in the moderated CAHH listserv, which shares key announcements and enables community exchange

Member Benefits Specific to Creating Space 16

  • Reduce registration fees
  • Access to complimentary pre-conference workshops
  • Reduced social activity fees
  • Access to bonus on demand presentations
  • And more!
400.00
550.00
550.00
550.00
Registration Fees

Please select the fee type below applicable to your registration. All fees are subject to 13% H.S.T.

The Canadian Association for Health Humanities (CAHH) Membership 

Creating Space 16 offers registrants the option to purchase or renew their Canadian Association for Health Humanities (CAHH) membership as part of the registration process. Membership status is verified on an ongoing basis. Registrants who select the member rate but do not hold an active CAHH membership will have their registration fees adjusted to the applicable non-member rate. 

Why should I become a CAHH member?

  • Access to Health Humanities Rounds (launching 2026), featuring synchronous online educational opportunities
  • Eligibility for nomination for the CAHH National Award for Excellence in the Health Humanities (launching 2026), recognizing outstanding scholarly, artistic, educational, and public leadership contributions
  • Opportunities to participate in Creating Space, CAHH’s annual national health humanities conference, which brings together scholars, educators, clinicians, artists, and students from across Canada and beyond
  • Eligibility to stand for nomination to the CAHH Executive and Advisory Council and to vote at the Annual General Meeting
  • Enrollment in the moderated CAHH listserv, which shares key announcements and enables community exchange

Member Benefits Specific to Creating Space 16

  • Reduce registration fees
  • Access to complimentary pre-conference workshops
  • Reduced social activity fees
  • Access to bonus on demand presentations
  • And more!
300.00
400.00
400.00
400.00
Registration Fees

Please select the fee type below applicable to your registration. All fees are subject to 13% H.S.T.

The Canadian Association for Health Humanities (CAHH) Membership 

Creating Space 16 is pleased to offer complimentary membership to the Canadian Association for Health Humanities (CAHH) as part of the resident registration rate.

Why become a CAHH member?

  • Access to Health Humanities Rounds (launching 2026), featuring synchronous online educational opportunities
  • Eligibility for nomination for the CAHH National Award for Excellence in the Health Humanities (launching 2026), recognizing outstanding scholarly, artistic, educational, and public leadership contributions
  • Opportunities to participate in Creating Space, CAHH’s annual national health humanities conference, which brings together scholars, educators, clinicians, artists, and students from across Canada and beyond
  • Eligibility to stand for nomination to the CAHH Executive and Advisory Council and to vote at the Annual General Meeting
  • Enrollment in the moderated CAHH listserv, which shares key announcements and enables community exchange

Member Benefits Specific to Creating Space 16

  • Reduce registration fees
  • Access to complimentary pre-conference workshops
  • Reduced social activity fees
  • Access to bonus on demand presentations
  • And more!
225.00
Registration Fees

Please select the fee type below applicable to your registration. All fees are subject to 13% H.S.T.

The Canadian Association for Health Humanities (CAHH) Membership 

Creating Space 16 is pleased to offer complimentary membership to the Canadian Association for Health Humanities (CAHH) as part of the student registration rate. We're also excited to offer a limited number of subsidized spots for students!

Why become a CAHH member?

  • Access to Health Humanities Rounds (launching 2026), featuring synchronous online educational opportunities
  • Eligibility for nomination for the CAHH National Award for Excellence in the Health Humanities (launching 2026), recognizing outstanding scholarly, artistic, educational, and public leadership contributions
  • Opportunities to participate in Creating Space, CAHH’s annual national health humanities conference, which brings together scholars, educators, clinicians, artists, and students from across Canada and beyond
  • Eligibility to stand for nomination to the CAHH Executive and Advisory Council and to vote at the Annual General Meeting
  • Enrollment in the moderated CAHH listserv, which shares key announcements and enables community exchange

Member Benefits Specific to Creating Space 16

  • Reduce registration fees
  • Access to complimentary pre-conference workshops
  • Reduced social activity fees
  • Access to bonus on demand presentations
  • And more!
150.00
100.00
Registration Fees

Please select the fee type below applicable to your registration. All fees are subject to 13% H.S.T.

The Canadian Association for Health Humanities (CAHH) Membership 

Creating Space 16 is pleased to offer complimentary membership to the Canadian Association for Health Humanities (CAHH) as part of the community member / artist registration rate. We're also excited to offer a limited number of subsidized spots for community members and artists!

Why become a CAHH member?

  • Access to Health Humanities Rounds (launching 2026), featuring synchronous online educational opportunities
  • Eligibility for nomination for the CAHH National Award for Excellence in the Health Humanities (launching 2026), recognizing outstanding scholarly, artistic, educational, and public leadership contributions
  • Opportunities to participate in Creating Space, CAHH’s annual national health humanities conference, which brings together scholars, educators, clinicians, artists, and students from across Canada and beyond
  • Eligibility to stand for nomination to the CAHH Executive and Advisory Council and to vote at the Annual General Meeting
  • Enrollment in the moderated CAHH listserv, which shares key announcements and enables community exchange

Member Benefits Specific to Creating Space 16

  • Reduce registration fees
  • Access to complimentary pre-conference workshops
  • Reduced social activity fees
  • Access to bonus on demand presentations
  • And more!
150.00
100.00
Social Activities

Creating Space 16 offers the following optional social and hands-on activities as part of this year’s program. Additional fees may apply.

Healing the Healers Through Narrative-Based Medicine
Date: Apr 19, 2026 Time: 1300 - 1430

Healthcare systems face entrenched challenges that contribute to physician burnout, distress, and poorer patient outcomes. Narrative-Based Medicine (NBM) offers an evidence-informed approach to restoring meaning, purpose, and well-being in clinical practice. This interactive session introduces participants to core NBM principles and practical tools shown to enhance clinician well-being and patient care. Drawing on outcomes from a successful faculty workshop, participants will engage in guided reading, reflective writing, and discussion, and will leave with a personal action plan for integrating NBM into their clinical and teaching contexts.

Presented by: Dr. Aisha Husain, Dr. Amita Dayal

Learning Objectives: 

  • Describe the rationale for using NBM in cultivating well-being
  • Apply at least two NBM tools to your practice

Fee:

  • $0 for CAHH members
  • $25 for non-members 
Amazing Race @ Creating Space
Date: Apr 19, 2026 Time: 1300 - 1800

This Amazing Race–style adventure through the downtown core, featuring over 5 surprise, fully accessible stops. Choose to go self-paced or join a group starting at 3:00 PM. Each stop offers quick, creative challenges - mixing art, reflection, medicine and creative expression—designed to spark connection and fresh perspectives. Bio breaks are built into the route, and no destinations are revealed in advance. No spoilers, no competition—just an engaging way to explore, reflect, and play together. Come solo or with a team, move at your own pace and expect to see both the city and your work in care a little differently.

Fee:

  • $50 for CAHH members
  • $65 for non-members
Amazing Race Team Options
Creating Space 16 Welcome Reception
Date: Apr 19, 2026 Time: 1800 - 2030

In collaboration with HeARTCare and the Ottawa Art Gallery. Don't miss guest speaker Retired Senator Patricia Bovey and a performance by the GAD7.

Join us for a lively evening that brings the day’s creative journey to a close. The Creating Space 16 and HeARTCare Café Reception welcomes participants alongside the broader HeARTCare community for an informal reception with light hors d’oeuvres, a cash bar and time to explore exhibits and connect. The evening features welcoming remarks from partner organizations, a curated opening performance, a featured presentation organized by HeARTCare and a closing reflective performance. The night concludes with optional networking and continued conversation in a relaxed, arts-forward setting.

Fee: 

  • $15 for CAHH members
  • $30 for non-members
Evening at Club SAW
Date: Apr 20, 2026 Time: 1800 - 2000

Join us for an Evening at Club SAW featuring a specially curated exhibit for Creating Space 16. Participants are invited to explore the gallery, connect with fellow attendees and enjoy light refreshments throughout the evening.

Fee:

  • $0 for CAHH members
  • $25 for non-members 
VTS Workshop
Date: Apr 21, 2026 Time: 1400 - 1530

The National Gallery of Canada is delighted to collaborate with Creating Space 16, to deliver a Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) workshop for conference participants. The workshop will be co-facilitated alongside Dr. Wendy Stewart (Associate Professor; Director of Medical Humanities; Director of Faculty Development, Continuing Professional Development, and Medical Education, Department of Pediatrics, Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine) and Dr. Alan Ng (Associate Professor, Director of Behavioural Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa). 

VTS is a well-established educational approach that cultivates careful observation, reflective dialogue, and perspective-taking, and has demonstrated significant value in health professions and medical education—particularly in fostering empathy, patient-centred care and provider wellbeing.

Fee: 

  • $15 for CAHH members
  • $30 for non-members
Support Access & Inclusion at Creating Space 16

You may choose to make an optional contribution to the Creating Space 16 Bursary Fund, which helps remove financial barriers for participants whose voices are essential to the health humanities community—including students, artists, individuals with lived experience and those from equity-deserving or historically underrepresented groups. Your support helps ensure Creating Space remains inclusive, accessible, and socially accountable, while strengthening connections among educators, clinicians, learners, artists and partners from across Canada and beyond. Together, we can bridge art and science, reflection and education—fostering healthcare grounded in creativity, empathy, and connection. For contributions over $150, please contact sheena.levesque@uottawa.ca.

Registration Summary
Terms and Conditions
CANCELLATION Refunds less $75 administrative charge will be issued for cancellations received in writing by February 20, 2026. No refunds will be issued for cancellations received after that date. All refunds will be processed after the event.  CAHH MEMBERSHIP Creating Space 16 offers registrants the option to purchase or renew their Canadian Association for Health Humanities (CAHH) membership as part of the registration process. Membership status is verified on an ongoing basis. Registrants who select the member rate but do not hold an active CAHH membership will have their registration fees adjusted to the applicable non-member rate DISPLAYS DURING CREATING SPACE 16 Participants whose artwork has been accepted for display may bring original works or reproductions. While all reasonable efforts will be made to display original artwork in an appropriate manner, Creating Space 16 and its partners shall not be held liable for any loss, damage, theft or deterioration of artwork during the conference. STATEMENT OF OCPD PRIVACY OBLIGATIONS TO LEARNERS AND SPEAKERS OCPD is committed to the protection of all personal information collected and used in the operation and management of its programs. All personal information provided to OCPD will be protected in accordance with uOttawa Policy 90 and the applicable privacy legislation, including the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. OCPD and the CC16 Planning Committee will not provide learner and speaker information (e.g. disclosure agreements, communications with speakers) to any third parties such as external organizations, sponsors or other industry concerns. OCPD does provide the Ottawa Hospital Academic Medical Organization with lists of members who speak for OCPD so they may qualify for TOHAMO recognition. Information collected by OCPD may be amended or deleted by the learner or speaker provided reasonable rationale and identification are provided. Learners and speakers may opt out of future contact either through the registration system or contacting us directly at: cpd@uottawa.ca POLICY ON PATIENT PRIVACY As our programs deal with clinical content, cases are frequently used in presentations. OCPD follows Ontario’s Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004 (PHIPA) which prohibits the disclosure of a patient’s healthcare information outside of a patient’s circle of care. While the Act permits use of personal health information for “educating agents to provide health care” {37(1e)}, OCPD directs speakers to ensure that any case material does not provide any patient identifiers. USE OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND RECORDINGS I UNDERSTAND that the photographs, videos or audio recordings of me may be circulated widely and that, if posted on the University of Ottawa’s website, in its online searchable image bank or on any other websites, they will be available to the public. I also understand that the University has no control over, and is not responsible for, the use or misuse of materials available on its website, including any photographs, videos or audio recordings of me. FOR THE PURPOSE STATED ABOVE, I CONSENT to be photographed, video recorded and audio recorded by the University of Ottawa or its authorized representatives. I ALSO GIVE MY PERMISSION to the University of Ottawa, to its representatives and to users of the University’s online searchable image bank to use, reproduce, publish, transmit, distribute, broadcast and display photographs, videos or audio recordings that contain my image or voice, with or without my name associated with them. In any current or future University of Ottawa material, publications, multimedia productions, video, displays, advertisements and on the University’s website, social media website and other current or future media, without further notice to me or without my approval of the finished photographs, videos or audio recordings.  RECORDED CONTENT DISCLAIMER The online courses, webinars and other resources accessible to participants, post course are previously recorded offerings made available for viewing at your convenience. The content of these archived courses, webinars and other resources are not altered or updated after they are presented live or uploaded to this webpage. As circumstances and information evolve, some content may no longer be accurate or current. Users are reminded to check correctness and applicability of content against current information and circumstances.COVID-19I understand that all Ontario COVID-19 public health guidelines in effect at the time of the event must be followed at the event location (e.g. vaccination, masking, etc.) CODE OF CONDUCT: PROMOTING A POSITIVE AND RESPECTFUL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT As part of our commitment to providing high-quality medical education, we strive to foster a safe, inclusive, and respectful environment for all participants, including learners, faculty, staff, sponsors, and guests. By registering for and attending this event, you agree to abide by the following Code of Conduct. We thank you for contributing to a welcoming and professional environment that supports learning and growth for all. Respect and Professionalism: Treat all participants with courtesy and respect, regardless of their role, background, gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, ability, or professional status; Engage in open, thoughtful dialogue and avoid disruptive or disrespectful behaviour; Refrain from demeaning, discriminatory, or harassing speech or actions. Anti-Harassment Commitment: Harassment in any form will not be tolerated. This includes, but is not limited to: Verbal or written comments that reinforce social marginalization or exclusion; Unwelcome sexual attention or advances; Intimidation, stalking, or sustained disruption of sessions or social events; Inappropriate use of images, recordings, or online content during the event. Creating a Safe Learning Space: Encourage learning through supportive feedback and collaborative engagement; Respect differing opinions and experiences in discussions; Refrain from sharing personal health information or other sensitive data without written explicit consent. Reporting and Accountability: If you experience or witness any behaviour that violates this Code of Conduct, please report it promptly to event organizers or designated staff at the registration desk or via email at cpd@uottawa.ca. Violations may result in actions including but not limited to: removal from the event (in-person or virtual), loss of access to event materials, or prohibition from future events.
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April 19-21, 2026 
50 Sussex | Ottawa, ON
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