Marie Garlock, PhD: Mobilizer. Educator. Co-creator.

Here for Our Bodies, Our Stories events February 10, 24, and March 2? Learn more here!

 

Warm greetings, I’m Dr. Marie Garlock.

Co-Emcee with Director Aya Shabu of “The Gospel According to Baba Chuck Davis” NorthStar Church of the Arts, 2019

Honoring Danielle Bailey-Lash, with fellow team members on The Lilies Project in Stokes County, NC, via ArtPlace America, 2020

Honoring Danielle Bailey-Lash, with fellow team members on The Lilies Project in Stokes County, NC, via ArtPlace America, 2020

I’m an arts cultivator, researcher, and educator for health, justice, and community building initiatives. I partner with public engagement projects in healthcare, educational, and policy settings.

The interactive curricula, live events, creative design/documentation and workshop programs I co-develop are arts driven, research-based, and community accountable. Let’s collaborate!

 
Facilitating an interactive, research-based Theater Delta keynote, “Surviving or Thriving?”, for Greensboro AHEC professionals at a Poverty, Transportation, Housing + Health summit, 2019

Facilitating an interactive, research-based Theater Delta keynote, “Surviving or Thriving?”, for Greensboro AHEC professionals at a Poverty, Transportation, Housing + Health summit, 2019

Leading a workshop for “Flipping Cancer” keynote performance for Levine Cancer Institute / Atrium Health’s “THINK: Treating Health Inequities with New Knowledge” summit for clinical professionals, 2018

Leading a workshop for “Flipping Cancer” keynote performance for Levine Cancer Institute / Atrium Health’s “THINK: Treating Health Inequities with New Knowledge” summit for clinical professionals, 2018

What do I do?

It is my joy to lead and co-lead professional development and grant-supported creative programming with local and global partners. About Marie.

The leadership methods I use bring tangible results, from Interactive Theater for conflict transformation, to InterPlay methods for group dialogue and discernment, to Popular Education strategies for experiential and systems-level learning.

 
Participants at our Theater Delta forum workshop for Duke University Neurosciences Department on addressing implicit bias, 2019

Participants at our Theater Delta forum workshop for Duke University Neurosciences Department on addressing implicit bias, 2019

Participants rehearse interventions at a bystander + anti-discrimination workshop for clinical educators + nursing student body, DUSON, 2019

Participants rehearse interventions at a bystander + anti-ISMs workshop for clinical educators + nursing student body, DUSON, 2019

What will audiences gain?

Client partners report that tailored methods and my creative, effective facilitation help to:

(1) improve participants’ learning outcomes

(2) connect participants and colleagues to one another more deeply than ever before

(3) “level up” and build on prior trainings by connecting core concepts to practical skills, offering memorable, interactive applications that genuinely translate knowledge into action

Learn about current + past projects.

 

Why “It Is In You”?

Because each of us has the capacity to be a change-maker.

Enriching, interactive educational experiences can generate tangible skills and strategies for building a more just, healthy world. When we join in communities dedicated to creative, courageous communication, we awaken both our own inner-power and a sense of shared integrity.