physician • educator • performing artist
Using Improv to Improve Wellbeing
Collaboration • Communication • Creativity • Playfulness • Resilience • Gratitude
Hi! I’m Belinda.
I share the gifts of improvisation through speaking, teaching, writing, and performing, to improve health and wellbeing for all.
Welcome!
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Learn Medical improv
Discover how improv skills and principles can transform healthcare
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Watch an upcoming show: improv, music, and more!
Featured interviews
How improv can transform healthcare
Dr. Belinda Fu is the featured guest on this episode of Jeremy Richard’s “Think Like an Improviser” podcast, in which “she describes surprising insights about how medical improv can improve communication, cognition, and wellness for both physicians and their patients.”
The Open-Hearted MD Podcast
Improv has really helped me be more me ... and to feel comfortable being a human in the room — Dr. Belinda Fu
“In this episode, “Improvisation and Humor”, Dr. Belinda Fu and Dr. John Stevens join medical student Timothy Knowlton to explore how improv and humor build trust with patients.”
BBC podcasts: The Why Factor
On this episode, “Emotional Labour”, host Nastaran Tavakoli-Far investigates the professional labour of managing emotional expressions when interacting with others. She interviews Dr. Belinda Fu (14:00) about how the practice of improvisation can improve one’s emotional expressive agility.
University of Washington CLIMECasts
In this podcast episode from the UW Center for Learning and Innovation in Medical Education, Belinda shares her approach to teaching improv as well as her personal experience of the transformative power of learning how to listen to others and oneself and say “yes and” to life.
