Annette Rose
Annette Rose is a nurse-anthropologist, health educator and neuroArts advocate. She trained and nursed for 9 years in Christchurch hospital wards, operating theatres and in the community. She also completed degrees in Anthropology and in Business where she co-developed a new educational mask-making model which involved manufacturing 30,000 mask templates here in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Her experience has led her to work extensively with masks in schools and in supporting communities with trauma as well as wider wellness understandings. Her work has been recognized internationally including Australia, England, America, Canada, South America, Nicaragua, Sweden & Denmark, Japan, Cambodia, India, Africa, and Timor. She has co-published a women’s wellness journal, an initiative recognized by an award from the Christchurch City Council, New Zealand. She also received a research scholarship from the Health Research Council of New Zealand.
On Annette's virtual shelf you will find:
An applied neuro-arts workbook for classrooms - 'The Neuro-mask Toolbox'
And its how-we-did-it backstory - 'Making the Plain Face'
Designed for teachers, learners and community health providers, themes are; tactile engagement, embodied cognition, neural integration, and identity reformation following sudden identity shifts caused by destabilizing “life-quakes” such as natural disasters, war, displacement or any liminal zone (like adolescence) - woven together in a frame of cultural memory.
John Marsden, Australian writer (author of the seven-volume 'Tomorrow' novel series for young adults) and school principal says, ‘I was astounded by Annette Rose’s exploration of the masks created by children who have been hurt. The earthquake masks are among the most powerful things I’ve ever seen. They allow children to express their unconscious thoughts and feelings in extraordinary synchronicity with their conscious awareness. Annette’s work is rich with new insights, new perspectives, startling ideas. There seem to be almost no limits to where this book can take teachers and others'.
Contact: multimask@orcon.net.nz
Interests
Neuro-foodie
K-drama healing narrative enthusiast