experiential care in modern medicine
an invitation to think, feel, and be together — in person, in Echo Park
MOVN salons at the backyard lounge:
living connections
at the intersection of psychology, philosophy, and social experience.
upcoming:
our next salon features Huy Vo, who will share with us his work attending to the experiential and subtle dimensions of care within the modern healthcare system
the evening
movn salons are softly structured evenings where conversation, listening, music, and food unfold around a 45-minute salon talk at the center of the night.
intimate, in person, and grounded in togetherness — this is a word-of-mouth gathering, small by design.
what moves between us
we are living through a time of profound estrangement. and yet here we are — drawn to each other, craving something that doesn’t have a name yet but feels urgent.
not a lecture. not a workshop. a circle, a field, a collective form of sense-making — drawing on practices that came before us and continue beyond.
our salons create conditions for living presence — with one another, with a neighborhood, and with psychological life as it is evolving now. each person is a world unto themselves. these evenings explore what becomes possible when worlds meet.
featured speaker: Huy Vo
Huy Vo is a nurse anesthetist at UCLA Health whose work explores how healthcare might evolve through a deeper attention to experience. Working within anesthesiology, he brings awareness to the environmental and sensory conditions that shape patient experience and perception during moments of care. In settings often defined by precision, urgency, and routine, Vo attends to subtle factors such as sound, imagery, and surroundings as factors shaping overall health and healing.
Vo was recently highlighted by the UCLA Health System for his work in transforming the pre-surgery experience with calming integrative modalities including sound baths, soothing conversations, swirling ceiling projections and essential oils. Vo says the practice is about helping both patients and healthcare workers feel more grounded, cared for and emotionally supported.
His clinical approach is informed by an ongoing study of somatic approaches to the nervous system, including Somatic Experiencing. This work reflects a personal and professional inquiry into how experience is formed and how care can be understood not only as intervention, but as something lived.
details
backyard lounge • free
Echo Park, Los Angeles
child-free event • space is limited
**stay tuned for confirmation of the date and RSVP info
your host: Dr. Heather LaFace
Dr. Heather LaFace is a licensed clinical psychologist, systems thinker, and the founder of MOVN Embodiment Collective. her work explores what moves between us — in therapy, in groups, and in the living field of human relationship.
MOVN Salons are her latest endeavor: bringing people together in living presence to explore the deeper questions of consciousness, experience, entangled connectivity, and what it means to keep becoming ourselves.
