Smith Center for Healing and the Arts - community. creativity. support

We believe that everyone has innate powers to heal within.

The programs and resources offered at Smith Center for Healing and the Arts are designed to enhance each individual’s ability to access those powers, leading to enhanced health and wholeness. Join us this fall for classes, lectures and events at our newly renovated center on U Street in Washington, DC.

U Street Programs and Workshops

Our integrated approach of stress reduction, healthy lifestyle choices, art-making, self expression, and community can birth simple yet profound changes that radically transform our lives. The goal of programs is to provide a dynamic and thought-provoking forum for exploring new ideas among diverse groups of people. 

Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery at Smith Center for Healing and the Arts

The gallery is open to the public and features artwork that speaks to our larger community with a focus on art that serves to educate, enlighten, empower, and cultivate greater healing, beyond the physical.

Resources for General Health & Wholeness

Visit our Resources Section for an ever-growing selection of podcasts, videos, downloads and books on health and wholeness.

What is Healing?

At Smith Center, we believe that healing is a lifelong journey in which each individual’s path is unique. It is an integrative process that encompasses the entire spectrum of our existence – physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. The healing process helps us to find meaning by asking what is right with ourselves and exploring our most fulfilling ways of being, relating, and creating in the world. It makes our perspectives larger and wiser.

Upcoming Health & Wholeness Programs