<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Windsong Foundation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Windsong Foundation]]></description><link>https://www.windsongfoundation.org/news</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 03:33:04 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.windsongfoundation.org/es/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Can Music Help You Regulate Emotions After Trauma?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mastery through arts builds self-efficacy — belief in one's ability to succeed — that transfers to all other life domains. 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Here's what your gift funds and how to give.]]></description><link>https://www.windsongfoundation.org/post/can-i-use-my-donor-advised-fund-for-mental-health-arts-nonprofit</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acc14ba7ea08a33d77cfb56</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 22:59:20 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Kelli Redfield &apos;student&apos;</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Is the ROI of Arts Funding as a Mental Health Investment?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The economic cost of depression and anxiety in the US exceeds $210 billion annually. Arts-based prevention costs a fraction of treatment. Here's the investment case for funders.]]></description><link>https://www.windsongfoundation.org/post/roi-arts-funding-mental-health-cost-effectiveness</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acc14ba600a7efb2159bc77</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 22:59:20 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Kelli Redfield &apos;student&apos;</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Is Arts Prescribing and Does It Work?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The UK's social prescribing movement, led by UCL research, has shown measurable improvements in wellbeing, loneliness, and mental health across thousands of patients. Here's the evidence.]]></description><link>https://www.windsongfoundation.org/post/what-is-arts-prescribing-does-it-work-evidence</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acc14ba165b84309aa6040b</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 22:59:19 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Kelli Redfield &apos;student&apos;</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Does Group Singing Do to the Body? The Science]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cancer patients in group singing programs showed reduced cortisol, reduced inflammatory cytokines, and improved self-esteem after a single session, UCL research shows.]]></description><link>https://www.windsongfoundation.org/post/what-does-group-singing-do-to-your-body-science</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acc14b9600a7efb2159bc74</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 22:59:19 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Kelli Redfield &apos;student&apos;</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Are Artists at Higher Risk for Mental Health Problems?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artists face a unique paradox: the same activity that causes their occupational stress is also the most effective intervention for it. Here's what the research shows and why targeted support matters.]]></description><link>https://www.windsongfoundation.org/post/why-are-artists-more-likely-to-have-mental-health-problems</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acc147e03ce31675d0b52b8</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 22:59:05 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Kelli Redfield &apos;student&apos;</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Happens When Hospitals Use Art as Treatment?]]></title><description><![CDATA[In pediatric units, live music stopped children's crying within minutes. Premature babies resumed feeding. One burn patient stopped requesting pain medication. Here's the hospital evidence.]]></description><link>https://www.windsongfoundation.org/post/art-therapy-in-hospitals-research-outcomes</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acc147e7ea08a33d77cfaea</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 22:59:05 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Kelli Redfield &apos;student&apos;</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does Art Protect Against Dementia? What Brain Scans Show]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artists' brains show 5–7 years less aging on neuroimaging compared to non-artists, UCL research shows. Here's what the science says about art, cognitive reserve, and dementia.]]></description><link>https://www.windsongfoundation.org/post/does-art-protect-against-dementia-brain-aging</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acc147e165b84309aa6039f</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 22:59:05 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Kelli Redfield &apos;student&apos;</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Art Affects the Brain: What Neuroscience Has Found]]></title><description><![CDATA[Arts engagement activates the same dopamine reward circuits as food and sex, UCL neuroscience research shows. Here's what brain scans reveal about creativity and mental health.]]></description><link>https://www.windsongfoundation.org/post/how-does-art-affect-the-brain-neuroscience</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acc147e7ea08a33d77cfae7</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 22:59:04 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Kelli Redfield &apos;student&apos;</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Does Research Say About Art and Depression?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Regular arts engagement is associated with a ~50% reduced risk of developing depression over 10 years, UCL research shows. Here's what the science says and why it matters.]]></description><link>https://www.windsongfoundation.org/post/what-does-research-say-about-art-and-depression</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acc147d600a7efb2159bc14</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 22:59:04 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Kelli Redfield &apos;student&apos;</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ROI of Funding the Arts as Healthcare]]></title><description><![CDATA[For DAF holders and impact investors evaluating where to deploy charitable capital, the arts-as-healthcare case is unusually strong. The data on prevention, cost avoidance, and population-level outcomes points to arts funding as one of the highest-leverage investments available in mental health philanthropy.]]></description><link>https://www.windsongfoundation.org/post/the-roi-of-funding-the-arts-as-healthcare</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acc0f8111a1491ec084016a</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 22:36:49 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Kelli Redfield &apos;student&apos;</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to Deploy Your DAF to Protect Artist Mental Health]]></title><description><![CDATA[You have committed capital to charitable giving. The Windsong Foundation offers a specific, evidence-backed opportunity to deploy it toward one of the most underserved intersections in American philanthropy: the mental health of the creative professionals who make the art that heals everyone else.]]></description><link>https://www.windsongfoundation.org/post/how-to-deploy-your-daf-to-protect-artist-mental-health</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acc0f8111a1491ec084016d</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 22:36:49 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Kelli Redfield &apos;student&apos;</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Hospital Wards to Artist Residencies: The Same Science]]></title><description><![CDATA[The research that made arts-based interventions standard care in some of the world's leading hospitals is the same research that underlies what the Windsong Foundation does. The biological mechanisms are identical. The population is different — and equally deserving.]]></description><link>https://www.windsongfoundation.org/post/from-hospital-wards-to-artist-residencies-the-same-science</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acc0f8111a1491ec084016c</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 22:36:49 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Kelli Redfield &apos;student&apos;</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Group Arts Experiences Are Uniquely Powerful]]></title><description><![CDATA[Individual creative practice has documented health benefits. Group arts experiences have something more: they create a form of social bonding that research shows is faster, deeper, and more durable than what conversation or exercise alone can produce. Windsong Foundation builds community as intentionally as it builds programming.]]></description><link>https://www.windsongfoundation.org/post/why-group-arts-experiences-are-uniquely-powerful</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acc0f8111a1491ec084016e</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 22:36:49 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Kelli Redfield &apos;student&apos;</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mastery, Self-Efficacy, and the Transformative Power of Creative Skill]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of the least-discussed mechanisms in the arts-and-health literature is mastery — the process of developing genuine skill in a creative discipline. The research shows that mastery through the arts builds self-efficacy that transfers across every domain of a person's life. The Windsong residency is designed to be exactly that kind of catalyst.]]></description><link>https://www.windsongfoundation.org/post/mastery-self-efficacy-and-the-transformative-power-of-creative-skill</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acc0f8111a1491ec084016b</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 22:36:49 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Kelli Redfield &apos;student&apos;</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Artists Are a High-Risk Mental Health Population]]></title><description><![CDATA[The arts both demand and relieve psychological stress — which makes creative professionals one of the most underserved mental health populations in America. The Windsong Foundation was built to close that gap, starting with an honest answer to the question no one has been asking: what do creatives actually need?]]></description><link>https://www.windsongfoundation.org/post/why-artists-are-a-high-risk-mental-health-population</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acc0d65600a7efb2159af70</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 22:27:49 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Kelli Redfield &apos;student&apos;</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Artist's Brain Is 5 to 7 Years Younger]]></title><description><![CDATA[Neuroimaging studies have produced a striking finding: people who regularly engage with the arts show measurable cognitive reserve — a buffer against age-related brain decline that translates, on average, to a brain that functions as if it were 5 to 7 years younger. For artists, this means their craft is protecting their most essential tool.]]></description><link>https://www.windsongfoundation.org/post/the-artist-s-brain-is-5-to-7-years-younger</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acc0d65600a7efb2159af72</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 22:27:49 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Kelli Redfield &apos;student&apos;</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Science Is In: Art Is Medicine]]></title><description><![CDATA[For millennia, humans have known that art heals. Now we have the data to prove it. Researcher Daisy Fancourt of University College London has spent her career quantifying what artists and healers have long understood — and the findings are impossible to ignore.]]></description><link>https://www.windsongfoundation.org/post/the-science-is-in-art-is-medicine</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acc0d65600a7efb2159af73</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 22:27:49 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Kelli Redfield &apos;student&apos;</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[50% Less Depression: What the Data Says]]></title><description><![CDATA[The most striking finding in the arts-and-health literature is not a clinical anecdote or a small pilot study. It comes from epidemiological research tracking tens of thousands of people over more than a decade — and it points to a 50% reduction in the risk of developing depression among those who regularly engage with the arts.]]></description><link>https://www.windsongfoundation.org/post/50-less-depression-what-the-data-says</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acc0d65600a7efb2159af74</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 22:27:49 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Kelli Redfield &apos;student&apos;</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Happens in Your Brain When You Make Art]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every time you pick up an instrument, a brush, or a pen, your brain initiates a cascade of neurochemical events. Researchers have now mapped these events in detail — and the picture that emerges explains why creative practice is among the most powerful tools we have for mental and neurological health.]]></description><link>https://www.windsongfoundation.org/post/what-happens-in-your-brain-when-you-make-art</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acc0d65600a7efb2159af71</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 22:27:49 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Kelli Redfield &apos;student&apos;</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>