After studying Parkinson’s disease for her Neuroscience PhD at the University of British Columbia, Naila Kuhlmann turned to her training in circus and dance to pursue arts-based knowledge translation for her postdoctoral fellowship at McGill University. Her participatory research-creation explores the role of the body in shaping experiential knowledge and interpersonal interactions, and how arts and technologies may serve to connect, communicate and co-create across bodymind differences. She is the principal investigator of a College and Community Social Innovation Fund at HUPR Centre, “Creative Language: an arts-based approach to opening communication avenues for individuals with neurological conditions”.