Explore our workshop rundowns designed around core narrative medicine principles and on specific themes. We invite you to use them in a variety of settings as-is or adapt them for a specific context or population you’re facilitating for.
Core Narrative Medicine Workshops
Attention
Core narrative medicine principle. We recommend beginning with this workshop. Generous listening and noticing. Recognizing the breadth of health narratives.
(Re)Presentation
Core narrative medicine principle. Recognizing, then re-presenting others’ stories appropriately. Bringing awareness to position and bias.
Witness
Bearing witness to and unpacking healthcare experiences and lived experiences. Deepening the process of listening, presence, responding, and assimilating.
Themed Workshops
Access
Think of the many types of barriers—physical, linguistic, systemic, institutional—people face in life, but particularly accessing healthcare.
Armor
The protective layers we bring to healthcare settings, the masks we wear, or ways we inhabit multiple roles and identities.
Creation
The generative nature of human interaction and interaction with art, beauty, change and hardship. Creation or co-creation of new ideas.
Joy
Joy is a critical component of justice, self-care and building community amid struggle, anger, fear and exhaustion.
Pain
How terms like wellness, illness, healing, and pain are applied differently depending on situation and bias. Who defines these terms? Whose pain is believed?
Perseverance
We don’t always know what we can handle. Sometimes skills we don’t realize we have show up precisely when they need to.
Transition
How we move through and engage with healthcare settings, illness and healing. Noticing how the self changes.