Step-by-Step Narrative Medicine Guides for Facilitation and Practice

Narrative medicine activities strengthen one’s ability to listen, witness, and communicate in healthcare settings. Using a standardized approach to looking, listening, reflecting, and experiencing creative works together, narrative competence can be developed and taught in a small-group setting.

These guides are a resource to support trained narrative medicine facilitators and participants curious about the practice of narrative medicine. They are intended to be used by clinicians, educators, scholars, patient advocates, and other trained leaders of narrative medicine activities in diverse communities and workplaces.