Narrative Medicine Skills Training

Northwest Narrative Medicine Collaborative (NWNMC) developed Narrative Medicine Skills Training with support from the Mellon Foundation and the Lewis & Clark College Center for Community and Global Health.

Narrative Medicine Skills Training
Saturday, February 22, 2025
8:45 am - 3:30 pm

Training will be held in-person, on campus at:
Lewis & Clark College
Portland, OR

Narrative Medicine Skills Training introduces the narrative medicine principles of attention, representation, and affiliation and develops participant skills of listening and witnessing. We will reflect on how listening and witnessing can be applied to stories of health, illness and healing in diverse healthcare settings to improve care and support healing.

Who is Training for?

• Students entering, studying, or considering the health professions
• Healthcare professionals, faculty, and staff curious about the practice of narrative medicine.
• Folks living with health conditions as patients or caregivers

In-person and interactive, this workshop encourages exploration, curiosity, and discussion in large and small groups, pairs, and mixed cohorts of students, healthcare professionals, and community members interested in the practice of narrative medicine. There will be opportunities to listen, read, write reflectively, and time to share writing if participants choose. Adequate breaks and restoration periods are included, as is lunch!

We are strengthened individually when we do this work in community–all are welcome.

At Narrative Medicine Skills Training participants will learn to:

• Define and practice the narrative medicine principles of attention, representation and affiliation.
• Strengthen their narrative medicine skills.
• Reflect on how narrative medicine practice can build systems of trust
• Explore narrative medicine applications in diverse settings.