This narrative medicine workshop is specially designed for health practitioners such as medical doctors, nurses, psychologists, psychiatrists and volunteers who are concerned with the care of the unwell.
Narrative medicine concerns itself with how storytelling techniques are used to facilitate states of thresholds and changes of life. In the workshop we look at how narrative medicine is applied in both post-modern and traditional cultures to create meaning, purpose and transformation.
This workshop aims to enhance your narrative skills in healthcare, improving patient interactions and personal understanding through storytelling.
- Develop your narrative medicine skills to improve patient care and personal growth. This workshop provides tools for deeper self-awareness and more effective communication.
- Learn to use narrative effectively in the healer-patient relationship. This workshop guides you through exercises and discussions to refine your storytelling and communication.
- Improve your narrative skills in healthcare. This workshop will increase your awareness of your storytelling style, enhance patient relationships, and foster personal and professional growth through practical exercises and reflection.
The workshop has helpful methods to help you become a better and more confident health professional. It examines what it means to be a human being spiritually, intellectually, emotionally and physically. The workshop helps you choose, learn and create knowledge in a way that will ultimately be of greatest benefit to you.
The workshop is designed to help you take charge of your professional and family life and change for the better. You can work through the workshop by yourself or, better still, you can have one or more buddies to go through the text, do the exercises, conversations and questions that emerge from it
Key topics
- How stories are used in healing professions in both traditional and post-modern contexts
- Stories that heal, stories of change, stories of emergency, stories that create meaning and purpose
- Virtues of the healer: Listening, Empathy, Compassion, Vision, Charisma, Power, Authority and Caring
- Transforming patient narratives – the healer’s role as an authority
The workshop also includes an web or smartphone based personal story competence assessment that is done before the workshop.
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