A Virtual Workshop and Online Course

Join us for our first virtual workshop since 2022 and connect with others from around the world for a foundational exploration of narrative medicine.

Register now for Early Bird pricing on tuition!

Come experience the foundational elements of narrative medicine presented by our faculty and practiced together with participants from all over the world in our immersive and intimate online format!

We are excited to share this learning experience in a virtual format that brings together participants from all over the world for a weekend of intensive skill-building in foundational elements of narrative medicine practice. The Division of Narrative Medicine offers an transformative virtual experience, including lectures, small group work, literature, educational and networking resources, continuing education credits, and direct interaction with narrative medicine faculty. Live virtual sessions combine with asynchronous learning modalities to deliver an introduction to the field that provides the same learning, connection, and profound experience as traditional in-person workshops.

Full schedule and details, including faculty presentations, tuition rates, our discount for cohorts, and information about online resources are listed on the event website!

Workshop Description & Objectives

This intensive workshop will offer rigorous skill-building in narrative competence and provides an intensive introductory experience to the methods and skills of narrative medicine. These practices are then applicable to unlimited clinical and non-clinical settings. Participants will experience plenary presentations by the founders of the Division of Narrative Medicine in both live and asynchronous formats and will engage with faculty, trained facilitators, and each other live via Zoom for interactive presentations, Q&A, and small group work.

Narrative medicine recognizes the aesthetic capabilities of its practitioners as fundamental instruments necessary for effective care. Acts of perception and attention ignite our narrative practice. Seeing, hearing, sensing, taking in that which we witness begins the process toward healing, and narrative medicine training attunes us to those skills within ourselves. We grow toward our own powers to attend to our patients through the schooled avenues of close reading, deep listening, and concentrated witnessing of works of art.

Participants will learn effective techniques for attentive listening, adopting others’ perspectives, accurate representation, and reflective reasoning. Plenary presentations by faculty open up themes of how stories and art work, exploring concepts such as creativity, ethics, bearing witness, and empathy, while the small groups practice rigorous skills in close reading, creative writing, and responding to the writings of others. Close reading is an integral part of the workshop as is short prompted writing and discussion.

Participants will gain access to our online resources prior to the start of the workshop where all information necessary to prepare for the weekend is provided, including literary texts, film, visual art, and seminar articles in the field of narrative medicine by leading educators.

The Workshop live content will be held on Friday between 5:00pm-8:00p, Saturday between 9:30a-5p and Sunday between 9:30a-4p (all times Eastern Daylight Time).