Narrative Healthcare

Medicine Beyond Medication: Narrative Healthcare Symposium

When: October 18–19, 2019

Who: Physicians, surgeons, nurses, advanced practice providers, social workers…

Where: Asheville, North Carolina

Keynote: Dr. Rita Charon, M.D. PhD., Distinguished Jefferson Scholar of the National Endowment for the Humanities, “The Humanities Have What Medicine Needs”. A Harvard-trained physician with a PhD in English literature, Charon is the Founder of the Program in Narrative Medicine, the founding Chair and Professor of Medical Humanities and Ethics, and Professor of Medicine at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

Details and Tickets: http://mahec.net/narrative

In this symposium, discover how creative and reflective writing supplement clinical practice and care. Hear stories from a panel including surgeons, general practitioners, nurses, social workers, and chaplains how narrative practice in healthcare has provided additional support, both for themselves and their patients, clients, and practitioners. Following the panel, write with practitioners within your discipline, applying data-evidence based methods: Reflective Writing, Expressive Writing, and Poetic Medicine. Share your own stories in a supportive environment very different from any you have encountered, where listening, appreciation, and encouragement balance out the pressures and quandaries of today’s medical field.

Hosted by: Laura Hope-Gill

With: Lenoir-Rhyne University Asheville, North Carolina Humanities Council, Western Carolina Medical Society Foundation, MAHEC Continuing Education, Climate Listening Project

The world has changed so healthcare must change. We can only discover through listening. We need to tell a new story about medicine — of humanistic healthcare that heals our healers and our communities. Learn more.