This intensive weekend workshop, organized together with core faculty from Columbia University’s Narrative Medicine program, offers rigorous skill-building in narrative competence. Participants will learn effective techniques for attentive listening, adopting others’ perspectives, accurate representation and reflective reasoning. Small group seminars offer first-hand experience in close-reading, reflective writing, and autobiographical exercises. Participants will receive a packet of readings prior to the week- end that will include seminar articles in the filed of narrative medicine by leading educators. The target audience is health care professionals and scholars in- terested in narrative medicine.

The plenary lectures are open to the public. The small group seminars are reserved for registered workshop participants.