Wednesday, May 31
The Art of Attention: A Workshop for Health Care Faculty
6:00-8:00pm
Babcock Gallery, Reynolda House Museum of American Art
Held in conjunction with the exhibition, Samuel F.B. Morse’s Gallery of the Louvre and the Art of Invention, participants in this workshop will use the exhibit to explore the benefits of multiples modes of engagement and observation for clinical education.
Samuel F. B. Morse’s Gallery of the Louvre and the Art of Invention was organized by and with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art. Reynolda House is grateful for the generous sponsorship of this exhibition from Major Co-Sponsor Wake Forest Innovation Quarter and Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Contributing Sponsors the Terra Foundation for American Art and an anonymous donor, and Exhibition Partners Joia Johnson and Jeff and Sissy Whittington.
Saturday, April 29
The Narrative Playbook: The Strategic Use of Story to Improve Care, Healing, and Health: A Workshop for Clinicians Who Teach Medical Learners
9:00am-12:00pm
Northwest AHEC, McCreary Tower, 475 Deacon Boulevard
Facilitator: Laura Hope-Gill, Assistant Professor of Writing and Director of The Thomas Wolfe Center for Narrative at Lenoir-Rhyne University’s Asheville Campus
This workshop will present a sampling of methods for incorporating narrative into care, In February of 2015, Laura Hope-Gill was one of 30 thought leaders on the topic of narrative methods in healthcare, from the US and abroad, who gathered in collaboration with the Business Innovation Factory and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for a Participatory Design Workshop to share best practices, define the value proposition of narrative methods, and co-create the content and format for a healthcare resource called “The Narrative Playbook.”
This series is sponsored by the WFU Humanities Institute, made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and with support from an Engaged Humanities Grant received by the university from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Laura Hope-Gill holds an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers and is an NC Arts Fellow for Creative Nonfiction. She serves as an Assistant Professor of Writing and Director of The Thomas Wolfe Center for Narrative at Lenoir-Rhyne University’s Asheville campus – The Center for Graduate Studies of Asheville. She is also the Program Director for the Graduate Certificate in Narrative Medicine.
Friday, April 28
Narrative Medicine Lunch & Learn
12:15pm-1:15pm
525@Vine, PA Studies Classroom
The Narrative Medicine Lunch & Learn event, supported by the Humanities Institute’s Story, Health, and Healing Initiative, is a monthly, informal workshop group to introduce any interested students and faculty (pre-health, liberal arts, PA, medical, CRNA, bioethics) to the principles of narrative medicine. Workshops focus on close reading and reflective writing. Readings will be made available prior to the session, and lunch will be provided.
The facilitator for this first meeting is Aimee Mepham, MFA, Assistant Director of the WFU Humanities Institute.
Tuesday, April 18
Rounding With… Terrence Holt
5:00-7:00pm with a reception to follow
Wake Forest Biotech Place Auditorium
Terrence Holt is a writer and an internist specializing in geriatric medicine, teaching and practicing at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. He is the author of In the Valley of the Kings and Internal Medicine: A Doctor’s Stories.
Rounding With… is a series of mini-symposia, free and open to the public, in which an invited guest working in the field of narrative medicine gives a public reading and facilitates an interprofessional education workshop. This series is sponsored by the WFU Humanities Institute, made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and with support from an Engaged Humanities Grant received by the university from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Friday, February 17 and March 24
Narrative Medicine Lunch & Learn
12:15pm-1:15pm
The Narrative Medicine Lunch & Learn event, supported by the Humanities Institute’s Story, Health, and Healing Initiative, is a monthly, informal workshop group to introduce any interested students and faculty (pre-health, liberal arts, PA, medical, CRNA, bioethics) to the principles of narrative medicine. Workshops focus on close reading and reflective writing. Readings will be made available prior to the session, and lunch will be provided.
The facilitator for this first meeting is Aimee Mepham, MFA, Assistant Director of the WFU Humanities Institute.
