A Conversation with Lisa Richardson
Lisa Richardson shares insights from her years of experience in the health humanities and invites us to expand our perspective on different ways of knowing, seeing, and communicating.
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Recent Articles
NBM Lab Featured in Mind Over Matter Magazine
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Upreet Dhaliwal on Ethics and Curricular Competencies of a Poetry Workshop for Health Professionals
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Winter/Spring 2025 Literary Lunch Hours: Narrative Technologies
Monday, January 13, 2025
Lab Offerings
Foundational Certificate in Narrative-Based Medicine (Certificate Program)
Fall 2024, Winter & Spring 2025 Registration Open
Dive into the principles and practices of Narrative-Based Medicine in this unique certificate program. Join learners from across Canada and around the world.
Creative and Reflective Writing Workshop for Health Practitioners
Starts Tuesday, April 22, 2025 - Registration Now Open
This four-session series is designed for health practitioners seeking to improve their creative and reflective writing skills.
Narrative Possibilities in Healthcare: One-Day Retreat with the NBM Lab
Saturday, May 3, 2025 - Registration Now Open
Immerse yourself in transformative narrative-based medicine methods and practices this spring. Explore how to meaningfully apply a variety of creative modalities in your current practice, work, and projects.
All Narrative-Based Medicine Offerings
Browse our workshops, multi-session series, and activities taking place throughout the year. Part of the Advanced Certificate, our stand-alone offerings can also be completed on their own.
Creative Work
Chris Kinchlea Advocates for Change and Shares Experiences on Daniel’s Disease Blog
Foundational Certificate alum Chris Kinchlea uses narrative to promote change and advocate for patients with rare auto-inflammatory diseases Read More
Fall in the Foothills by Paula Holmes-Rodman
Part of Case Repertory, this original piece by Advanced Certificate learner Paula Holmes-Rodman reflects on recurrence, caregiving, and possession. Read More
Conversion: On Reading Heaney’s “Mid-Term Break” by Conor Mc Donnell
Foundational Certificate alum Conor Mc Donnell examines the themes of grief and memory in Seamus Heaney's poem. Read More
The Rejected Pre-Med Podcast with Valeria Rusnak
Foundational Certificate alum Valeria Rusnak explores the ways that failure can be transformed into personal growth in new podcast project. Read More
"Journeys to Medicine: The Synapse Podcast" by Ian McCoog
A podcast project by Foundational Certificate alum shares experiences that shaped careers in medicine. Read More
NBM Talks Podcast
A Conversation with Lisa Richardson
February 24, 2025
Lisa Richardson shares insights from her years of experience in the health humanities and invites us to expand our perspective on different ways of knowing, seeing, and communicating.
A Conversation with Sarah de Leeuw
January 13, 2025
Writer, researcher, and professor Sarah de Leeuw joins us for a reflection on her professional journey and how she discovered the power of narrative in her own work.
A Conversation with Alisha Kaplan
October 4, 2024
Poet and NBM Lab member, Alisha Kaplan, discusses her work, narrative-based medicine teaching, writing tips, and connections to her life on Bela Farm.
A Conversation with Paula Holmes-Rodman
September 23, 2024
Foundational Certificate alum Paula Holmes-Rodman shares her journey towards narrative-based medicine and her current work in the field.
Narrative Happenings
Case Repertory: Call for Submissions
February 26, 2025
Case Repertory is a new initiative that seeks to re-imagine the traditional case report by highlighting the role of Narrative-Based Medicine in practice.
Upreet Dhaliwal on Ethics and Curricular Competencies of a Poetry Workshop for Health Professionals
February 25, 2025
Foundational Certificate alum publishes commentary reflecting on the use of poetry in health professions education.
NBM Lab Featured in Mind Over Matter Magazine
February 25, 2025
A case for narrative-based medicine in health care and beyond.
Creative and Reflective Writing Workshop for Health Practitioners
January 27, 2025