healing
words
This module is dedicated to all those who, for various reasons, deal with caregivers of people living in a situation of psycho-physical distress. Narrative Medicine, Coaching, and Medical Humanities (which use art and expressive techniques as training tools) lead the participants to acquire relational, communicative, narrative, and human skills to cope with the complexity of the experience of pain and of the cure through a Method.
Tell yourself. Autobiography as self-care
The title of the proposal takes its inspiration directly from the book by Prof. Duccio Demetrio, the maximum expert of the autobiographical approach as a tool of awareness and self-care. It is a course aimed at anyone who feels the desire to talk about themselves and rebuild their own history through writing: leaving a trace, not forgetting, and filling the gaps will help being a better witness and perceive all of life’s value.
Duration: 18h
Every life deserves a novel: you tell stories, I write
As Erving Polster writes, every life deserves a novel. The proposal is aimed at anyone who always wanted to write a book about their life but never had the time or opportunity to do so. The writing of the book is entrusted to a biographer who, with communication and listening skills, starting from the narration of the protagonist, will develop an accurate narration of what was experienced and enriched by photographic material, memories, quotes, so that your life can become a novel.
Duration: 20h
Stories that cure. Narrative medicine as a cure for illness
When a disease breaks into a story, it has the devastating force of a tsunami that takes away everything that has been one’s life up to that point. Everything changes: the perception of oneself and one’s physical, psychological, and the social integrity as well as the capacity to imagine the future. Disease breaks the narrative plot of one’s existence and also the words that help to meditate, soothe wounds, and give a new sense of self under the light of what happened. This is the therapeutic value of writing and medicine narrative that cures the disease through stories.
Duration: 16h
Narrative Medicine and Medical Humanities in the training of health professionals
It is now known how much a relationship is an integral part of the treatment process and the effectiveness of clinical intervention. The purpose of this is to train health professionals in the educational, relational, communicative and narrative skills necessary to cope with the complexity of the human being and the experience of illness. The main tools of this path will be Narrative Medicine – a dimension of medicine which helps to heal through stories – and Medical Humanities, a discipline that was born in America at the end of the 1960s from the need to enrich scientific studies with humanities.
Duration: 16h
