Registration for this class will CLOSE on October 5, 2023
Conversations Inviting Change: Narrative Based Practice in Health Care
Instructors: Dr. John Launer, Diarmuid Denneny
Where: Online
When: 2023. October 9th - 12th inclusive, then 16th & 18th (six sessions)
Time: 9am - 11am Pacific Daylight Time (check your time zone here)
Fee: $600
Class size: Limited to 20 participants
Class doesn’t include CEU’s but participants will receive a certificate they can submit to their boards.
This course will not be recorded.
Refund policy: Full refund (minus processing fee) if need to cancel by Oct. 7th. After Oct. 7th, credit only for use on future San Diego Pain Summit events.
Conversations Inviting Change (CIC) arises from the simple idea that everyone – whether as a patient, client, learner or colleague – can benefit from telling stories about their experiences and being skillfully questioned about these. This highly interactive and engaging course will offer a general introduction to CIC as well as a focus on pain and symptoms without clear explanations.
CIC can be applied in:
Person-centred consultations with individuals and families
Supervision, coaching and mentoring
Team development and facilitation
Conflict resolution
Training in reflective practice and professionalism
Action learning sets and collaborative learning groups
Leadership and management
Creating a culture of respect
CIC is effective in helping people to move on when they feel stuck, and ideal for difficult or challenging encounters. It is especially effective when professionals need to balance attentiveness to the client’s story with considerations of safety, quality of care, best evidence, or statutory roles.
CIC is based on narrative studies, communication theory and systems thinking. It was first developed at the Tavistock Clinic in London by John Launer and Caroline Lindsey as an approach to healthcare consultations and peer supervision. Since then, it has been introduced to many thousands of people in the United Kingdom and around the world through workshops and short courses, as well as a longer course for becoming a CIC trainer. It has been taught in the National Health Service in England for over twenty years for training health professionals in supervision skills.
You can learn more about CIC including podcasts, videos and publications at www.conversationsinvitingchange.com
Who can benefit from training in CIC?
CIC will benefit all health and social care professionals, and their teams and organizations.
What past participants have said about this course:
“I have learned about listening with curiosity, about styles of questions which encourage the narrative, about needing to resist focusing on solutions and about finding the movement in stories.”
“Great to see the model working in action. Listening and letting the conversation go where it goes. Letting go of the need to fix or solve things (learning to feel more comfortable with ambiguity).”
“Something changed radically over the last week or two since starting this course…
I suddenly realized that my practice had got so prescriptive and limited – I know this is not unusual given the extraordinary circumstances ( ie pandemic) but even so I realized that something vital and intrinsic to me had been lost – ie a sense of perspective, an awareness of the bigger picture and my sense of curiosity.”
“Doing the course has reawakened my sense of curiosity and creativity and meeting and learning from some of the extraordinary participants on the course and of course John and the tutors has completely opened my eyes and reinvigorated me!”
“Actually getting to practice the principles was really useful so I have a clearer idea of how I’d start to use the skills in real life rather than just the theory.”
“I feel as though I have permission to be more myself, and to trust the patient to find a lot of the answers for us.”
“I really enjoyed the course, really enjoyed the opportunity to join from overseas and really enjoyed meeting people from diverse clinical backgrounds.”
Dr. John Launer is a doctor, educator and award-winning writer. With a dual professional background as a family physician and family therapist, as well a degree in English literature, John’s interests range across the borders of health care, systems thinking, and the humanities. They include narrative medicine, clinical supervision for the health professions and team development in the health service. John has taught and lectured extensively around the UK, Europe and the world, including the USA, Canada, Australia, Israel, Palestine and Japan.
John has written and edited ten books including ‘Narrative-Based Practice in Health and Social Care: Conversations Inviting Change” (Routledge 2018) and “How Not To Be A Doctor: And Other Essays” (Duckworth 2018). He writes a regular column for the British Medical Journal.
John is lead for educational innovation in primary care in the National Health Service in London. His other posts include honorary associate professor of primary care at University College London, honorary lifetime consultant at the Tavistock Clinic, faculty member at ISTUD Business School in Milan and founding president of the Association of Narrative Practice in Healthcare.
Diarmuid Denneny is past chair of the Physiotherapy Pain Association in the UK. For many years he was lead physiotherapist at the Pain Management Centre (PMC), the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, University College London Hospitals. Clinically he is an advanced practitioner physiotherapist and independent prescriber.
Diarmuid is currently on a doctoral fellowship at Brunel University, UK, and is also lead physio for the online Leva pain clinic. He has published peer reviewed articles relating to physiotherapy practice in pain. Diarmuid was a member of the guideline development committee for the NICE chronic primary pain guidelines (NG193). He also has interests in the non-medical management of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome.
Diarmuid is a member of the organising committees for the Footsteps Festival (a co-produced collective for people living with pain) and the Global Alliance for Partners for Pain Advocacy (GAPPA). He has an interest in communication skills development and psychologically informed practice. Additionally, he is interested in the role for physiotherapists in supporting people who have pain and medication related issues.