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Narrative Medicine: How to Journal – March 6, 2023 (Zoom)
Alan Klass Program in Health and Humanities
This session will focus on the practice of keeping a journal as part of narrative medicine. The session will be practical, introducing attendees to writing techniques for sustainment of a regular practice with several short writing exercises. Attendees will share some of their responses.
Facilitator: Maurice Mierau
Zoom link and any handouts will be sent to attendees prior to the workshop.
Maurice Mierau’s last book was a monograph on the poetry of Patrick Friesen, How Mind and Body Move. His memoir, Detachment, won the Kobzar Literary Award, as well as the Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction. His poetry collections include Autobiographical Fictions, Fear Not, winner of the ReLit Award for Poetry, and Ending with Music. Mierau was founding editor of the Canadian fiction imprint Enfield & Wizenty, and of the online magazine Winnipeg Review. Born in Indiana, he grew up in Nigeria, Manitoba, Jamaica, Kansas, and Saskatchewan. He holds an MA in English literature and in 2019 attended a Columbia University seminar on Narrative Medicine. Mierau has worked extensively in the College of Medicine with a variety of learner groups.
Program Coordinator
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Ashley LaRosa
Ashley LaRosa Faculty Development Coordinator Office of Innovation and Scholarship in Medical Education S204, Medical Services Building, Bannatyne Campus Rady Faculty of Health Sciences Ashley.LaRosa@umanitoba.ca 204-272-3102 phone 204-272-3169 fax