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ARTS AS RESEARCH ZOOM SEMINARS
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Arts as Research is a series of 2 sessions (1 Fall, 1 Winter) exploring arts-based research methodologies and their value in healthcare.
Ronna Bloom Presents Awake at Work: Writing into Presence
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In this session, use writing to explore how simply showing up and attending to your own experience is the starting point for attending to others.
CPD thumbnail Self-Compassion and Self-Empathy: Mindfulness Meditation in Life and Professional Practice
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This two-part workshop explores different aspects of mindfulness and approaches to reflection, well-being and resilience.
CPD thumbnail Foundation in Narrative Based Medicine (Certificate Program)
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Jointly led by an expert in narrative-based medicine and an accomplished writer, both of whom have extensive experience working with health professionals, this intensive program is taught in two parts.
CPD thumbnail An Introduction to Visual Narrative: An Art Gallery Workshop
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This workshop introduces learners to a spectrum of ways of engaging with visual art in an art museum context.
Fall Term 2022: ART IS PATIENT at the AGO
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People are complicated. Art is difficult. They’re both challenging: often opaque and multi-layered and hard to read. People and artworks might show up with their labels front-and-centre, but what do labels really tell us?
CPD thumbnail Advanced Creative and Reflective Writing Workshop for Health Practitioners
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This four-session series is designed for writers with some experience seeking to improve their creative and reflective writing skills.
Ronna Bloom Presents I Start The Day… a writing & reflection session 
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How do you start the day? Trepidation? Curiosity? This workshop offers an opportunity to expore and express what it’s like to engage purposefully and with intention in your work as a health care professional considering the constraints of the health care system and the world as it is.
CPD thumbnail Practicing Narrative-Based Medicine in Real Life – Half-Day Master Class
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Taught by Allan Peterkin and Michael Roberts, this half-day master class offers a deeper dive into the practical applications of Narrative-Based Medicine for your patients, for your practice, and for yourself.

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  • film studies
  • narrative medicine/writing
  • music and medicine
  • visual arts | theatre
  • bioethics and philosophy
  • history of medicine/Toronto Health History
  • mindfulness and wellness

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