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Creating Space 12 Conference Announcement April 21-23 Calgary

Creating Space 12 Conference Announcement April 21-23 Calgary 🗓

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Creating Space 12

Thursday to Saturday, April 21 to 23, 2022

Health Sciences Centre

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Canada’s Annual National Health Humanities Conference

Theme 2022  All Our Communities: Relationships and Relationality in Healthcare

Going hybrid

We have planned substantial in-person activities and will simultaneously provide virtual access to all presentations and workshops for both participants and speakers.  Although unlikely, we are prepared to pivot to a fully virtual conference should world events require.

Keynote Speakers

Jennifer Buchanan, MBA, MTA.  Tune In: Find the Music you Need Amongst all the Noise

Jennifer Buchanan’s company, JB Music Therapy (JBMT), has been instrumental in the implementation of hundreds of music therapy programs throughout Canada since 1991, and has been thrice nominated for the Community Impact Award by the Calgary Chamber of Commerce. JBMT is a team of 18 Certified Music Therapists (MTAs) serving all ages in medical, education and community care settings. In her latest book, Wellness, Wellplayed: The Power of a Playlist, Jennifer offers readers an accessible and approachable path to crafting a healing and helpful soundscape all their own.

Joel Carter, MD, Interdisciplinary Artist.  The Art & Sacred Space of Our Stories: The Search for Balance and Connection in an Age of Chaos & Upheaval

Joel Carter is a Canadian Palliative Care Specialist, as well as an author, speaker, storyteller and artist. Carter transitioned to Palliative Care in 2002 after receiving a Fellowship from the Archibald Bush Foundation to pursue interests in End of Life Medicine and Physician Leadership. He completed his fellowship at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard University. He practices in Minneapolis where he speaks on topics related to quality of life, lessons his patients have shared with him on life’s meaning and purpose, and the integration of creative art processes with healing arts practice. Joel was a featured speaker at the Winnipeg TEDx ‘Forward Think’ June 2017 conference and was named by Minnesota Monthly as Best Doctor 2015 through 2021. His book, Rockpeople – Beyond Chester Creek, which explores life’s depths, the quest for balance, and the broken parts of the human journey, remains a bone fide regional hit.

Events Friday & Saturday

  • Presentations: 22
  • Panels & Workshops: 5
  • Art works displayed: 30
  • Special session: The Editors Are In
  • Musical performance
  • Opportunities to network

Canadian Association for Health Humanities (CAHH) Annual General Meeting

An opportunity for you to influence the growth and direction of our national body.  Hear about what we are doing and planning.  Offer feedback.  Nominate and vote for open positions on our Advisory Council.

Music hands-on small group event Thursday April 21 Evening

This is an in-person workshop for participants with a special interest regarding music in health humanities.  The format requires us to limit the number of spaces.  If you are interested in attending, please email splamond@ucalgary.ca and copy michaelf@ualberta.ca to describe your connection to music and health humanities.  We will then confirm your attendance as space allows!

Conference registration here

  • Fees include membership in CAHH for 2022.
    • Clinician or Academic $250
    • Non-MD Health Professional $150
    • Artists and Learners, $25
    • Fees may be waived if you are in financial straits. Please contact Planning Committee.
  • Conference Proceedings will be distributed to registrants, CAHH members, and published on the CAHH website. It will not be indexed (e.g., Web of Science, Scopus).
  • Application for Credits for professional development through the Canadian College of Family Physicians and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada is in progress.

Questions?  Email to creatingspace12calgary@gmail.com

The Canadian Association for Health Humanities exists to promote the exchange of ideas and critical dialogue among scholars and practitioners, as well as foster collaborative explorations nationally and internationally. Through meetings, publications and related activities, CAHH seeks to facilitate initiatives as well as interdisciplinary, cross-professional inquiry into research and educational practices relevant to the health humanities.

Creating Space 12 organizing committee

Bernice Fonseka, Graham McCaffrey, Heather Huston, Janet de Groot, Jennifer Leason, Laurie Pereles, Martina Kelly, Mary Wallis, Michael Frishkopf, Oswald Chen, Pam Brett-MacLean, Stephanie Plamondon. Tinu Ruparell, Tom Rosenal

April 6, 2022 - Mentoring and Editing in Poetry

April 6, 2022 – Mentoring and Editing in Poetry 🗓

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POETRY MONTH EVENT

Event title:

Mentoring and Editing in Poetry: An Hour of Reading and Conversation between Tolu Oloruntoba and Jim Johnstone

Scheduled event date: 4/6/2022

Poets: Tolu Oloruntoba and Jim Johnstone

Host: Shane Neilson, Team Narrative member of  the Health Arts and Humanities Program at the University of Toronto

Eventbrite Link:  https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/mentoring-and-editing-in-poetry-an-hour-of-reading-and-conversation-tickets-292217178447

Description: Tolu Oloruntoba’s The Junta of Happenstance was awarded the current Governor-General’s Award Winner for Poetry. Jim Johnstone, a noted poet himself, whose Infinity Mirror was just released from Vehicule Press, served as mentor and editor for Oloruntoba at Palimpsest Press. Both poets have experienced periods of illness in their lives. This evening will feature readings from Oloruntoba (who is also a medical doctor) and Johnstone, as well as a conversation held between each other about editorial process and illness. The kind of intimate conversational space created is uncommon in Canadian literature. Time will be preserved for audience questions for two of the most exciting poets currently writing in Canada. 

Sponsors: League of Canadian Poets, Canada Council, Ontario Arts Council, Health Arts and Humanities Program at the University of Toronto, and the Ontario D/deaf/HoH, Disabled, Mad and Neuroatypical Poetics Festival.

 

 

 

Resilience in Practice - Starting March 12

Resilience in Practice – Starting March 12 🗓

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A Narrative-based Exploration of Resilience from the CPD

Resilience in Practice – Starting March 12

There are limited spots available for “Resilience in Practice” – a new workshop series designed to explore and understand personal and professional resiliency using narrative-based medicine approaches. This series will take place over five sessions from 10am – 12pm on Saturday mornings from March 12 – July 9, 2022.

Using the work (and wisdom) of five contemporary clinician writers, learners will:

  • Explore clinician memoirs as a foundation for understanding different experiences of resilience.
  • Enhance their understanding of personal and professional resiliency.
  • Deepen their skills as close readers, writers and listeners through practical exercises.

Book excerpts and themes will be used as a springboard for reflections and writing in each session. Come to deepen your learning, enhance your creativity, or find inspiration. Note: The memoirs are a resource to explore these themes and pre-reading is not required.

The group is facilitated by Karen Gold, a narrative medicine facilitator, social worker, and educator.

See the program website for complete details.

Registration link: https://facmed.registration.med.utoronto.ca/portal/events/reg/participantTypeSelection.do?method=load&entityId=3000060&utm_source=Discover&utm_medium=CPD+Website&utm_campaign=CPD+Events+Page

If anyone requires registration assistance, they should email: facmed.registration@utoronto.ca

Continuing Professional Development
Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
500 University Avenue, 6th floor, Toronto, ON, M5G 1V7
416-978-2719 | monica.cribari@utoronto.ca
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Comics for science translation lecture Tuesday Feb 22nd

Comics for science translation lecture Tuesday Feb 22nd 🗓

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Comics for science translation – public talk Tues. Feb. 22, 2022

Interested in how to expand the impact of your scientific findings to a larger audience? Wondering how to communicate your research to policymakers, patients, and beyond?

Drawing from the burgeoning field of graphic medicine, in this seminar, we will discuss the value of comics as a form of knowledge translation and how they may be useful to communicate and support policy and health services research.

Talk: Comics for Science Translation: Policy, research, story

Date: Feb. 22, 2022

Time: 12:00 to 1:00 pm EST

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/comics-for-science-translation-policy-research-story-tickets-260422148657

MINDFULNESS TRAINING FOR U Toronto RESIDENTS AND FELLOWS

MINDFULNESS TRAINING FOR U Toronto RESIDENTS AND FELLOWS 🗓

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For Residents and Fellows at the University of Toronto – SPOTS ARE LIMITED REGISTER NOW !
sponsored by WWW.HEALTH-HUMANITIES.COM

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Emotion-Focused Mindfulness Wellness Training

Rodelyn Wisco, MSW, RSW

Format:                                              Biweekly online sessions

Target Audience:                               Post-MD, Residents and Fellows, U of T

Dates:                                                Mar 28, Apr 11, and Apr 25, 2022

Times:                                                Monday evenings, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Number of sessions:                          3

Length of sessions:                            2 hours

Maximum number of participants:     10 (Spots offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Make sure you can commit to ALL 3 sessions before registering)

ZOOM DETAILS TO FOLLOW

To Register, contact :
rodelynwiscomsw@gmail.com

Emotion-Focused Mindfulness (EFM) wellness training cultivates gentle curiosity and self-compassion to better navigate issues and core concerns and develop more genuine ways of relating to oneself, others, and the world. Sessions include talks, meditation, journaling, and sharing, reflecting on and exploring meditation experience. Participation involves a willingness to share one’s own difficult emotions and thoughts with colleagues in a safe group setting.

In EFM, the facilitator introduces and models for participants how to create a safe space for inner work by cultivating self-compassionate awareness. Emotional processing is facilitated by orienting people to attend to their bodies to become aware of, allow, experience, accept, and transform their emotional experience, both in meditation, and afterwards in further exploration with the facilitator. Emotional processing is a combination of attending inwardly to and reflecting on one’s bodily-felt experience and emotions, to address and resolve inner conflicts and core issues, and better navigate life situations. After meditation, participants journal what they recall happened in meditation to better acknowledge and deepen their emotional experience. In addition, participants take turns describing their meditation experience, with the facilitator listening to their whole meditation narrative and then responding to whatever seems most alive and poignant in the moment, and empathically exploring this with them.

Learning goals:                                            

  • Develop a more genuine relationship with self and others, deepening therapeutic presence with patients
  • Cultivate compassion, empathy and responsiveness toward your own and others’ experience
  • Learn calming, grounding and self-soothing techniques
  • Develop own meditation practice at home
  • Integrate empirically-based Emotion-Focused Therapy experiential and emotional processing into meditation and life

Rodelyn Wisco, MSW, RSW, is a Mindfulness and Wellness Clinical Educator for the Health Arts and Humanities Program, University of Toronto.  She works closely with Bill Gayner, MSW, RSW, the developer of Emotion-Focused Mindfulness Therapy (EFMT), was the Principal Investigator for a study determining the feasibility of EFMT with people living with anxiety and depression, and has presented locally and internationally on EFMT.  Rodelyn supports health care professionals with the development of their mindfulness practices and has cultivated her meditation practice for close to thirty years.

Rodelyn is a Registered Social Worker, Psychotherapist, in private practice who provides individual Emotion-Focused Therapy and EFMT, Emotion-Focused Family therapy, and EFMT professional training. For 20 years, she worked in multiple health care settings, including family medicine, ambulatory psychiatry, and children’s mental health to support the mental health of children, families, and adults.  She also trained family medicine and psychiatric residents for 10 years first at St. Joseph’s Health Centre and then at Mount Sinai Hospital in communication skills, counselling skills, and behavioural strategies.

Rodelyn Wisco, MSW, RSW
rodelynwiscomsw@gmail.com

Be Good to Yourself, Whoever You Are

Be Good to Yourself, Whoever You Are 🗓

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As part of The Winter Solstice Series
curated by Hard Feelings, I will be offering the workshop

Be Good to Yourself, Whoever You Are

Date and time

Tue, March 1, 2022, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EST

Often in work, and in life, energy moves towards projects and people but there’s little left for your own restoration. In this workshop, through the use of poems and prompts, you will be nudged into writing and reflecting on what sustains you, what you love and what you need. Take this time for yourself as a flicker of possibility of how you might take time for yourself in general.

This session is part of the Winter Solace FREE online series. For individuals who are feeling isolated, struggling to find supports, and interested in developing new ways of coping.

CRITERIA FOR PARTICIPATION:

• Self-identify as financially vulnerable

• In need of mental health and/or well being supports

• Live in the GTA

• Ages 18+

Register Here.

For info on other sessions in the series, contact Kate Scowen

MMM February Rounds

MMM February Rounds 🗓

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February 24th at 630pm EST———–

Video thrilled Mixed Media Bards …

well, who’d a thunk you could have this much fun watching music vids?!

Faculty, students, residents, come one come all; upon unanimous request, we take our 2nd dive into Music in 2022 but with the same theme:

What is your favorite Music Video and why??? 

What are the standout vids that blow your mind, sometimes elevating an average song further than possibly imagined? Hello, MADONNA, Michael Jackson, Red Hot Chili Peppers 😱

Please bring a favorite video or two for sharing on February 24th at 6:30pm.

We are not big on rules but in the interest of respect for all present we do ask the following:

  1. No long videos: keep them at 2-3 minutes if possible. We would prefer you bring two or three brief ones rather than one long one; that way most people get to share
  2. Sharing YouTube clips works best but please check the clip beforehand for AV quality, especially volume
  3. Be prepared to discuss why this video and / or song is important: when did you first see it? Who were you with? Why does it speak to you? What do you know about how it was made?
  4. No violence, vulgarity or overt sexuality: this is not an invitation to make people uncomfortable. While we are not in the business of censorship, we will immediately shut down & remove inappropriate material and those responsible.
  5. As always, be respectful; all choices and reasons for such are valid and welcome.

Hi there,

You are invited to a Zoom meeting.

When: Feb 24, 2022 06:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Register in advance for this meeting:

https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpcuihrjwtE9AHX9BQMYoY5pu-lBZVyA9c

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Mixed Media & Medicine. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Offers a novel discussion space for group learning, reflection and new modes of presentation that are open to all medical learners – student, faculty & staff alike. From our own UofT literary journal ARS MEDICA (https://ars-medica.ca/index.php/journal) to Zine Archives in Graphic Medicine (https://www.graphicmedicine.org/comic-type/zine/) and everything in between (Poetry, Comics, YOUTUBES, Monologues, Short Short Stories you name it), we are excited to provide a safe space for participants to discuss short(ish) representations that address spirit, wellness, resilience , consciousness, and reflection. This is an inclusive environment to which ALL are welcomed and equally valued. Please spread the word amongst all people medical – students, faculty, colleagues, tutors, professors, residents, fellows, undergrads, postgrads.

utoronto.zoom.us

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Why not register for the rest of the year and add us to your calendar?

See you on the dancefloor!

Conor & Jane, mmm

Plague Plays

Plague Plays 🗓

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OPEN TO STUDENTS FROM ALL CLINICAL DISCIPLINES

Plague Plays

If you are looking for a place to put your thoughts about the life we are living in medicine now join me for an informal reader’s theatre, called Plague Plays. Reader’s Theatre is a great way to interact with one another, a key text of our times, and themes raised therein. No pre-work is required although options will be provided.

We’ll have the option to read the original version of Camus’s The Plague side by side with a faithful dramatic rendering by the British Playwright Neil Bartlett. We’ll read the dramatic version on zoom together over four sessions.

We’ll try to strike a balance between literary and personal engagement with the text. In chaotic times, texts such as this can help us to find focus, meaning and respite.

We will offer optional writing prompts & exercises for those who are interested.

Dates and Times:
Mondays Feb 21, 28 and March 7, 14th  2022 from 7-8:30pm

Register for this course:
https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwodemorD0oGtBu7TJ4GF7gt3E4AdBHXcws

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Materials (please obtain your own copy).

1. Camus, The Plague. Stuart Gilbert Trans. Vintage International Edition.
2. Neil Bartlett, The Plague adaptation for the stage. Oberon Books London 2017.

You should obtain your own copy of Camus’s The Plague. We will distribute the script for reading together prior to the first session.

Suvendrini Lena, MD MPH FRCPC Neurology CSCN EEG
Katie van Kampen, MS2, BHSc

Dates and Times:

Mondays Feb 21, 28 and March 7 and 14th 2022 from 7-8:30pm on ZOOM

Mindfest 2022 - March 5-8, 2022

Mindfest 2022 – March 5-8, 2022 🗓

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Join us at Mindfest on March 5-8th !

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March 5 to 8, 2022
Free mental health presentations and workshops delivered on Zoom

Join us and share Mindfest with your patients, colleagues, and communities!

All are welcome at this free event! Experts from the University of Toronto Department of Psychiatry and beyond present on topics including the impact of the pandemic on child and youth mental health, strategies for self-care, leadership in the face of marginalization, and much more.

View the sessions and register now

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If A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words, then videos ... MMM goes MTV

If A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words, then videos … MMM goes MTV 🗓

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Faculty, students, residents, come one come all. We invite you to join us for our first foray into Music this year but with a twist, what is your favorite Music Video and why???

What are the standout vids that blew your mind, sometimes elevating an average song further than possibly imagined? Hello, MADONNA, 😱

Please bring a favorite video or two for sharing on January 27th at 6:30pm.

We are not big on rules but in the interest of respect for all present we do ask the following:

  1. No long videos: keep them at 2-3 minutes if possible. We would prefer you bring two or three brief ones rather than one long one; that way most people get to share
  2. Sharing YouTube clips works best but please check the clip beforehand for AV quality, especially volume
  3. Be prepared to discuss why this video and / or song is important: when did you first see it? Who were you with? Why does it speak to you? What do you know about how it was made?
  4. No violence, vulgarity or overt sexuality: this is not an invitation to make people uncomfortable. While we are not in the business of censorship, we will immediately shut down & remove inappropriate material and those responsible.
  5. As always, be respectful; all choices and reasons for such are valid and welcome.

Register in advance for this meeting:

https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpcuihrjwtE9AHX9BQMYoY5pu-lBZVyA9c

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Mixed Media & Medicine. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Offers a novel discussion space for group learning, reflection and new modes of presentation that are open to all medical learners – student, faculty & staff alike. From our own UofT literary journal ARS MEDICA (https://ars-medica.ca/index.php/journal) to Zine Archives in Graphic Medicine (https://www.graphicmedicine.org/comic-type/zine/) and everything in between (Poetry, Comics, YOUTUBES, Monologues, Short Short Stories you name it), we are excited to provide a safe space for participants to discuss short(ish) representations that address spirit, wellness, resilience , consciousness, and reflection. This is an inclusive environment to which ALL are welcomed and equally valued. Please spread the word amongst all people medical – students, faculty, colleagues, tutors, professors, residents, fellows, undergrads, postgrads.utoronto.zoom.us

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Why not register for the rest of the year and add us to your calendar?

See you on the dancefloor!

Conor & Jane, mmm

Postcards from the Edge: Addressing Compassion/Covid Fatigue in Note Form

Postcards from the Edge: Addressing Compassion/Covid Fatigue in Note Form 🗓

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A workshop for Medical Students, Residents and Health Care Professionals

Postcards from the Edge: Addressing Compassion/Covid Fatigue in Note Form

Perhaps you are too overwhelmed to read this. Let’s be brief: this workshop will address the impacts on you — physical, emotional, professional — of living through Covid while caring for human suffering. In notes. A creative writing workshop. With other hesitant people. Using poems as guides. Have a rest; write something. No experience necessary.

Goals
— Learn five rules for writing that can be used to reflect on one’s work, relationships, and life
— Engage with poetry as a tool for understanding and expressing challenges
— Increase awareness of the impact of the professional on the personal, and the personal on the professional
— Explore poetry and writing as practices of self-care

Time and place: 
Tuesday February 15, 5:30PM-7PM,  You will receive a zoom link when you register. 

Workshop leader: 
Ronna Bloom is a poet and teacher. Her most recent book, The More, was long listed for the City of Toronto Book Award. Her poems have been recorded by the CNIB and translated into Spanish, Bangla, and Chinese. She has collaborated with health care professionals, filmmakers, academics, students, spiritual leaders, and architects. A frequent guest in the faculties of Nursing, Medicine, Public Health, as well at teaching hospitals, she brings 25 years of psychotherapy practice to her work as a poet and facilitator.

Ronna developed the first Poet in Residence program at Sinai Health which ran from 2012-2019. She is currently Poet in Community to the University of Toronto and Poet in Residence in the Health, Arts and Humanities Programme. Her “Spontaneous Poetry Booth” and “RX for Poetry” have been featured in hospitals and fundraisers in Canada and abroad. Her chapbook, Who is your mercy contact? will be published in March.

Ronna Bloom, M.ED
Poet in Residence, HAH, University of Toronto
Poet in Community, University of Toronto
www.ronnabloom.com 

To register: Open to all U of T Medical Students, Residents, Physicians and Learners from other disciplines. Register here.

Let's Make A Scene: Mixed Media & Medicine Returns to the Movies

Let’s Make A Scene: Mixed Media & Medicine Returns to the Movies 🗓

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Faculty, students, residents, come one come all. We invite you to join us for an exciting second foray into Film this year. People often discuss their favorite films but less frequently we hear conversation around those Scenes that Mean the Most To Us. What are the standout scenes that shaped your life, contribute to how you engage with your work, your life, your family? Please bring a favorite scene or two for sharing on November 25th at 6:30pm.

Outstanding contributions last time round comprised scenes films such as The Diving Bell & The Butterfly, The Theory of Everything, and The Night of The Hunter; what would you like to see this time out?

We are not big on rules but in the interest of respect for all present we do ask the following:

  1. No long scenes: keep them under 2 minutes. We would prefer you bring two or three brief scenes rather than one long one; that way most people get to share
  2. Sharing YouTube clips works best but please check the clip beforehand for AV quality
  3. Be prepared to discuss why this scene is important: when did you first see it? Who were you with? Why does it speak to you? What do you know about how it was made?
  4. No violence or vulgarity: this is not an invitation to make people uncomfortable. While we are not in the business of censorship, we will immediately shut down & remove inappropriate material and those responsible.
  5. As always, be respectful; all choices and reasons for such are valid and welcome.

Register in advance for this meeting:

https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpcuihrjwtE9AHX9BQMYoY5pu-lBZVyA9c

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Mixed Media & Medicine. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.Offers a novel discussion space for group learning, reflection and new modes of presentation that are open to all medical learners – student, faculty & staff alike. From our own UofT literary journal ARS MEDICA (https://ars-medica.ca/index.php/journal) to Zine Archives in Graphic Medicine (https://www.graphicmedicine.org/comic-type/zine/) and everything in between (Poetry, Comics, YOUTUBES, Monologues, Short Short Stories you name it), we are excited to provide a safe space for participants to discuss short(ish) representations that address spirit, wellness, resilience , consciousness, and reflection. This is an inclusive environment to which ALL are welcomed and equally valued. Please spread the word amongst all people medical – students, faculty, colleagues, tutors, professors, residents, fellows, undergrads, postgrads.

utoronto.zoom.us

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Why not register for the rest of the year and add us to your calendar?

See you at the movies!

Conor & Jane, mmm