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Narrative Health Support Group Workshop
November 27, 2018 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Tuesday, November 27th from 5:00 – 6:30pm in the Wellness Center, Room 144Sponsored by the FHI Health Humanities Lab, the HHL Narrative Health Support Group offers Duke students who are dealing with chronic health challenges the opportunity to take part in discussion, creative writing, and storytelling in order to maximize both education and health. By “chronic health challenge,” we mean a health condition — from acne to ADD, endometriosis to depression, diabetes to cancer — that has changed your life and engaged you in a long-term trajectory of management. Facilitated by Duke medical students, meetings will include readings of texts on chronic illness, discussion and analysis of texts, and short writing prompts. A meal will be provided by Tandoor Indian.
Feedback from previous participants:
“Each of the stories were really powerful, and it was both inspiring and created a form of solidarity hearing how others have coped or failed at times to cope, with chronic illness.”
“I was surprised by how much I enjoyed the format of writing for 10-20 minutes and then immediately sharing what I wrote; this forced me to look past my self-consciousness that my stories are not good enough to be worth sharing.”
“The narrative health group reminded me that writing is an art and good art takes practice.”