An Experiential Course in Reflective Writing: Creative Narratives to Promote Whole Health in Our Patients and Ourselves

The course will open with brief introductions from each of the facilitators sharing their own ‎narratives of how they came to do the writing they do in the way they do it. Discussion of how ‎participants might enhance their own practices similarly will follow. The facilitators will then lead ‎participants through a series of exercises in which they will be invited to respond to curated ‎literature prompts with the goal of gaining access to their creative selves in real time. There will be ‎opportunities to share these new musings as participants feel comfortable doing so. We expect ‎everyone to leave the course with a heightened awareness of how reflective writing can feed the ‎personal and enrich the professional in elevating satisfaction and meaning in the practice of C/L ‎Psychiatry. All that is required is that you bring a notebook, a writing utensil, and a willingness to ‎try something new!‎