As health practitioners we write stories every day. The medical record allows us to interpret our patients’ stories and document our medicalised response, but it has limited scope to allow us to express our own personal experience. Professional isolation, burnout, and compassion fatigue may occur if we do not process our responses to what is experienced at work. This light-hearted and fun workshop aims to help transform challenging patients into interesting people, and difficult situations into meaningful experiences. Participants will experience the use of reflective and expressive writing to help manage some of the more challenging aspects of their working lives, and to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a health practitioner. Bring humility, a sense of curiosity, and a pen. Potentially leave with:

A tool for relieving, rather than re-living, life’s difficulties.
A tool for building compassion.
Re-ignition of a (potentially lost) passion for creativity