(15) The Power of the Narrative [1.00 hr CE
Credit]
Presenter:
Peter Guber
Objectives: Participants completing this
presentation will be able to:
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- Recognize the stories that are playing within and around you.
- Understand the power of the oral narrative and use it to more fully understand the experience it conveys
- Understand why and how the story you continue to tell yourself can significantly affect your physical, mental, and emotional health and well being.
Description: In this entertaining and
informative conversation with Dr. David Bresler, Peter
Guber reveals the power that exists within any narrative
story. The story contains critical information not only
about events that occurred, but also about beliefs,
attitudes, emotions, drives, personalities, and a host of
psychological dynamics that engage and move people. When
health providers look at lab studies and scans without
listening to the story that their patients bring, they can
miss critical information about the etiology of the problem
and how to treat it.
Likewise, when they prescribe treatment, they should use
the power of the narrative as a tool in order to motivate
their patients to have greater compliance with treatment
recommendations.
Most
significantly, when we play stories in our imagination, our
body is listening. When we are anxious and worry, it's
important to remember that its our organs who are in the
audience and as they listen, they prepare themselves for
disaster, whether they need to or not. No wonder they can
get burned out over time. Peter Guber also discusses ways
to re-write the negative stories that can play in our
mind.