Our storytelling and listening program offers a safe place to record your story and make healthcare more humane.
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Our storytelling and listening program offers a sacred place to record your story and make healthcare more humane.
Share your storyWe started Hear Me Now in 2016, at first with StoryCorps. Hear Me Now has the largest library of recordings of any healthcare system. Hear Me Now celebrates diversity, equity and inclusion to promote trust, understanding and healing.
Storytelling has been an important part of Providence’s culture for more than 160 years. The founding Sisters used storytelling to spread the mission of service to all, especially the poor and vulnerable. Hear Me Now is part of this tradition.
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"Trauma is a communal injury and must be healed in community," says Dr. Punch. "The medical world is missing out because it's abstracting this one tiny part of it." He says the treatment that's needed to heal a bullet wound is not happening in hospitals.
Storytelling and listening are keys to healthcare delivery based on emotional, spiritual, and psychosocial needs, as well as medical ones. For patients, storytelling and listening can help relieve stress, build resiliency, and offer a source of empowerment. For providers, storytelling and listening can enhance empathy, cultural literacy, and ease moral duress. Join experts from StoryCorps and Providence to discover how storytelling programs have moved the needle on creating cultures of healing.
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