We Are All Wounded Storytellers – Illness as Trauma, Narrative as Repair. Amherst Writers and Artists Professional Development Retreat, Ontario, 2023.

Life as collective project: Zadie Smith’s pandemic writing as relational inspiration. Taos Institute Virtual Gathering, November 2022.

Telling pandemic stories: reflections on ambiguous loss through a community arts project. Amherst Writers and Artists Professional Development Retreat, Ontario, 2020.

Poetry as a Tool for Self Compassion. Compassion-Focused Therapy Peer Supervision Group, Ottawa, 2020.

From Cultural Humility to Narrative Humility: Re-visiting narrative medicine pedagogy with Sayantani DasGupta. Creating Space Conference. Hamilton, 2019.

Shame and the Clinical Encounter: A Narrative Workshop. Guest Lecture. Gender and Health Seminar. Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, 2019.

Cautionary Tales: Understanding Family Experiences of Care through Illness Memoirs. Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital Research Rounds, Toronto, 2018.

Everything I Meant to Say: Reflective Writing as a Spiritual Practice. Canadian Association of Spiritual Care Providers Annual Conference, Ontario, 2018.

Bridging Divides in Health & Illness through First-Person Narrative: A Writing Workshop. The Power of Words, Transformative Language Arts Conference, Vermont, 2018.

Disordered: creating nuanced narratives of mothering children with disabilities through creative non-fiction. With Christine Stewart-Nunez. Mothers, Mothering and Motherhood in Literature Conference, Toronto, 2014.

Re(writing) conflict: promoting shared decision-making in clinical practice through narrative. The Examined Life Conference: Writing, Humanities and the Art of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 2014.

Insights from the Literary Imagination: Instructions on the clinical relationship from Anatole Broyard. Relational Practices in Health Conference, Taos Institute, Cleveland, 2016.

Re-Imagining Relationality through Leslie Jamison’s The Empathy Exams: A Narrative Medicine Workshop. Relational Practices in Health and Healthcare Conference, Cleveland, 2016.   

Evocative Stories: Using Practitioner Narratives in Clinical Teaching. Creating Space for Arts and Humanities in the Education of Health Professionals, Toronto, 2011.

From case-based to story-based: using reader’s theatre & patient narratives in inter-professional learning. With Patti McGillicuddy & Mandy Lowe. Collaborating Across Borders Conference, Tucson, 2011.