2024 saw a tremendous range of courses and workshops in CIC. These included live activities in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, as well as Belgium, Italy and China. We also delivered online trainings and presentations in Japan, Singapore and elsewhere. Our partners included the Physiotherapy Pain Association, Durham University, Hull/York University Medical School, Anglia Ruskin University, Trinity College Dublin, ISTUD Business School in Milan, the Japanese Primary Care Association, SingHealth in Singapore and Peking University (which still goes by its historic name). You will find reports of some of these activities on this site under the News category.
One of our greatest successes was completion of a further Training the Trainers course, leading to nine more clinical and academic colleagues progressing to become accredited trainers of CIC. Planned workshops and courses during 2025 include further collaborations with many of the institutions named above in the UK, Europe and Asia, and include a live residential course in Greece for GPs from Denmark.
One of the challenges we face is to meet requests from individuals who are not members of institutions that have commissioned CIC courses. We have an increasing list of such requests and plan to launch an “open” online course in the first half of 2025 to meet demand for this, If you are interested in joining such a course, please do send an email to the Association of Narrative Practice in Healthcare at anph.enquiries@gmail.com. Please also get in touch if your organisation would like to request a workshop or course delivered online or in your own workplace.