At its core, narrative medicine is medicine practiced with narrative competence, which is the learned ability to listen, absorb, and be moved to action and advocacy by stories of illness. Put simply, narrative medicine is clinical practice fortified by the knowledge of what to do with stories. Put another way, narrative medicine is an alternative medical approach to patient encounters that utilizes patients' narratives in clinical practice and education to promote healing. Come relax and practice your narrative medicine skills with us (food is always included!).

These sessions will provide both prospective students and undergraduate students with the opportunity to speak to a School of Pharmacy representative to ask questions about the program. This offers an easy way to connect with members from our school without having to come to the Storrs campus.

In-Power is a student-led support group dedicated to building a gender-inclusive community that welcomes victim-survivors of sexual assault, stalking, and/or intimate partner violence at any point in their healing process. Through a focus on empowerment, autonomy, and resilience, the group aims to help participants claim agency over their own stories and experiences, as well as the direction of the group. We'll be accomplishing this with a variety of discussion topics and self-care methods. If you are interested in joining the group, please reach out to facilitators at: in-power@uconn.edu (mailto:in-power@uconn.edu)

THE SHAPE OF WHAT REMAINS A story about the choices one women makes as she begins to heal from intractable grief.  Like all trauma, healing happens on its own timetable, often in surprising ways. Paralyzed by grief ten years after witnessing the violent death of her six-year-old daughter, Teresa Calvano turns to Chaucer, Janis Joplin, and a monthly book group to cope. What did six-year-old Serena Calvano see that caused her to run in the road on a clear November morning while waiting for the school bus with her mother? Teresa Calvano has spent a decade blaming herself for Serena's violent death and wishing it was her husband, Luke who was with Serena that day, so the guilt didn't fall so heavily on her shoulders. When her husband and friends lose patience with her failure to get back to life, Teresa turns to books, therapy, and Janis Joplin to address her continued unraveling. Is there a cure for grief? In Teresa's world, her research and life as a successful English professor fail to offer the one thing she most wants: another day with her six-year-old daughter.  "Like the impact the life of a parent has, the impact of a child's death is unending. Teresa Calvano, protagonist of Lisa C. Taylor's deeply moving novel, The Shape of What Remains, discovers that a parent's grief has no outline, no edges, that it seeps into every aspect of life, every relationship, every encounter." — Richard Hoffman, author of Half the House and Love & Fury

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