Bringing Meaning Back to Medicine

Reconnect to purpose, reclaim your work

NarrativeDocs provides healthcare leaders with:

  • A proven, story-based approach to addressing clinician burnout.

  • A paradigm for leadership that maximizes your sense of agency in a difficult and lonely position. 

  • A model for communication among clinical teams and leadership that leads to shared goals, enhanced patient and staff satisfaction, and improved clinical outcomes.

Willbroad Kyejo, MD 2024

Open Medical Institute Fellow, Tanzania

“The Narrative Medicine workshop was the highlight of the seminar for me. I found great resonance in Dr. Vaughn’s discussion, which focused on the value of understanding and empathy in patient care.”

OUR SERVICES

WORKSHOPS AND RETREATS

Based on the three pillars of close reading, reflective writing, and attentive listening, NarrativeDocs workshops provide a meaningful and safe space for healthcare professionals to address issues that are acutely impacting their work in today’s volatile practice environment: burnout, resiliency, trust, moral injury, and reconnecting to purpose

TRAINING COURSES

Our courses take healthcare teams through a step-wise progression of story building from general principles to a specific and individualized vocabulary for improved communication that lead to shared goals and effective patient care.

KEYNOTE ADDRESSES

John combines his expertise in organizational and individual behavioral dynamics with his experience as a primary care physician, educator, and healthcare administrator into keynote addresses that blend humor, inspiration, and empathy to deliver profound insights and practical take-aways.

  • Navigating Responsibility without Authority

  • COVID on Campus: Leadership lessons from managing a global pandemic at an elite university

  • Bringing Purpose Back to Practice

  • Data Vs. Story

  • Leading from Fear

  • The Journal of Anecdotal Medicine: leading in a post-factual world

INDIVIDUAL AND TEAM COACHING

NarrativeDocs offers a narrative-based approach to tackling the specific problems you and your team are facing. Our approach is as unique as the stories you use to define your experience, as we rewrite them together with the goals of enhancing purpose and agency.