The Story That Your Illness Tells (Livestream)

With Gabor Maté, M.D. and Lewis Mehl-Madrona, MD

March 24, 2023

Online Program Online

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Mar 24, 2023 PDT

Date and Time Details: Friday, March 24, 2023 from 7 - 9pm

Location: Virtual

Contact: Meg Power
meg@hollyhock.ca

Tuition: $50 CAD

  • CAD $50.00 – FRIDAY MARCH 24 Public Event LIVESTREAM

This registration is for the livestream of the Public Talk ONLY. Interested in attending in person? Purchase tickets here.

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Illness of mind or body can be seen as random misfortune or a genetically decreed calamity. While the latter does occur, it is rare. In most cases there is nothing pre-ordained about a disease, nor is it a stroke of bad luck. One way to see illness is as dynamic process, a manifestation of a life lived in a certain family and a certain culture.

In other words, there is a story behind it which, if understood and expressed, can help move the process towards healing. In this interactive workshop, two veteran medical doctors, both trained in modern Western medicine but who have both studied alternative ways of understanding how we become ill or healthy, will lead participants to gain active agency over their health through the power of narrative.

This livestream is not interactive, but the in-person Q&A will be streamed.

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About the Presenters

Gabor Maté, M.D.

Dr. Gabor Maté (pronounced GAH-bor MAH-tay) is a retired physician who, after 20 years of family practice and palliative care experience, worked for over a decade in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side with patients challenged by drug addiction and mental illness. The bestselling author of four books published in thirty languages, Gabor is an internationally renowned […]

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Lewis Mehl-Madrona, MD

Lewis Mehl-Madrona, MD graduated from Stanford University School of Medicine and trained in family medicine, psychiatry, and clinical psychology. He completed his residencies in family medicine and in psychiatry at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. He has been on the faculties of several medical schools, most recently as associate professor of family medicine […]

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