Conversations Inviting Change (video link)
Narrative practices are deployed the world over by professionals engaged in a wide range of approaches and modalities. One of the most widely practiced narrative types was developed by British physician and writer John Launer and his colleague Caroline Lindsey. Together they created Conversations in Change (CIC), a narrative-based process and approach designed to provide interactional skills development, and improved systems and communication techniques for both individuals and teams. CIC conferences and workshops have been conducted throughout the UK, and internationally from Scandinavia, Turkey, Japan, and Israel, to the US, Canada and Australia.
Launer and associates work worldwide aiding teams to improve productivity and to better understand one's self. Narrative-Based Practice in Health and Social Care has expanded far beyond its roots in healthcare and the health provider complex and is now used in a range of fields including the corporate world, industy team building, and sports coaching.
John Launer is a multi-faceted professional -- a general family practice physician, family therapist, and a profligate writer, who also holds a degree in English Literature. Launer has authored over ten books, many award winning, including the seminal Narrative-Based Practice in Health and Social Care: Conversations Inviting Change (Routledge 2018) and How Not To Be A Doctor: And Other Essays (Duckworth 2018).
From the early 1980s onward Launer has worked as a journalist publishing "On Reflection," a medical column for Hospital Doctor, followed by a columm at Doctor, and at the International Journal of Medicine Quarterly (QJM). Currently, he is a columnist for the British Medical Journal. He also holds numerous posts within the health care industry and in direct support of the Association for Narrative Practice in Healthcare, (ANPH.org). Launer also leads the program for education innovation for the British National Healthcare System (NHS).
