[ecrea] 2nd Annual Narratives of Health and Wellbeing Research Conference

You are invited to register for "Rise: A Conference Exploring 
Resilience, Writing and Wellbeing".

The Health, Creative Arts, Humanities and Human Service disciplines have 
much in common. This one-day multi-disciplinary conference showcases 
work that reveals the benefits to society of scholarship in all of these 
areas. We explore the concepts of resilience, writing and wellbeing.

Wenckus once observed that storytelling, in whatever mode - be it oral, 
written, filmed, or dramatized - can "relate cultural history, teach 
ethics and morals, relax, entertain, and stimulate imagination and 
creativity" (1994, p. 30). In health-care, there can be stress and 
dissatisfaction, leading to detached clinicians and impersonal actions. 
Research linking the creative arts and health may hold the key for 
humanising this vital workforce.

In this, our second narratives of health and wellbeing conference, we 
showcase scholarly work reviewing, exploring, studying, deconstructing 
and reconstructing the concept of resilience - the positive adjustment 
to adversity. We explore the role narrative plays in conveying stories 
of resilience and how the act of writing and developing narrative may 
also build resilience. We may begin to question whether resilience is a 
personal, innate, or learned attribute; a social or cultural asset; or a 
buzzword that offloads social and workplace responsibilities onto 
individuals.

Delegates likely to benefit include researchers, scholars, advanced 
undergraduate, post-graduate and RHD students working in any area of 
narrative research, writing narrative production, nursing, midwifery, 
mental health, the creative and performing arts, education and the 
humanities.

This conference is an exciting opportunity for delegates to interact 
across a diverse range of interests. The conference program features 
half day workshops that will provide delegates with hands-on learning 
and experience, an evening welcome function with a special private 
viewing of the CQU Noosa Arts Space Exhibition and featured floor talk, 
a full day conference event showcasing multiple speaker presentations 
and keynote addresses by Dr Kate Ames co-author of Will To Live, and 
Professor Margaret McAllister, Professor of Nursing at CQUniversity 
Australia.

Date		Thursday 26th and Friday 27th October 2017
Location	CQUniversity Noosa Campus, Queensland, Australia

Full conference program and registration details can be found on the 
conference website www.narrativesconference.org
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