Annual Pre-Intern Orientation Community Organizing Workshop
Sunday, June 5, 2022 from 9am-4:30pm EST on Zoom
The 2022 workshop is entitled “Introduction to Public Narrative, Organizing and Health Equity in Boston” and will be open to incoming medical interns and residents in the greater Boston area.
Registration is Closed. Join the waitlist to be notified when a spot is available.
Please note that registration is on a first come, first served basis.
For questions, email Chrissie Connors at cconnors@challiance.org.
Co-hosted by CHA's Center for Health Equity Education & Advocacy & the MGH Department of Medicine Community Council
Participating Programs
Program Description
The goal of this day-long workshop is to bring together a remarkable group of physicians-in-training from around Boston to reflect on their motivations for pursuing careers in medicine, to learn about the role community organizing can play in promoting health equity, to develop new skills that will allow them to serve as more effective physician advocates, and to build community with other health equity champions.
Need to be convinced that community organizing is a necessary skillset for physicians? Check out this piece in the New Yorker.
Approach
This workshop utilizes Harvard Kennedy School Professor Dr. Marshall Ganz’s interactive framework to familiarize participants with community organizing leadership skills. We focus on one specific community organizing skill- public narrative- as a tool for reflecting on one’s values and identifying values shared with others as the groundwork for collective action. In the workshop, participants will be coached through the process of telling a “story of self” as a way of articulating their values and building relationships that can enable social change. For more information on public narrative, check out this website. In addition to story of self, in the 2022 workshop we will be introducing another essential skill in the process of building relationships: one-on-one meetings. At the end of the workshop, participants will join small groups on health equity topics led by faculty members at the participating institutions and will have a chance to consider how they can use the skills they learned in the workshop to promote health equity in Boston.
Objectives
At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
Identify the key concepts of community organizing and of one specific community organizing leadership skill, public narrative.
Define two specific community organizing tools: story of self and one-on-one meetings.
Apply the principles of public narrative by crafting and delivering their own story of self.
Consider ways in which a story of self and one-on-one meetings could be applied to their work as physician advocates in Boston.
Identify at least one co-intern/co-resident and one faculty member in the greater Boston area with whom they plan to schedule one-on-one meetings to explore future collaboration on health equity projects.
Evaluate whether they have an interest in pursuing further training in community organizing.
Target Audience
This program is available free of charge for any incoming medical interns or residents in the greater Boston area. In the workshop, participants will practice telling a personal story as a way of articulating their values and building relationships that can enable greater social change. Coaches will ask participants to explore the important and meaningful moments in their lives that have called them to serve the public. Workshop participants should be interested in an exercise that asks for such self-exploration and vulnerability and be willing to share their stories in a safe group learning environment.
Program Faculty
Anita Krishnan
Anita Krishnan is a storytelling consultant, leadership coach, and learning specialist, with 10+ years in the field of education. She facilitates trainings on values-based leadership, storytelling, and communication, and coaches leaders from a variety of sectors in the U.S., and internationally. Anita works part-time at Harvard University, collaborating with professors to design, implement, and evaluate courses on human-centered topics like conflict and negotiation, organizational psychology, and cross-cultural communication. Since 2016, she has worked with Marshall Ganz as a Teaching Fellow and coach for his courses on Public Narrative and Community Organizing. Prior to Harvard, Anita taught English in New York and California, and worked in community development in rural Paraguay. Having grown up in Australia, Singapore, and the United States, she brings a global perspective to everything she does, and works to help others effectively foster cross-cultural communication.
Eleanor Emery, MD
Eleanor (Ellie) Emery is a physician with the Department of Internal Medicine at Northern Navajo Medical Center in Shiprock, New Mexico. She received her MD from Weill Cornell Medical College in 2014 and completed residency in Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in 2017.
Gaurab Basu, MD, MPH
Gaurab Basu, MD, MPH is a physician and founding co-director of the CHA Center for Health Equity Education and Advocacy (CHEEA). He is an Instructor at Harvard Medical School’s Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, and a Health Equity Fellow at the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Marya Wegman
Marya Wegman is a public school educator and Public Narrative coach and trainer from Massachusetts. She holds a Masters in Educational Theatre from New York University and in Education from Harvard University, and she is certified to teach English and Theatre Arts in both New York and Massachusetts. She has been a Teaching Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School with Marshall Ganz' Public Narrative course. She currently works at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School where she teaches English and Philosophy.