PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

New Direction in Humanities > The World 4.0: Convergences of Knowledges and Machines, Granada, Spain (June 2019)

ISAP Zurich: Jungian Odyssey (Supported in part by CCA Curriculum Development Grant) > Inner Ways of Knowing: Intuition, Insight, Inspiration, Zermatt, Switzerland (June 2016)

Pacifica Graduate Institute Public Programs > Imagination and Medicine III: Healing in an Age of Neuroscience (Oct 2011) > The Body in Depth Psychology with Stephen Aizenstat, Robert Bosnak, Ed Casey, Michael Kearney, Alan Kilpatrick, Richard Kradin, Ginette Paris, Robert Romanyshyn > Creating Healing Environments with Stephen Aizenstat, Robert Bosnak, Michael Kearney, Jon La Puma, Lawrence Spann, Elizabeth Nelson, Marion Woodman > Imagination and Medicine II: Healing in an Age of Neuroscience (Jan 2010) > Old and Young: Senex and Puer with James Hillman (April 2010)

Assisi Institute for Study of Archetypal Pattern Analysis > Psyche, Archetypes, and Eternal Patterns with Dennis Patrick Slattery, Michael Conforti, and Richard Tarnas (May 2009)

Dominican University of California > Big History Summer Institute: Speaker “Big History Through the Lens of Big Literature” (June 2017) > International Big History Association Conference (August 2014) > Big History Summer Institute: Big Bang to the Present (June 2013)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS > SPEAKER | PANELIST | WORKSHOP PRESENTER

MFA in Creative Writing Program, Dominican University of California (June 2020) > Writing for Health & Healing > Narrative Medicine in a Pandemic > Facing Fears for Healthcare Workers

Pessoa e Companhia – Associação Cultural > “Firewalking” as Narrative Medicine, Lisbon, Portugal (July 2019)

Mental Health & Arts Initiative > Expressive Writing as Narrative Medicine, San Francisco State University Psychology Seminars (Feb/March 2019)

MFA in Creative Writing Program, Dominican University of California (June 2018) > Brutal Aesthetics: Writing on Hard Subjects > How Big Is Your Ballroom? Panel on Publishing, with Terry Lucas and Judy Halebsky > Narrative Medicine: Panel on Outreach, with Courtney Donovan, John Fox, and Dawn Gross

Two Creative Writing Classes, Facultade de Letras, Universidade Lisboa (May 2018) > Fernando Pessoa and His Heteronyms: Possessing Multiple Selves within Us

Il Jornadas de Cuidados Paliativos Pediatricos (May 2018) > Silvie’s Life: Narrative Medicine and Palliative Care

MFA in Creative Writing Program, Dominican University of California (January 2018) > Writing Dialogue: Talk, with Thomas Burke > Off the Page & On the Air: On Reading in Public

MFA in Creative Writing Program, Dominican University of California (June 2017) > Organizing Principles: Holding the Story Together > Approaches to Narrative/Poetic Medicine > Writing about Real People: Truth & Ethics

Narrative Medicine Course, Universidad Catolico, Porto, and University of Lisbon, Portugal (June 2017) > Writing Silvie's Life: How It Happened and What It Has Meant

International Big History Association Conference, Dominican University of California (August 2014) > Teaching Big History Through the Lens of Big Literature

Young Rhetoricians’ Conference, Monterey, CA (June 2013) > Found Text Exercises: Locating Our Stance in Response to the World As We Find It

Young Rhetoricians’ Conference, Monterey, CA (June 2012) > The “Self-Forgetful” First-Person Point of View

Healthcare Ethics, Technologies, Politics, Georgetown Univ, Washington, DC (Nov 2010)

Compassionate Friends National Conference, Portland, OR (July 2009)

National Perinatal Bereavement Conference, Chicago (Oct 2006): Saying No to Treatment 

On Estar Grávida é Estar de Esperanças [Silvie’s Life, in translation] > Il Seminário de Neonatologia, Viana do Costelo > Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada, Lisboa > Instituto de Bioética da Universidade Católica, Porto, Portugal (May 2006)

Humanity, Technology & Perinatology: Good Ethics Based on Good Information, San Diego (Oct, 2004) > Palliative Care: Preparing for the Transition

COMMUNITY SERVICE

California Writers Club–Marin: Afternoon Workshop > Writing Travel Stories (Feb 2012)

California Writers Club–Berkeley: One-Day Workshops > Sense of Place (Nov 2010) > Writing Travel Stories (April 2010) > Art of the Noun (Nov 2009)

Strategies for Learning, Oakland > Writing Specialist: Berkeley Montessori School Journalism Group (Fall 2008)

Marin Brain Injury Network > Editor: Poetry by center participants (Spring 2005)

Writing for Your Health > Leader: Group for cancer patients writing their life stories (2002–2003)

Marin Women's Hall of Fame > Facilitated biography writing project with nonfiction class at Redwood High School (Fall 2003) > Wrote biographies of Isabel Allende, Beth Ashley, Rosie Casals, Sister Samuel Conlan (1990s)

Kent Middle School > Facilitator: Journalism Club for students to write and produce school newspaper (1999–2003)