Narrative Healing: A Program for Writing and Reflection
Schedule
Sat Nov 22 2025 at 10:30 am to 12:00 pm
UTC-06:00Location
800 Main St, La Crosse, WI, United States, Wisconsin 54601 | La Crosse, WI
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During narrative healing sessions, we engage with close reading of a poem or text, practice deep listening and attunement with others. In the shadow of this text, we then engage with a reflective writing exercise that helps us to make personal meaning of the discussion. In this particular session, we will examine how language shapes the way we encounter grief. Registration is requested. Please bring a notebook and writing utensil.Sometimes suffering and grief can be hard to observe, hard to be close to. We’ll reflect on the words of Frances Weller, “Grief offers a wild alchemy that transmutes suffering into fertile ground. We are made real and tangible by the experience of sorrow, adding substance and weight to our world. We are stripped of excess and revealed as human in our times of grief. In a very real way grief ripens us, pulls up from the depths of our souls what is most authentic in our beings. In truth, without some familiarity with sorrow, we do not mature as men and women. It is the broken heart, the heart that knows sorrow that is also capable of genuine love.”
Facilitator Bio:
Jacqueline Redmer MD, MPH is a family medicine physician who practices geriatrics and palliative care in the Driftless Region of Southwest Wisconsin. She started writing poetry during the pandemic to steady herself during the brief pause of a busy life. Her writing has been published in the Examined Life Journal, The Intima Journal, Bramble, Pulse, Wisconsin Poets Calendar and Kevin MD Blog. Her debut poetry collection, Dissociative Effect, was published through Shanti Arts Press in September 2025. She completed the Columbia University Narrative Medicine CPA program and pursued creative writing courses through Stanford University Continuing Studies Program. Outside of work, she often reads and writes in her she-shed or backyard sauna. She enjoys canoeing, camping, and skiing, and delights in the company of her husband and three daughters. For more information, visit: https://www.jacquelineredmer.com/
Register for this event
https://www.lacrosselibrary.org/event/narrative-healing-44135
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