Thursday, February 1 - 6 - 7:30pm MST - Online

December 7, 2023, " Medicine and the Muse - The Power of Storytelling on Mental Health," Waltham, MA

December 10, 2023, Writing Workshop for Institute of Healthcare Improvement, Orlando, FL

Grace D. Li, New York Times bestselling author of Portrait of a Thief and clinical student at Stanford School of Medicine for the Association of Medical Colleges in Seattle, WA.

Endwell Conference Keynote

Keynote

Laurel will be speaking at the first Big Ideas in Medicine conference at the Stanford School of Medicine.

Keynote

Laurel will be speaking about the role of storytelling in the wellbeing of healthcare professionals.

Keynote

Laurel will be speaking on the mainstage at the TEDWomen conference in Atlanta, Georgia.

2-3:15pm

Laurel will be speaking at Chautauqua as part of the “Health and Faith: Considering the Center of Wellbeing” session, in partnership with Interfaith America.

Keynote Speaker

Laurel will be speaking about the power of storytelling on the wellbeing of healthcare professionals—for their benefit and that of their patients and colleagues.

The Samoset Resort

Keynote Speaker

Laurel will be speaking about the power of storytelling on the wellbeing of healthcare professionals—for their benefit and that of their patients and colleagues.

with Hope Edelman

Hope is the author of eight nonfiction books, including the bestsellers Motherless Daughters and Motherless Mothers, and her most recent book The Aftergrief. Her work has been published in 17 countries and has sold more than 1 million copies. Motherless Daughters, often considered required reading for any woman who has lost a mother, is now in its third edition and has been in print for nearly 30 years. A Motherless Daughters Workbook is in process for publication in 2024. Hope has spoken at venues and conferences all over the world, from the U.S. and Canada to Australia, the U.K., and Dubai. She has appeared frequently on television including Today, Good Morning America, CNN, KTLA, CBC, Good Morning Washington, and Good Morning Australia. She is a life coach with additional training in narrative therapy and runs weekend retreats and weekly online support calls for women who've lost their mothers.

Paramount Theater, Oakland CA; Theater at the Ace Hotel, Los Angeles CA; BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, Brooklyn NY

With Stories by Laurel….along with CORD JEFFERSON, Writer, director, producer, Erasure, Station 11, Watchmen, Succession, The Good Place. STEPHANIE FOO, Author, producer, New York Times bestseller What My Bones Know, This American Life. JON MOOALLEM, Author, Serious Face, This is Chance!, Wild Ones, New York Times Magazine. ADRIAN L. BURRELL. Director, filmmaker, The Game God(S). CHRIS COLIN, Author, producer, Off: The Day the Internet Died, Longer Tables with José Andrés, New York Times. ALBERT SAMAHA. Author, reporter, BuzzFeed News, Concepcion, Never Ran, Never Will. BRITTANY SPANOS Writer, Rolling Stone.

With new original music from MAGIK*MAGIK ORCHESTRA

10AM-1PM - Lucile Packard Children's Hospital auditorium.

We are proud to announce this year’s annual Medicine & the Muse Symposium, a celebration of the many artistic, literary, musical and other creative scholarly talents at the Stanford School of Medicine.

This year, Symposium features keynote, Laurel Braitman, author of What Looks Like Bravery: An epic journey from loss to love. Laurel Braitman PhD is a New York Times bestselling author and the Director of Writing and Storytelling at the Medical Humanities and the Arts Program at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Laurel Braitman & Maria Popova in conversation

Maria Popova thinks and writes about science and art, poetry and philosophy, children's books and our search for meaning — about what it means to live a life of purpose and gladness, wonder-smitten by reality. She is the creator of The Marginalian (born in 2006 under the outgrown name Brain Pickings), which is included in the Library of Congress permanent digital archive of culturally valuable materials. She sometimes writes books and is the maker of The Universe in Verse — a charitable celebration of the wonder of reality through stories of science winged with poetry.

Laurel Braitman & Samin Nosrat in conversation.

7:30pm

Samin Nosrat is a cook, writer and podcaster. She is the author of the James Beard Award–winning, New York Times Bestselling cookbook Salt Fat Acid Heat and host of a Netflix docuseries of the same name. She also plays a starring role in Laurel’s book…and life.

Laurel Braitman & Jon Mooallem in Conversation.

7:30pm

Jon is a contributing writer to the NYT Magazine and has written many good books. Mary Roach says his “essays are literary alchemy..he questions the givens, rethinks the dogma, visits one more person, ponders, asks, explores. He’s just so damn good.” This is truth.

Laurel Braitman & Rebecca Skloot in Conversation.

7pm.

Rebecca Skloot is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks which was made into an Emmy-nominated film. Her award winning science writing has appeared in the NYT Magazine; O, The Oprah Magazine, and many other publications. She is also the person you very much want to have around in an emergency.

3-6pm

Kids, friends, lovers, compassionate strangers, and dogs are welcome. There will be whiskey and books to buy and damn good food.

Laurel will also hug you too tight and thank you for helping her survive long enough to publish this book.