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2024 Visiting Professor Equality Diversity and Inclusion Series

 

Professor John Launer

John Launer is a doctor, educator and award-winning writer. With a dual professional background in general practice and family therapy, as well a degree in English literature, John’s interests range across health care, human systems and the humanities. They include narrative medicine, clinical supervision for the health professions and  team development in the health service.

John has written and edited eleven books and is a BMJ columnist.  John was the originator, with Caroline Lindsey, of Conversations Inviting Change (CIC). This is a narrative-based model for interactional skills, used in encounters with patients, clients and families, as well as for individual and group supervision, mentoring, coaching, team facilitation and conflict resolution. 

John has worked in the National Health Service in the UK continuously for over forty years. His current posts include honorary associate clinical professor of primary care at University College London & honorary lifetime consultant at the Tavistock Clinic.

Details of John's publications can be found here: John Launer Publications

John's full CV can be found here: John Launer CV

Visiting Professor at Trinity College Dublin

 

Narrative practice: Conversations inviting change

6th December 2024

2-3pm Trinity Long Room Hub

All Welcome