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.

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.

Public lecture: Long Room Hub 2-3pm 
December 6th