A project that explores the unseen in the relationship between patients, families, and healthcare professionals.

Dialoguing

Project Synopsis

Changes in health are accompanied by layers of complexity that alter a person’s sense of themselves and their relationship to their world. The complex determinants of those changes are often overlooked in healthcare because it has been more heavily influenced by medical and prescriptive models of care.

This same prescriptive model can constrain how patients, families, and healthcare professionals interact, narrowing the discovery that more widened conversations can invite.

Dialoguing is a project designed to surface new ways that healthcare professionals, patients and families can relate and communicate through their shared healthcare experience; to restore into the practice of healthcare a vision of the whole person, widening the aperture on understanding needs in service to well-being.

Project Details

  • Mark Stolow, CEO of People Before Patients and Cynthia Kurtz, Researcher and Designer, Participatory Narrative Inquiry

  • The current project focuses on older adults and individuals impacted by a cancer diagnosis.

  • April 1, 2026 - until March 31, 2027

  • New Horizons for Seniors

    Merck Canada

    Johnson and Johnson

Expressions of Interest in this Project

A call to professionals and people impacted by a health issue who want to share stories of healthcare specific interactions.