Reinekke Lengelle, PhD
Associate Professor Interdisciplinary Studies
Athabasca University, Canada
Researcher The Hague University, The Netherlands
Reinekke Lengelle worked as a poet-on-the-ward at a large teaching hospital in Canada and is a professor of writing for wellbeing. She will introduce “Writing the Self,” inviting those attending to have a taste of creative and expressive writing for identity development. Her research and practice led to the co-development of “Career Writing,” a narrative approach within career counselling, inspiring participants to consider how pain and vocational drive are inextricably linked and how grief can be an impetus for personal development. Her experience of losing her spouse to cancer in November 2018 culminated in the book Writing the Self in Bereavement: A Story of Love, Spousal Loss, and Resilience (Routledge) that won the 2022 Outstanding Book Award from the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.
Health Humanities Lecture Series of the Center for Bioethics & Health Law — This lecture is offered in conjunction with the Medical Communication course of Susan Wieczorek at Pitt-Johnstown.
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