Writing For Healthcare Professionals
Reach out today to schedule an on-site or online creative writing event for your team. Our narrative medicine, embodied writing, or other healthcare-focused creative writing workshop nurtures your healthcare team. We teach healthcare professionals interested in finding joy and healing through writing their stories. Hospitals, private groups, schools, and individuals are all encouraged to reach out to us through our chat button on this website.
Healthcare professionals find a compassionate landing pad at Tongass Mist Writing, where a desire to write and create art impacted by the pristine Tongass forest wilderness is coupled with a commitment to encourage and empower healthcare peers to articulate their experiences and values. At this time, nurses, doctors, technologists midwives, doulas, chaplains, medical students, and anyone working in healthcare are invited to explore opportunities engage in these events. Narrative medicine, embodied writing, and other writing practices help to heal the healer. We offer healthcare-focused workshops, destination retreats, and other events.
The blend of healthcare experience and writing expertise creates a healing environment for your teams' personal journeys. It will also help your meet your organization's mental health goals. These spaces are trauma-informed, gentle, and for both enthusiastic new professionals and those who may feel exhausted, burned out, or are pivoting in their careers. Tongass Mist Writing is happy to work with healthcare networks, private medical groups, individuals, and schools.
Interested in exploring an event Tongass Mist Writing? Reach out today via our chat link or email tongassmistwritingretreat@gmail.com. Every healthcare professional has stories to tell. In healthcare, our focus is often on charting and other technical writing We are invested in taking daily action to create better health in our community. But how do we put the oxygen mask on ourselves and best maintain our own health? One way we can do this is through creative writing. Through writing we express our own experiences, feelings, valuable lessons, adventures, and grief as healthcare professionals. This practice is healing. Finding a community that creates space for us to tell stories through poetry, narrative, essays, or spoken art forms establishes a strong foundation for the work we do.
Tongass Mist Writing is owned and operated by Ruth Underhill, a registered nurse with two decades of experience in direct patient care, management, and education in hospitals across the nation. After earning her Master’s in Writing in 2019 from Vermont College of Fine Arts, she began hosting creative writing classes, events, and retreats in Alaska, and soon online with the arrival of "Zoom Culture" during the COVID pandemic, all while still nursing full-time. Ruth now continues to facilitate Tongass Mist Writing events, teach classes and host retreats away from inpatient care. She has taken her knowledge of healthcare and offers her healthcare peers and community tools to strengthen their mental health through creative writing experiences.
Healthcare Writing Events
Retreats
Treat your team to a rejuvenating creative writing retreat in Southeast Alaska's Tongass National Rainforest. You can select from Juneau, Sitka, or Ketchikan, where your team will enjoy cozy private accommodations, delectable local cuisine, transportation, and exciting wilderness adventures or tailored outings. Come together each day for writing sessions and discussions inspired by narrative medicine or embodied writing.
On-site Classes
Enhance your workplace with a creative writing seminar or workshop from Tongass Mist Writing Treat your team to the art of creative writing, drawing the traditions of narrative medicine, embodied writing, and other therapeutic writing methods that are known to alleviate stress, boost job satisfaction in, and create deeper meaning in healthcare professions. Tongass Mist Writing can manage hosting and catering or only focus writing instruction. You choose the format to fit your event's needs.
On-line Classes
Elevate your workplace with Tongass Mist Writing through our live online classes. Give your team the opportunity to explore creative writing, incorporating narrative medicine, embodied writing, and other therapeutic writing methods that been shown to reduce stress, enhance job satisfaction in healthcare, and foster a sense of purpose among healthcare professionals.
