Lasting Letters and the Art of Deep Listening

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This course is an interactive course focused on developing listening skills essential to health care providers. Integrating 'See One, Do One, Teach One' with practices from the arts and humanities, students will develop tools physicians find useful in daily practice including talking with patients and colleagues and interviewing skills. Students will complete the class with an enhanced sense of what it means to listen, the unique role that letters of lasting import play in the healing process, and ways in which both enhance one's daily and professional practice in the healing arts. Frish Brandt is a Letter Midwife working primarily in Palliative Care and hospice. Since 2015 she has written a wide range of letters with over '500 people.' Her book UNFINISHED BUSINESS: THE FIVE ESSENTIAL LETTERS TO WRITE IN YOUR LIFETIME will be published in late 2026.