Sitting With Suffering
Welcome to the "sitting with suffering" project. We are a group of graduate healthcare students studying at the University of Toronto in various disciplines. This project emerged from the Interprofessional Health, Arts & Humanities Certificate Program that offers students deeper learning experiences to support patient/client care and leadership skills through art, meditation, mindfulness and narrative medicine. Below are our key learnings touching on knowledge, values and how it can be useful in our practice as students and practitioners. We hope you find joy in exploring this platform as much as we found joy creating and thoughtfully curating each element for you! Learn more
Creators: Sharu Kuna, Catherine Meng, Kristen Palumbo, Diana Jugowiec, Christen Kong
Suffering is an inevitable part of the human experience, yet so are fulfillment, gratitude, and peace. In this project, we invited our community to reflect on their sensory experiences in times of grief and pain, while also honoring the beauty and calm found in moments of gratitude. We welcome you to explore the multimedia interpretations of their stories and poems below. After each interview, we created personal artistic responses that capture the vivid sensory expressions of these emotions, reflecting how our senses hold space for a wide range of feelings. As we reflected on both joy and sorrow, we began to understand them as inseparable parts of the same experience.
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