Narrative Echoes.
A Healing Journey
Through Narrative Medicine.
Narrative Echoes is a narrative medicine–based consultancy. We design professional experiences for diverse audiences, including healthcare staff, patients and nonprofits— anyone seeking a healing journey.
Each framework creates space for every voice in the room. Our programs invite participants to reflect, reimagine, and co-create new stories with depth, care, and intention.
The echo in our name speaks to the ripple effect of storytelling: when stories are shared authentically, they foster empathy, understanding, and deep listening. In this way, narrative practices honor the whole person.
The individual transformation experienced in a narrative-medicine workshop becomes the seed for a collective shift in culture.
Every story matters.
Every person matters.
Restoring Humanity in Healthcare
“Stories do not simply describe reality; they create the conditions for understanding, connection, and change.”
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Narrative Medicine Workshops
For private groups of 2–10. Sessions cultivate empathy, attentive listening, and perspective-shifting through art, poetry, prose, creative writing, and shared reflection.
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Narrative Medicine Curriculum
We partner with universities to integrate Narrative Medicine into health-care programs. Through close reading, writing, and discussion, students develop narrative humility, deep listening, and reflective practice.
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Intensive Programs for Healthcare Organizations
Six-week (or customized) programs tailored to your leaders, staff and interdisciplinary teams. Our programs can ease burnout and foster collaboration. Each session uses reflective writing, dialogue, and creative expression to build resilience.
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End-of-Life Conversations & Compassionate Communication
2-hour workshop (2–10 participants) drawing on Beth’s end-of-life expertise. Participants practice presence, witnessing, and storytelling to communicate with greater compassion and clarity.
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Training for Professionals — One Day Immersion
For clinicians, wellness practitioners, writers and anyone interested in the topic. A one-day introduction to Narrative Medicine integrating writing, close reading, narrative therapy, and social justice. Includes certificate of completion.
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Narrative & Nourishment Retreats in Italy
A 10-day retreat blending Narrative Medicine with food, travel, and cultural immersion. Cooking classes, wine tastings, and shared meals accompany daily reflective sessions—exploring how story, nourishment, and place support healing and creativity.
Lodo & Beth
We met at Columbia University during the Master’s program in Narrative Medicine, where we first became friends and then collaborators. From the beginning, we shared a vibrant energy for change and a deep commitment to reimagining healthcare as a more humane, relational system. Our distinct backgrounds—Lodo in journalism and storytelling, Beth as a hospice nurse—intertwined in ways that allowed us to think both broadly and creatively. Together, we draw on these complementary perspectives to design projects and services that respond more deeply to the human experience of care.
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Founder
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Founder
Graduated from the M.S. in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University