This conference is for professionals, allied workers and similar, primarily working in the UK in areas such as mental health, physical health, education, social work, social care, and allied fields, whether in state services or the third sector.
NarraScope is a conference that brings together the writers, developers, scholars, and players of interactive narrative.
ARDIN Voices: Narrative design from Within and Without
Märten Rattasepp – Narrative Design from Within and Without. Märten Rattasepp may be one of Estonia's most widely read writers; his ARDIN Voices talk will explore narrative design from both inside and outside the industry.
Narrative as Medicine: When Telling a Story Changes the Body with Joshua M. Smyth.
This talk explores the potential for a productive collision between narrative theory and mind–body science: the idea that narrative is not only a lens on experience but a lever that can transform it.
Theme: Narrative Therapy's Unfinished Projects
Theme: Hunting for Attention: Interactive Digital Storytelling in Fragmented Attention Landscapes.
The Zip-Scene Conference takes XR/extended reality (VR/AR/MR) and Metaverse-related works seriously and treats them on equal footing to film and performing arts, and wishes to expand its scientific treatment and reflection.
This conference featured the diverse work of Rwandan practitioners with children and families and from narrative therapists and community workers from many different parts of the world.
Theme: Look Both Ways: Narrative and Metaphor in Education.
The 2025 winter school was on the interplay between narrative and the mind, to examine how cognition is informed by narrativity, and how narratives are shaped by our cognitive engagement.
Theme: Narrative and Metaphor in the Law
Legal scholars and specialists from cognitive theory, journalism, rhetoric, social psychology, criminology, and legal activism explored how narrative and metaphor are both vital to the legal process.
Theme: Binocular Vision: Narrative and Metaphor in Medicine
Topics included: narrative and metaphor in patients’ experience of illness, the narrative medicine programs which have been developed in medical schools and the value of adding a metaphor dimension to these.
Theme: Narrative and Metaphor across the Disciplines.
Convened contributors from architecture, dance, economics, education, environmental studies, history, indigenous studies, law, literature, media studies, medicine, nursing, organisation theory, philosophy, politics, and psychology.
