Episode 145: Are You Sitting Comfortably? The Power of Storytelling – Part 1
This episode explores the challenges encountered in different healthcare settings and how storytelling can help promote wellbeing in the workplace. Lalith Wijedoru, consultant emergency paediatrician and Founder of Behind Your Mask, UK, joins Jonathan to discuss the power of storytelling within the workplace to facilitate emotional wellbeing. Wijedoru delves into the prevalence of burnout following the COVID-19 pandemic, and also speaks about working in low-resource healthcare settings across Asia.
Use the following timestamps to navigate the topics discussed in this episode:
(00:00)-Introduction
(01:34)-What inspired Wijedoru to pursue a career in paediatric emergency medicine
(02:35)-Global child health
(04:13)-Socioeconomic determinants of health around the world
(05:50)-Working in low-resource settings, and the impact this had on Wijedoru’s worldview
(09:04)-The founding of Behind Your Mask, and how storytelling plays a part in wellbeing
(12:08)-How a storytelling session works, and Wijedoru’s role as a facilitator in storytelling sessions
(16:10)-The role of storytelling role in emotional wellbeing
(18:05)-Burnout in healthcare settings
(20:37)-NHS Voices of COVID-19 project
(24:15)-Concept of human connection
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