Pain Management

David was invited to speak about his poetry workshops at the recent national conference of the British Pain Society in Glasgow.

Each workshop is based around writing a Kennings, a list (not unlike a shopping list) of words and short phrases under a subject heading.  Subjects would be things such as 'visiting the hospital', 'waiting in a queue', or 'family holiday'.

There are three Kennings in Tunnel Vision, his first poetry collection, that show how this style is ideal in getting people writing poetry.  For details of the collection, go to the publications tab.

The workshops reinforce the Cognitive Behavioural Therapy work done on the course, putting it into a creative context.  This helps the patients to put the advice and suggestions into practice within a very straightforward framework. 

If you work in a pain management programme and would like more information on the workshop and how it could help your patients, please email David via the Contacts tab.  He is able to send you a copy of the slide presentation, and discuss with you how the workshop could be made specific to the content of your particular programme.

If you suffer chronic (that is, on-going) pain, speak to your doctor about the possibility of attending a pain management programme.