Healthcare Stories
Presented by the Resiliency Center, the Center for Health Ethics, Arts, and Humanities, and UtahPresents
HEALTHCARE STORIES: TOGETHER
COMING MARCH 05, 2026
This season, UtahPresents, the Resiliency Center, and the Center for Health Ethics, Arts, and Humanities will present an evening of storytelling with the eighth installment of Healthcare Stories at Kingsbury Hall.
This year’s theme is “Together.” Together is the way that we get things done. The spoken and unspoken ways that we depend on each other. This year’s healthcare stories might be about taking on complex challenges as a community, the ripples that spread from a single conversation or event to create waves, seeing the good in each other when we can’t see it in ourselves, or how we witness and celebrate defining moments of what it means to be human.
A call for stories will go out in early fall 2025. Clinicians, patients, family members, staff, faculty and students are encouraged to submit their stories reflecting on the theme “Together” in the context of health and healthcare.
PAST EVENT RECORDINGS
On Feb. 6, 2025, UtahPresents, the Resiliency Center, and the Center for Health Ethics, Arts, and Humanities presentedd an evening of storytelling with the seventh installment of Healthcare Stories at Kingsbury Hall. This year’s theme was “Joy” – our lived experience of connecting to or longing for delight, glee, triumph, and feeling fully vital and alive. Stories explored themes reflecting on experiencing the impossible, witnessing the miraculous, working through tribulation, beholding the harvest of hard work or a life’s work, simply being present to the pleasures, people, and generosities of the everyday.
On February 1, 2024, the Resiliency Center and the Center for Health Ethics, Arts, and Humanities presented the sixth in the series of Healthcare Stories at Kingsbury Hall. This year’s theme was “Promise.” Stories addressed imagined futures, potential pathways, new opportunities, vows, commitments, and moments of growth, as well as journeys that took unexpected detours and relationships that changed.
On June 1st, 2023, the Resiliency Center and the Center for Health Ethics, Arts, and Humanities presented the fifth in the series of Healthcare Stories. This year’s theme was “Wonder.” Stories addressed discovery, questioning, the wonderful things that bring you awe or delight, what stops you in your tracks and causes you to reflect, and things that make you say, “I wonder.”
WHY DO OUR STORIES MATTER?
Healthcare Stories Director, Gretchen Case, PhD, and Storyteller Beth Vukin, MD, join Good Things Utah to share about why communities need stories - both to hear them and to share them.