Narrative Mindworks member Corina Breukel is an osteopath and accredited Conversations Inviting Change (CIC) trainer practicing in the UK.

I am a UK osteopath (which means that I practice manual medicine), in private practice for the last 30-odd years. My special interests involve chronic pain and headaches. I am a director of a small educational company, which teaches and does research in the field of headache diagnosis and treatment. Within the speciality of headaches, I focus on cluster headaches and volunteer to raise awareness and as an advocate for people with this terrible condition.

I found my home in narrative medicine about 8 years ago and have explored the subject from many angles, leading to doing the CPA in narrative medicine at Columbia and qualifying as a trainer in Narrative Practice (Conversations Inviting Change). 

Professionals all need sophisticated interactional skills. “Conversations Inviting Change” (CIC) is a narrative-based approach to encounters in health and social care that can enrich all professional work .

In my personal life I am very happily married, with two children of my own and two bonus children and two grandchildren. I am fortunate to live in Cambridge UK, a beautiful historic city even though I originate from Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands, which is also a gorgeous historic city. My interests are art, both consuming and creating, reading and knitting, but most of all stories and how they connect us all.

Here's a link to a Mindworks in Conversation with Corina - https://members.narrativemindworks.org/blogpost/2117390/Community-Blog