To:
- Expand the normal medical paradigm for pain, drawing on the expertise of other disciplines and practices, recognising the debate around pain belongs to more groups than only medical professionals.
- Increase understanding of ways in which the arts and their methods can facilitate pain encounters and breakdown conventional hierarchies.
- Increase understanding of ways in which pain is seen and experienced in non English speaking cultural contexts.
- Explore the value of patient narrative to all aspects of medicine.
- Stimulate creative thinking around the challenges of encountering and communicating pain by integrating rigorous scientific presentations with creative practice based interventions.
- Collectively generate new knowledge and ways of disseminating to a wider audience.