Workshops and Webinars

I offer a small collection of pre-established workshops that are ready to be booked. 

These sessions are designed for various audiences such as patients and family members, as well as researchers and clinicians, with a shared goal of supporting meaningful, respectful, and sustainable partnerships in healthcare and research.

If you’re interested in booking one of the workshops listed, please reach out using the email below and I’m happy to share more details, availability, and next steps.

If you have a specific topic in mind that you don’t see reflected here, I’m very open to a conversation. I’m glad to explore whether it’s something I can thoughtfully and feasibly develop, especially when it aligns with the needs of patient and family partners or the teams working alongside them.

Contact: raemartens@outlook.com

From Posts to Impact: Using Social Media for Knowledge Mobilization

Social media can amplify evidence, lived experience, and nuance, but only when it’s used with care and strategy. This workshop explores how various platforms can support ethical science communication and meaningful knowledge sharing without feeding misinformation.

Learning outcomes:

• Learn about the benefits and limitations of social media as a knowledge tool.

• Learn how to translate complex ideas into accessible content

• Identify best practices for credibility, tone, and transparency online

• Develop a sustainable approach to posting that aligns with your values

Storytelling 101: Sharing Lived Experience With Purpose and Care

This supportive, hands-on workshop is designed for patients and caregivers who are invited to share their lived experiences in research, healthcare, advocacy, or education spaces. Sharing your story can be powerful, but it can also feel vulnerable and exhausting.

This session focuses on helping you tell your story in ways that feel clear, grounded, and fully within your control. Rather than feeling like you need to leave your whole life out there on the stage, we’ll explore practical tools that help you communicate your experiences with confidence while protecting your energy, privacy, and boundaries.

In this workshop, you will:

• Learn a simple and flexible framework for shaping your lived experience story

• Identify the key messages you want others to understand, based on your goals and your audience

• Practice ways to summarize your experience without feeling pressure to share everything

• Develop language for setting boundaries, redirecting questions, and deciding what feels safe to share

• Build confidence in speaking from lived experience while staying connected to your own comfort and well-being

Participants will leave with practical tools, reflective prompts, and greater clarity about how to share their story in ways that feel empowering, not depleting.

Defining Success: Planning and Measuring Meaningful Lived Experience Inclusion at Conferences

For conference planners, researchers, clinicians and people with lived experience

Inviting people with lived experience to healthcare and research conferences is often framed as a marker of progress, but inclusion without intention can miss the mark. This workshop focuses on how to plan for patient and caregiver participation in ways that are purposeful, ethical, and measurable. Participants examine what success really looks like when we say #PatientsIncluded, and how to design conferences that value contribution over visibility.

Learning outcomes:

• Identify meaningful goals for involving patients and caregivers in conference planning and delivery

• Distinguish between symbolic inclusion and impactful participation

• Learn what to measure beyond attendance and representation

• Develop practical indicators of success that reflect experience, influence, and respect

• Leave with tools to plan patient inclusion from invitation through follow-up

Navigating the Noise: Empowering Yourself to Recognize and Challenge Health Misinformation

For patients, people with lived experience, caregivers, healthcare providers and researchers

From social media and news headlines, to research articles and advocacy spaces it can be difficult to know what to trust. This webinar helps participants build practical skills for recognizing health misinformation and responding to it with confidence. This session explores how misinformation spreads, why it can feel persuasive, and how individuals can evaluate claims without needing to be scientific experts. Participants will leave with tools to make informed decisions and engage in conversations about health information in ways that are respectful, grounded, and effective.

Learning Outcomes

• Identify common signs of health misinformation and misleading claims

• Understand how language, framing, and emotion influence how health information is received

• Use simple strategies to evaluate sources and evidence

• Recognize the difference between scientific uncertainty and misinformation

• Develop confidence in discussing health information with others