Digital Stories Belong in Curriculum & Communities

Digital storytelling is having a quiet breakthrough in health and wellness, and this conversation shows what it looks like when the work finally meets the moment. Dr. Mike Lang shares how he went from having to justify why stories matter in healthcare to embedding digital stories directly into a University of Calgary nursing curriculum. In nursing education, narrative learning is not fluff, it is clinical preparation. First-person storytelling helps students grasp identity, ethics, and the human stakes behind care decisions. When digital storytelling is treated as a core learning tool, it strengthens empathy, reflection, communication, and patient-centred practice in ways a lecture rarely can.