Nur Ferrante

FOUNDER & INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT

Linguistic Validation Consultant, Translator & Mentor

Integrative Health Professional

Poet & Artist

 With over 20 years of experience merging medicine and humanities

Nur is a professional linguist, integrative health professional, holistic consultant and poet from Spain. She has been working in medical translation and healthcare for over 20 years and specializes in linguistic validation (LV). She has worked in the field of LV for over 10 years for CROs and LSPs specialized in medical translation, and she is a member of Tremédica (The International Association of Medical Translators and Writers and Related Sciences)

She also sees LV from “the other standpoint” as well because, besides being a healthcare professional, she also experiences what it is to have a chronic health condition (multiple sclerosis and chronic fatigue syndrome) and she loves LV because it has helped her greatly in giving her a voice and in recognizing how she feels, functions and lives.

Presently, she works primarily providing LV services for individuals and organizations. She covers the full LV service for the translation and cultural adaptation of Clinical Outcome Assessments (COAs) from English into Spanish for Spain; and with her partners, she coordinates multiple languages LV projects under her professional independent organization ART OF DIVERSITY. Nur is a lover of diversity, anthropology and multiculturalism and is highly specialized in the cross-cultural adaptation of COAs.

Additionally, she provides LV training to companies and professionals within her Linguistic Validation Training Program, and offers holistic coaching for business and personal development. She has a podcast called Linguistic Validation Café, created with her students that covers topics related with LV and creating community and embracing cultures and diversity.

Nur is also a literature and poetry translator, and one of the official translators of J.R.R. Tolkien's works into Spanish. She is a member of the Spanish Tolkien Society, and a specialist in J.R.R. Tolkien's poetry.

As a poet, she specializes in poetry therapy, and has published five poetry books in Spanish and one in English.

"Being a clinician, linguist, and patient myself, I find that translating and culturally adapting COAs comes naturally to me. After more than a decade in the field of LV, I honestly believe that it is a lovely way of contributing to the improvement of people’s health and well-being.

Inspired by the great mystics’ teachings from Eastern and Western traditions and by the practice of mindfulness, I help individuals and organizations connect, thrive and create community, with a spirit of cooperation, compassion, inclusion, equity, diversity and inner-peace.

Besides translating, teaching and being of value to patients as much as possible, I love being an Add Heart® Facilitator (HeartMath Institute) and helping people live connected to their hearts and intuition. I am also a member of Baile de Pingüinos, a multiple sclerosis patients association in Spain dedicated to help MS patients like me to live a satisfying and fulfilling life. I love writing poetry, novels and self-help books, working in Healing Words (my creative space dedicated to spirituality, healing and arts), walking in nature, practicing meditation and spending time with my husband, dog and soul friends.

It is a great pleasure for me to be here with you, and I wish that I may be able to transmit to you the knowledge I have and provide you with my expertiese and experience with clarity, and in a way that may be most valuable to you.

Thank you!

At Art of Diversity I am always joyfully working to improve and grow in order to offer people my best self."

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Thank you for your patience and understanding due my health status as a neurodiverse person.