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1. The Narrative Practitioner A Service User’s Perspective – The Narrative Edge
Tracey Holley
2. The Narrative Edge ‘ ” Who taught you all this, Doctor?”
The reply came promptly:
“suffering” ‘
- Albert Camus, The Plague
3. Introduction to my field Service User definition
Subject area : Mental Health
Related Disciplines – Psychology,
Psychiatry
Nursing
Social Work
Key Themes: victim to survivor to expert by experience
The role of subjective experience
4. Humanity into Professionalism “I cannot emphasise enough that the healing disciplines require training with one who knows the way and the ways, one who has unequivocally lived it – and for life.”
(‘On the Master Storyteller’ , S. Sanfield)
5. Unique Selling Point (USP) The inside story – sharing the knowledge
Straight from the horse’s mouth
Authenticity
6. The Authentic Voice Insider Knowledge
In our own words – nothing second hand here
Speaking from Practice not Theory
Not a spoken to but a speaker of
Kevin
“ And I was a brilliant presenter on my life because it belonged to me and no-one else. And the story helped students become better social workers”
7. Heart and Soul “It is not trying to please one particular person in the audience (…);it is not trying to please anybody. It is listening to your own inner voice, and then putting your heart and soul into every story…”
(‘On the Master Storyteller’ S. Sanfield)
8. Service User as Narrative Practitioner The Power of 3 – service user, tutor, student
Promotes interdisciplinary learning and teaching
A culture for partnership working and collaborative learning
Service user’s story integral to the teaching and learning process
9. 3 is a magic number! Outcomes for service user as narrative practitioner
Pedagogic
Therapeutic
Political
10. Service user/narrator “I enjoyed the impact that my story had on students. I felt I was helping them to be better supporters to vulnerable people. I was able to build on my ‘people skills’ and my teaching abilities. I found I built myself up at the same time. “
11. Therapeutic benefit of telling our story The ‘spoken to’ becoming the ‘speaker of’
The disempowered becoming empowered
Improved self-esteem and confidence
Meaningful work/activity
Reward and recognition
Feeling valued
Sense of belonging and purpose
Helping recovery and mental wellbeing
12. Service User InitiativeThe Suretech Project A video project to aid teaching and learning
Five ten-minute narratives on film illustrating service user perspectives
Trigger composite narratives relevant to themes of the teaching programme
Unexpected themes resulting from the experts by experience
13. Pedagogic benefit of telling Our Story Added IMPACT for learning and retention
A change from objectivity to subjectivity
Effective affective learning
The value of emotional discourse as an educative tool
Applications for reflective practice and the Self Science Curriculum
The interactive story teller – the visual, verbal and emotional experience
A once marginalised voice centre of academic discourse See notes from notebookSee notes from notebook
14. Political Benefit of Telling Our Story True service user involvement
The voice of the people
Breaking down barriers of stigma
tokenism
social exclusion
Seeing beyond the problem
Empowerment not exploitation
Levelling the playing field
The voice of experience integral to teaching and learning for our future nurses and social workers,etc
A voice to a previously marginalised part of society – service users’ stories can be used as tools for problem solving and users as partners to enahnce quality and excellenece in teaching and learning The voice of experience integral to teaching and learning for our future nurses and social workers,etc
A voice to a previously marginalised part of society – service users’ stories can be used as tools for problem solving and users as partners to enahnce quality and excellenece in teaching and learning
15. Healing Narratives Describing the indescribable
A narrative of despair becomes:
A narrative of self-disclosure –
A narrative of hope
A narrative of recovery
A narrative a self-affirmation
“Having lived a particular story for years or a lifetime, that story would become part of the teller’s psyche, and the teller would tell from ‘inside’ the story.”
16. Bibliography ‘Women Who Run with the Wolves’ , Clarissa Pinkola Estes , (1998, Rider Books)
‘Emotional Intelligence’, Daniel Goleman,(1996,Bloomsbury Publishing)
‘Social Work – A Companion to learning’ , Mark Lynbery & Karen Postle