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Friends of the Earth have created a very powerful short plea for the “men in suits” to act on what they already know to avert disaster due to climate change. Using a child as narrator and some clever visual storytelling, the video is a graphic summary of the problem and the need for urgency. I found [Continue reading Video conversations tap storytelling techniques] Having moved so many times in my adult life, I’ve rarely had the chance to really connect with “my” doctors. Some make it easier than others. They are the ones who know how to listen, who want to know the context of whatever symptoms walk through the door. They want to know my story. A doctor [Continue reading Hey, Doc, I’m a story, not just a symptom] Regular readers of Story Route and those of you who are Facebook friends will likely recognize A Storied Career. It’s Kathy Hansen’s “Blog to explore traditional and postmodern forms/uses of storytelling”. Even in the middle of a cross-country move, Kathy continues to post provocative and fascinating entries on a dizzyingly wide array of storytelling topics. So [Continue reading The storytelling labyrinth] Electronic medical records (EMR) are a boon to doctors. They gather all information about patients in one convenient place, easily accessed when someone presents a new set of symptoms or some variation of the old. As the patient’s story unfolds, her doctor can scroll through the appropriate records, underpinning the narrative with knowledge of previous [Continue reading Doctors learning new ways to hear stories] Our Stories conference logo Without a doubt, the best organizational storytelling conference I’ve ever participated in was the Our Stories conference in 2007. Sponsored by Vancouver (Canada) Coastal Health, it drew an enthusiastic audience of 230 health professionals. The conference co-sponsors were AHIP, the Aboriginal Health Initiative Program, and the Sharon Martin Community Health Fund. AHIP’s [Continue reading Demonstrating Change through Storytelling] A few months into a new job as Food and Health Project Manager for Interior Health (the health authority that serves British Columbia’s southeast region), I was asked to lead a storytelling workshop at the Population Health conference. The invitation was not totally out of the blue. Storytelling had been part of my community development work [Continue reading Storytelling in health care] |
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