Story Sharing
Everyone should be able to share their stories
Great event today from Learning Disability England https://www.learningdisabilityengland.org.uk
Lovely presentations from Campaign4Change with a beautiful film showing how to achieve community presence https://www.achievetogether.co.uk/about/campaign-for-change-c4c
And stories from parents about how they support and work with their young adults to make things happen. Thanks to all
We are delighted to celebrate the achievements of Ashleigh Paddon, Jess Meredith Wickes and Jade Cook. Ashleigh is a Speech and Language therapist who has a wonderful website at https://the-therapy-tree.com; Jess is well known to you all as one of the stars of Abbie’s hospital visit, and has been using Storysharing for some years; Jade Cook is the Director of Spectrum Community Arts (www.spectrumca.co.uk ). Looking forward to exploring new directions for Storysharing in 2021.
NAC (Nonverbal Affective Care) has been set up by Julie Calveley to provide resources for well being in children and adults with profound and multiple disabilities. Happy to say that Storysharing® features on the site. Lots to love and read here!!
The world may still be topsy turvey but there are lots of Storysharing® developments to celebrate. We are exploring how to combine our work with other approaches. First event is Storysharing and Story Massage Thursday 21st January 4.30pm-5.30pm.. book here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/personal-storysharing-with-story-massage-tickets-135703014369
Sharing stories with Key Word Sign is on Thursday February 18th 4.30-5.30pm. So many people with communication difficulties use signing, but often the focus is just on learning more single signs. With Charlotte Parkhouse and Gareth Smith from Communicapers (https://www.communicapers.co.uk) we explore new research on their creative use of sign and gesture in conversation and storytelling. Book here
(https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sharing-stories-with-key-word-signers-tickets-136270309163
Sharing stories with Key Word Signers is on Thursday February 18th 4.30-5.30pm
And in March we will be looking into self advocacy and Storysharing.
These events are free to parents and carers, please email info@storysharing.org.uk for a code