Hello all, great to hear how the patient voices are getting about
Pip. I am new member everyone and I have become very enthusiastic
about digital storytelling having been on one of Pip and Tonys
workshops recently. I do hope to be able to keep an eye on this list
to stay up to date with what everyone doing with digital storytelling.
All the best for now. Julie

--- In patientvoices@yahoogroups.com, "Pip Hardy" <pip@...> wrote:
>
> I hope this message finds you all well.
>
> This has been a bumper few weeks for conferences and presentations
> about digital storytelling and the Patient Voices programme.
>
> Early September set the scene for a presentation at the Nurse
> Education Tomorrow conference in Cambridge about a project in which
> we used digital storytelling methodology to facilitate a conference
> looking at the use of new technology in healthcare - a mere car
> journey away.
>
> At the end of October, I flew to Calgary and joined Michelle
Spencer,
> Canadian representative for the Center for Digital Storytelling, to
> present at the Chronic Disease Management and Prevention
Conference -
> to my relief, only 25 or so of the 700 delegates elected to attend
> our workshop! But there was a good deal of interest in how digital
> storytelling could be used in that context, not least in respect of
> spiritual care. There were also some excellent, stimulating and
> thought-provoking presentations - and a mysteriously low
> representation from the UK.
>
> Last week, a long train journey landed me in the delightfully-
distant
> and unspoiled small town of Grange-over-Sands - a slight misnomer
in
> view of the marsh grass that has taken over the sand - for the
> Authenticity to Action conference, at which I presented three
papers
> about various aspects of the Patient Voices work, and supported one
> other presentation about a very specific application of digital
> storytelling: in continence care, as it happens!
>
> After a weekend in which to catch my breath, Monday saw 100% of
> Pilgrim Projects staff at the NHS Live! regional event at the
> International Conference Centre in Birmingham (UK) where Tony had a
> stand and I facilitated two short workshops about Patient Voices.
It
> was a much more enjoyable experience than I had anticipated, in no
> small part due to some of the comments about the workshop, which
> people seemed to enjoy. And Tony's inimitable approach to stand
> management must have had some impact as there were a record 3000+
> hits on the website yesterday!
>
> All good wishes
>
> Pip
>