Dear Friends

We hope this email finds you well and happily settled into the new year.

As our most recent newsletter only went out in December, it's too soon for a
full-blown report of our activities, but we thought you might be interested
in some of the events with which we will be involved over the coming months.

HUMANISING HEALTHCARE RETREAT
We plan to hold a two-day retreat for managers, educators, clinicians and
decision makers in healthcare and public health to consider the ways in
which digital storytelling can be used to ensure that healthcare design and
delivery are both human and humane, holding patients, their carers and
families at the heart of their endeavours. We hope to gather a small but
committed group of people from Canada, the US and the UK to deepen our
understanding of the uses of digital storytelling in healthcare and
healthcare education through reflection and discussion, and then to move
forward with suggestions and plans for implementation.

Dates: May 18/19
Place: Vancouver, British Columbia

We would love to know whether you are interested in attending, so that we
can begin to make appropriate arrangements for accommodation.

INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR SHARING LIFE STORIES
(Press release from CDS)
This campaign is about helping all of us to claim a day to step out of our
accelerated lives and celebrate each other's stories. We would like all
our friends to think about how they can use Friday, May 16 (or the weekend
of May 17-18) as a time for listening to stories, even it is just holding a
storycircle at lunch at work, or around the dinner table that night.

Please consider getting involved in the campaign by coming to the website to
share stories and comments, joining our Facebook community, or contacting us
by email,
internacionalday@... to find out ways to help spread the word,
to endorse the campaign, or to let us know what events you are planning for
the day. Already over 150 organizations and individuals from 33 countries
have endorsed the campaign.

PILGRIM PROJECTS/PATIENT VOICES DIGITAL STORYTELLING WORKSHOPS
Attached is our schedule of workshops for the next six months. Places are
still available on March and April workshops. Please contact us if you would
like further information.

As always, we welcome your thoughts, comments, questions, suggestions about
the Patient Voices stories and we would love to hear how you have used them
in your teaching or in your clinical practice.

Kind regards

Pip Hardy and Tony Sumner


Pilgrim Projects Limited
91 Waterbeach Road
Landbeach
Cambridge CB25 9FA
UK

Tel: 44 (0)1223 440257
Fax: 44 (0)1223 863826
Mob: 44(0)7721 751784

www.pilgrimprojects.co.uk
www.patientvoices.org.uk

Company number 3930523
VAT registration number 571418737