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to how we feel about ourselves and others?"

Re: Essential information for doing memory work.
From the desk of: Geraldine Jozefiak
The Craft Teacher

Life story work really can help others through life experiences and challenges.
Yet why is it that some life story sessions work better than others, despite all your
efforts?
If you were to tell me the most difficult problem facing you in your work, which
of the following would you choose?

I'm new to running memory sessions and grateful for some ideas on things that work, written by someone who's done it
As a practised reminiscence worker I've made story books before but am
always interested in new ideas and ways of working

I want to run a project at school and need some practical background material
to help me plan some activities
I'm looking for information about working with memories and some craft projects that are easy to follow
I've never done a project like this before and I don't know where to start
I run reminiscence sessions, and I need ideas on what to do with all the shared stories
I want to create some books with one of my groups and I'm not creative

I'm sure there will be others too. Finding solutions isn't always easy.

There are many reminiscence books, magazines and activity packs that might just
work. But ...

where do you find practical life story project ideas together with suggestions on how to encourage
sharing, note taking and creativity?

Sometimes you find all these things, but is it in down-to-earth language and
in a book that won't close-up when you put it down? And is it set in a tiny,
too small to read 'font'?
What you need in challenging moments is knowing that you can easily
read the material without the aid of a magnifying glass!

Let me tell you how I came to be involved in memory work.

Over the course of a year, I trained volunteers in Life Story Work. Following their
training, the volunteers were placed with families who cared for a dementia sufferer
in their own home.

It was a new and exciting project; the first of its kind in England at the time (1999).
Based in Norwich, Norfolk, UK it was called The Pabulum Project, (latin: mental
nourishment). The project gave me first hand experience of volunteers, training,
dementia and life story work.

It encouraged me to find ways to help sometimes uncreative people to work
towards something unique that could be shared by others.
Note: (The Project's story was written up for my Bachelor of Arts dissertation that followed, gaining
me a 1st Class Honours degree in Post Compulsory Education).

The project offered reminiscence training in creative memory work It was hoped
that this knowledge would help volunteers to work with the ...

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