Capturing Essence for Care
Capturing Essence for Care
Podcast Description
Capturing Essence for Care focuses on the importance of incorporating personal life stories into health care and through each episode, Lisa invites guests and listeners to share their ideas and insights from their own experiences. We dive into various ways we can capture our own essence and have meaningful conversations about all types of storytelling methods, including through writing, video, voice, visuals and so much more! Join Lisa for solo episodes and interviews with diverse storytellers including personal historians, digital storytellers, guided autobiography instructors, healthcare practitioners among many others.
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Content Themes
The podcast delves into personal narratives, care transformations, and storytelling methodologies with specific episodes exploring topics like the impact of sharing life stories on dementia care and techniques for guided autobiography, emphasizing the exploratory nature of personal histories.
Capturing Essence for Care: Storytelling That Promotes Personhood in Healthcare Settings
Feeling rushed through patient interactions? Struggling to see the person behind the diagnosis?
Transform your senior care relationships in just minutes with evidence-based storytelling strategies that honour personhood in healthcare settings.
Listen for practical tools to:
- Open deeper conversations with seniors, even with limited time.
- Access life story approaches that reduce caregiver burnout.
- Hear real conversations with people with lived experience including persons living with dementia.
- Implement person-centred care that improves outcomes through meaningful connections.
Host Lisa brings together personal historians, digital storytellers, healthcare practitioners, and seniors themselves. Each episode delivers actionable insights for busy care teams seeking to capture essence through storytelling, writing, visual methods and more.
Perfect for: Healthcare providers, long term care staff, nursing home workers, home health aides, personal support workers, memory care teams, geriatric nurses, social workers, recreation, life enrichment and activity staff, family caregivers, and anyone passionate about promoting personhood through older adults’ stories.
Join healthcare workers already transforming their practice. Start honouring the whole person behind every patient chart—follow today and discover how small conversations create profound care connections.
Dr. Flora Brown shares her journey as a life story coach and guided autobiography facilitator, revealing how childhood experiences eavesdropping in her mother's beauty shop shaped her passion for helping others capture their life stories. She discusses the transformative power of personal storytelling and how it helps people gain new perspectives on their experiences.
Discussion Points:
• Combining Digital Storytelling (DST) with Guided Autobiography (GAB) to create powerful personal narratives
• The importance of creating safe spaces for people to share their stories
• How childhood dreams can shape our adult lives and career paths
• Overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs through storytelling
• The therapeutic benefits of writing personal stories, even if never shared publicly
• Building community through shared storytelling experiences
• Dr. Brown's upcoming book ”Beyond the White Picket Fence” featuring micro-memoirs
• The power of reflection in understanding our life journey
Check out Flora's Digital Story co-created with Lisa: The Impact of Stories
Learn more about Guided Autobiography
Connect with Flora:
- Website: florabrown.com
- Facebook group—Your Life Story Matters
- Substack: https://substack.com/%40florabrown
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/florabrown2u/#
Flora's books: https://amazon.com/author/florabrown
Download her free ebook to discover what's blocking you from writing your life story and surprisingly simple ways to topple every one.
Thank you for listening!
Do you have a question or a topic related to ”capturing essence for care” that you would like discussed on the podcast? Send Lisa an email: [email protected]
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Intro and outro music with thanks: Upbeat and Sweet No Strings by Musictown
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