Telling lives: women, stories and healing
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Paper/Presentation Title | Telling lives: women, stories and healing |
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Presentation Type | Paper |
Authors | Crimmins, Gail (Author), Jones, Janice (Author), Loch, Sarah (Author), Black, Ali (Author) and Albion, Lisa (Author) |
Journal or Proceedings Title | Conference Program of the 1st Narrative, Health and Wellbeing Research Conference: Enlightened: Narratives and Narrative Strategies to Awaken Applied and Creative Humanism |
Number of Pages | 2 |
Year | 2016 |
Conference/Event | 1st Narrative, Health and Wellbeing Research Conference: Enlightened: Narratives and Narrative Strategies to Awaken Applied and Creative Humanism |
Event Details | 1st Narrative, Health and Wellbeing Research Conference: Enlightened: Narratives and Narrative Strategies to Awaken Applied and Creative Humanism Event Date 08 Feb 2016 Event Location Central Queensland University, Noosa |
Abstract | Over a year seven women agree to think about, write, and share narratives of living, surviving and being in the afternoon of their lives. During this year we use forms of communication that embrace poetry, image, song and story to create a polyvocal account of women’s lives, voices, struggles and learning. What emerges during the deep and vulnerable personal writing, and the intimate and collective feedback and sharing of stories during writing workshops, is both empowering and healing. From sharing, reading and talking 'about' our writing, we find self-empowerment, affirmation, validation, support, encouragement and dignity and (re)discover both our unique and shared journeys as women. In making our stories public, stories we have not revealed before, storiesof lives we didn’t choose or imagine but of lives we are given and are living through, we listen, hear, recognise and acknowledge experience – our own and others’. As we listen and hear we connect to ourselves and to the diversity, uniqueness, strength and depth of other women. And in so doing we find connection, healing and renewed courage to live meaningfully and wholly. |
Keywords | narrative, wellbeing, writing together, women as writers, feminism, storied experience, polyvocality, womens' lives, writing |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 390303. Higher education |
Public Notes | Abstract only published in Conference Program. |
Byline Affiliations | University of the Sunshine Coast |
School of Linguistics, Adult and Specialist Education | |
University of Technology Sydney | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q3447/telling-lives-women-stories-and-healing
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