ActiveAging project 3rd webinar “Storytelling”

Project LL-00059 “Promoting Active and Healthy Aging”/Active Aging organizes pilot trainings for specialists on use of “Storytelling /Life stories” method.

The program offers social workers and specialists the opportunity to learn a new tool—the storytelling method—adapted for working with seniors. As a result of the program, social workers and specialists will be able to create stories themselves and teach this skill to seniors. The methodology is simple and suitable for everyone, regardless of age or educational level. It can be used to create a life story covering a person’s entire life journey, the chronicle of a special event, the description of a single day in life, a memory story about a person, the depiction of an emotionally significant event, and more.

By involving seniors in storytelling, social workers can obtain useful information about the significant events in a senior’s life, their daily habits, favorite reading materials and activities, and relationships with other people. Through storytelling, seniors can be guided to reflect on the important events of their lives, recognize their value, share their experiences with others, and feel a sense of belonging to their life, family, and community. Program participants will learn how to encourage and motivate seniors to tell their stories, how to use methodological techniques that form the basis of storytelling, how to support seniors in the storytelling process, and how to present or showcase stories so that the authors derive enjoyment and satisfaction from their work.