scholarly journals INTEREST GROUP SESSION—REMINISCENCE, LIFE STORY AND NARRATIVE: RESEARCH AND PRACTICE: WISDOM OF THE ELDERS: ART, MEDICINE, NARRATIVES, AND POETRY

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S568-S569
Author(s):  
Ifeoma Nwankwo ◽  
Monika Ardelt
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Healthy Aging ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Active Listening ◽  
Community Engaged Research ◽  
Environmental Events ◽  
Listening Strategies ◽  
Creative Writing Workshops ◽  
Vanderbilt University

Abstract The Wisdom of the Elders (WOE) is a series of autobiography production workshops conducted since 2012 through a collaboration among community, university, and municipal partners. Beginning in Murfreesboro, TN it has since been replicated in New Orleans, LA. The Wisdom of the Elders project has many elements, including life history interviews, creative writing workshops, and creative expressions that allowed elders to share their wisdom with younger generations. Our focus was to understand how personal characteristics and historical/environmental events interact to influence healthy aging. Later work extended to interviewing older hospitalized patients in order to gain insight into intergenerational themes. The interdisciplinary team has also used poetry and reflection to train healthcare professionals and caregivers to use active listening strategies to better understand how patients cope with life-changing illnesses, and how they incorporate the challenges of those illnesses into rich, fulfilling lives. WOE has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, the Meharry-Vanderbilt Community Engaged Research Core, and the Department of English, the College of Arts and Science Dean’s Office, and the Chancellor’s Higher Education Fellowship at Vanderbilt University. WOE has led to the formation of an interdisciplinary research and publication collaborative featuring distinguished clinicians, artists, and scholars from Creative Writing, Education, Geriatrics, Interprofessional Learning, Psychology, and Public Humanities.

Tony Earley

2020 ◽  
pp. 603-615
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Creative Writing ◽  
San Antonio ◽  
Blue Ridge ◽  
University Of Alabama ◽  
Blue Ridge Mountains ◽  
The University ◽  
Vanderbilt University ◽  
Wilson College

Tony Earley was born in San Antonio, Texas, and grew up in North Carolina near the Blue Ridge Mountains. He graduated from Warren Wilson College in 1983 and earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of Alabama. Since 1997 he has taught writing at Vanderbilt University....

scholarly journals REALIDADE E FICÇÃO, TRAUMA E AFETO: A AUTOPOIESIS NAS OFICINAS DE ESCRITA CRIATIVA * REALITY AND FICTION, TRAUMA AND AFFECTION. AUTOPOIESIS IN THE CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOPS

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 96
Author(s):  
Geruza Zelnys de Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Therapeutic Potential ◽  
The Body ◽  
Process Writing ◽  
Literary Discourse ◽  
Writing Workshops ◽  
Creation Process ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Creative Writing Workshops

Resumo: O texto discute a relação entre realidade e ficção, bem como o trânsito entre uma e outra, a partir do trauma como elemento desestabilizador no discurso literário. Essa reflexão toma como base a instância autoral em processo de criação – escritura e leitura – nas oficinas de escrita criativa, analisando como a irrupção dos estilhaços de trauma convocam o corpo a ser com o corpus em performance coreográfica, o que hiperexcita os corpos tornando-os espaços de agenciamento. Nos momentos de escuta e partilha, favorecidos pela mediação atenta ao arquivo insubmisso do real, pode se observar o processo autopoiético sobre o qual se estruturam as múltiplas aprendizagens – especialmente de si – deflagrando as potencialidades provocativas, educativas e terapêuticas das oficinas, que as tornam suportes indispensáveis à educação não-formal.Palavras-Chave: ficção, trauma, afeto, autopoiesis, oficinas de escrita criativa Abstract: The paper discusses the relationship between reality and fiction, as well as the intersections between one and another, from trauma as a destabilizing element in literary discourse. This reflection is based on authorial instance in its creation process - writing and reading - in the workshops of creative writing. The paper mains analyze how the irruption of trauma convoke the body to be with the corpus in choreographic performance, which hiper excite the bodies turning it in assemblage space. In moments of listening and sharing, favored by mediation attentive to the real's unsubmissive file, it is possible to see the autopoietic process on which the multiple learning are structured, triggering the provocative, educational and therapeutic potential of workshops, which make it necessary supports for the non-formal education.Keywords: fiction, trauma, affection, autopoiesis, creative writing workshops

scholarly journals La comunicación en mediación social y su oportunidad para el desarrollo comunitario

2019 ◽  
pp. 159
Author(s):  
Emilia Iglesias Ortuño ◽  
Enrique Pastor Seller ◽  
Luis Miguel Rondón García
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Active Listening ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mediator Role ◽  
Toma De Decisiones ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Listening Strategies ◽  
Social Empowerment ◽  
Los Grupos

El desarrollo comunitario favorece la transformación de las estructuras y sinergias sociales y conduce a los grupos sociales a una convivencia social generadora de bienestar. Nuestro objetivo principal es identificar las habilidades de comunicación del mediador profesional para facilitar los procesos de toma de decisiones y diálogo con el fin de generar iniciativas para el desarrollo de los grupos sociales. El estudio es cualitativo descriptivo y que aplica un instrumento de encuesta autocumplimentada a una muestra representativa de mediadores sociales en activo en la comunidad Catalana. Como resultados principales destaca la competencia comunicadora como eje central del rol mediador, que ha de emplear para favorecer las estrategias de diálogo eficaz y escucha activa entre las partes en conflicto. Además de la identificación del mediador como agente de desarrollo social al incidir en el empoderamiento social de los implicados y favoreciendo su autopercepción como agentes activos socialmente.Community development improves the transformation of social structures and synergies, also leads social groups to a social coexistence that generates welfare. Our main objective is to identify the professional mediator’s communication skills wich facilitate decision-making and dialogue processes in order to generate initiatives for the development of social groups. This study is qualitative descriptive and applies a self-fulfilling survey instrument to a representative sample of active social mediators in Catalonia (Spain). As main results, communication skills should be emphasized as the central role of the mediator role, which should be used to promote effective dialogue and active listening strategies among the parties to the conflict. In addition to the identification of the mediator as an agent of social development by influencing the social empowerment of those involved and favoring their self-perception as socially active agents.

scholarly journals ILLNESS AND THE LANGUAGE OF POETRY

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S569-S569
Author(s):  
Destiny Birdsong
Keyword(s):  
Continuing Education ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Visual Learning ◽  
Hiv Positive ◽  
Active Listening ◽  
Listening Skills ◽  
Listening Strategies ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract Two interactive workshops were conducted: one for training healthcare professionals in nursing, PT, and pharmacy, and another for the continuing education for caregivers of HIV-positive patients. Active Listening and Visual Learning Strategies for Healthcare Professionals discussed the importance of using active listening skills to better hear, understand, and treat patients. Activities included viewing one WOE respondent’s artwork and hearing a clip of the respondent’s interview, followed by a facilitated discussion of how the respondent’s story about her childhood shed light on her art. Additionally two published poems about bodies and illness were shared, with discussion of how each poem’s circuitous narrative nature offered clues about the speaker’s illness and outlook on life. Cultural Humility’s activities focused on utilizing poetry to discuss how caregivers can use active listening strategies to better understand how patients cope with life-changing illnesses, and how they incorporate the challenges of those illnesses into rich, fulfilling lives.

scholarly journals 2528

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (S1) ◽  
pp. 82-82
Author(s):  
Rhonda G. Kost ◽  
Rhonda G. Kost ◽  
Kimberly Vasquez ◽  
Dozene Guishard ◽  
William Dionne ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Healthy Aging ◽  
Underserved Populations ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Community Services ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Multiple Chronic Conditions ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Engaged Research

OBJECTIVES/SPECIFIC AIMS: The Rockefeller University-Center for Clinical and Translational Science and Clinical Directors Network (RU-CCTS/CDN) community-academic-partnership engaged with Carter Burden Center for the Aging (CBCA), a multisite senior community services organization serving Upper Eastside and East Harlem, NY, to develop community-engaged research. Many seniors served by CBCA are racial/ethnic minorities, live in poverty, suffer from multiple chronic conditions, depression, and food insecurity; there is no simple measure routinely used to characterize the health/health risks of program participants. Multiple biological, musculoskeletal, psychosocial and nutritional factors collectively contribute to frailty a construct that is variously defined, and has been used as a surrogate or predictor for health outcomes. Aim 1: We will engage seniors, CBCA leadership, New York City Department for the Aging, staff and other stakeholders in research priority-setting, joint protocol writing, research conduct, analysis and dissemination to cultivate a population of elder stakeholders interested in designing and participating in this and future research. Aim 2: We will characterize the health status of the resident and nonresident populations by collecting data across 3 sessions to include validated cardio-metabolic, musculoskeletal, chronic condition prevalence, quality of life, psychosocial, and nutritional assessments. METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: Stakeholders will be engaged through the process of Community Engaged Research Navigation and a series of meetings and exercises to refine priorities and research design, co-write the protocol, provide feedback on conduct, analyze and disseminate results of the project. RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: Outcomes will include rates of participation and retention in assessments and engagement activities, themes from qualitative research, contributions to study design, placement of aims on the T0-T48 spectrum, social network analysis, classification of engagement on the spectrum of Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR) and partnership assessment. The primary outcome is frailty (6-minute walk test); We will examine associations among these measures with services utilization data captured electronically by CBCA. A key deliverable of this project will be a REDCap data capture platform that integrates and displays these measures that will be sustainable for CBCA. DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE OF IMPACT: This practice-based research partnership will allow us to extract, replicate and extend the lessons learned about engaging stakeholders in generating hypotheses, operationalizing research, collecting and analyzing data, and disseminating results. The collaboration is built around generating and testing rigorous clinical an health services hypotheses that are derived from real-world practice-based needs and also incorporate basic science measures to embed and examine mechanistic hypotheses. Testing a simple to implement validated surrogate frailty measure will accelerate progress on evidence-based practices to test interventions that enhance healthy aging and serve as a model for future similar partnerships to form a network for community-based senior research. This work aligns with the RU-CCTS grant Hub Research goal to engage populations across the life span, including hard-to-reach and underserved populations, such as minority seniors.

scholarly journals (In)dependent meaning: Representations of addiction and recovery in selected poems produced in a rehabilitation centre

Literator ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoinette Pretorius ◽  
Andy Carolin ◽  
Reinhardt Fourie ◽  
Lida Krüger
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Drug Rehabilitation ◽  
Clinical Context ◽  
Rehabilitation Centre ◽  
Writing Workshops ◽  
Individual Agency ◽  
Societal Expectations ◽  
Creative Writing Workshops

In this article we provide a close reading of selected poems written during creative writing workshops at a drug rehabilitation centre. We argue that these poems expose some of the uncertainties and complexities that characterise the representation of identity in experiences of addiction and recovery. We show that the speakers in these poems attempt to imagine and represent their experiences in language through a number of structuring binaries. These binaries include those between the speaker’s experiences of active addiction and recovery, and the speaker’s personal experience versus societal expectations and perceptions. Our reading of these poems is informed by the clinical context in which they were written, and our analysis reflects the bifurcation that governs this liminal space. Individual agency in these different spheres is approached in a very tentative way, and the speakers in these poems are shown to have trouble envisioning the future at the same time as their pasts appear unsettled. We argue finally that while current discourses and vocabularies surrounding addiction seem incomplete and inadequate for the expression of some complex experiences, poetry provides a platform that accommodates ambivalence and a multiplicity of meanings.

scholarly journals Active Listening Strategies of Academically Successful University Students

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (60) ◽  
pp. 163-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murat Canpolat ◽  
Sekvan Kuzu ◽  
Bilal Yıldırım ◽  
Sevilay Canpolat
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Academically Successful ◽  
Active Listening ◽  
Listening Strategies
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