As part of the Storyliving project, the course on the use of storytelling for those working with young people with mental health disorders was piloted with 119 Greek, Italian, German, Spanish and Macedonian psychologists, personal assistants, carers, teachers, therapists, special…
Narrative is the symbolic representation of a sequence of events, and storytelling can be defined as a form of narrative. Children typically write their stories using symbolic pictures; through these pictures they create a sequence with a plot that tells…
Humans are born with an innate ability to create and share stories with others. Storytelling is everywhere, from talking about everyday experiences and events to describing a break-up with our romantic partners. The discipline of ‘narrative psychology’, which emerged in…
Finally, our Storyliving team met in person in Athens to discuss the next steps of the project! We hadn’t been able to meet earlier in the project due to the restrictions caused by the pandemic. On the 5th and 6th…
StoryLiving supports digital storytelling as a method for overcoming and process emotions, fears, traumas and isolation and as communication and healing tool. The project develops guidelines and training material for professionals and organisations working with this target group to support…
StoryLiving project promotes digital storytelling as a methodology and as a communication and healing tool for youth living with ASD and other mental health disorders. Storytelling generally indicates a linear narration built round three main elements: the beginning of the…
During the past months, the consortium undertook comprehensive research activities – both desk and field research – and explored the effects of COVID-19 pandemic for youth living with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and other mental or development disorders. For the…
The project StoryLiving – Enabling youth with developmental disabilities & mental health disorders to share their COVID-19 experiences through digital storytelling aims at overcoming the challenges that youth with developmental disabilities and mental health disorders is facing uring the pandemic…
We are pleased to announce a new project on storytelling. We can draw on some experience from previous projects. The particular challenge here is that it is digital storytelling to give young people with with ASD and other mental disorders…