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Capturing Essence for Care: Storytelling that Promotes Personhood in Healthcare
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.
Episodes
13 episodes
12. From Ministry to Memory Care: The Simple Conversation Starters That Unlock Life's Sacred Stories
Whitney Myers, owner and founder of Sacred Stories, shares how personal storytelling through video preserves legacies and enhances care. Her background in ministry, memory care, and family documentation created a natural path toward helping oth...
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Episode 12
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32:19
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11. Beyond the Chart: How Visual Stories are Healing Healthcare
Visual narratives can impact healthcare by humanizing patient experiences and reconnecting clinical expertise with empathy. Krystle Schofield reveals how by sharing her own journey from photographer to digital storyteller.Key Me...
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Episode 11
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36:11
10. Digital Storytelling from a Nursing Perspective: How 3-Minute Patient Videos Improve Care
Show Notes:Maureen Leier, a registered nurse in public health and digital storyteller, joins Lisa to explore how integrating personal life stories into healthcare transforms the quality of care and creates meaningful connections between ...
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Episode 10
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43:33
9. The Power of Reframing Your Caregiving Story with Ron Beleno
Ron Beleno is an active advocate for dementia, caregiving, aging and research communities. From lived experience, he encourages others to transform the challenging caregiving journey into one of growth and resilience through his innovativ...
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Episode 9
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46:03
8. Reclaiming Narrative Agency: How Stories Empower Persons Living with Dementia
About Our GuestLaura Bowley is the Director of Communications & Development for To Whom I May Concern®, and a senior facilitator and trainer. Since 2012, Laura has collaborated with Maureen Matthews, blending particip...
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Episode 8
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53:27
7. Family Story Preservation: How Video Biographies Save Memories
Preserving Family Stories: The Urgent Need for Video BiographyWhen family voices fade into silence, irreplaceable stories disappear forever. Sean Daigle, founder of Memoria Films, shares why capturing video biographies is...
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Episode 7
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42:04
6. Why Baby Boomers Aren't Preparing for Aging (And How Person-Centred Care Can Help)
The oldest Baby Boomers will turn 80 in just four years, yet most aren't preparing for aging. Why do we avoid these crucial conversations?In this episode, I explore the gap between our aging reality and our readiness, drawing from...
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Episode 6
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12:11
5. Storytelling as Healing: Kristy Wolfe on Vulnerability and Authenticity in Digital Narratives
Show NotesKristy Wolfe is a digital storytelling facilitator and a Wolfe Pack Warrior. She believes there is beauty in every story and she champions real stories in marketing and co...
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Episode 5
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33:44
4. Digital Life Stories for Person-Centered Care: How Echobox Memory Vault Enhances Healthcare Storytelling
Show Notes:Tim and Tannis Roberts take time to share about the evolution of Echobox Memory Vault, a storytelling, memory-keeping, ad-free technology that can enhance quality of life for individuals by having opportunities to share...
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Episode 4
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25:53
3. The Art and Science of Digital Storytelling: Dr. Mike Lang on Reshaping Healthcare Through Patient Narratives
Dr. Mike Lang is a Digital Storytelling Specialist, Researcher, Film Director/Producer and Social Entrepreneur. He shares with us what Digital Storytelling is and the impact it has as it relates to making positive change in healthcare pol...
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Episode 3
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37:57
2. Hidden Visual Treasures: How Home Videos Can Revolutionize Personalized Dementia Care
Have you ever thought about how pictures and videos that you already have stored away somewhere could be used to enhance your own health care experience? Join me as I share my own shift in caring for someone after seeing a daughter...
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Episode 2
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6:18
1. Living with Dignity: Dementia Advocate Mary Beth Wighton on Capturing Essence and Improving Healthcare
Join our discussion with Mary Beth Wighton, inspiring international dementia advocate, writer and speaker as we talk about what it's like living with a diagnosis of probable Frontal Temporal Dementia and learn how she captures her essence. &nbs...
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Episode 1
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38:49
Capturing Essence for Care: Life Stories Transforming Healthcare Experiences
Capturing Essence for Care: Stories to Transform HealthcareJoin Lisa Joworski, Therapeutic Recreation and Life Story Resource specialist, as she explores how sharing our personal narratives can reduce judgments and transform pat...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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3:27