I am presenting a paper at the annual Oral History Society Conference July 13-14, 2012 at Southampton Solent University. This year’s conference is titled Childhoods: Oral History and Traumatic Experiences.
I will be addressing the question - How do we work with traumatic stories through oral history, life writing and performance in a creative and healing way, and to avoid re-traumatisation?
This presentation will offer a guide of good practice for working with traumatic auto/biographical stories. The guide is grounded in Judith Lewis Herman’s psychotherapeutic model of recovery from trauma, and draws on the research, ideas and practices of prominent writers, storytellers/performers, psychotherapists and trauma theorists including Joyce Kornblatt, Nancy Mellon and Louise de Salvo.
I will be addressing the question - How do we work with traumatic stories through oral history, life writing and performance in a creative and healing way, and to avoid re-traumatisation?
This presentation will offer a guide of good practice for working with traumatic auto/biographical stories. The guide is grounded in Judith Lewis Herman’s psychotherapeutic model of recovery from trauma, and draws on the research, ideas and practices of prominent writers, storytellers/performers, psychotherapists and trauma theorists including Joyce Kornblatt, Nancy Mellon and Louise de Salvo.
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