Hi June, You asked about how we used stories in health promotion. I want to preface my answer by saying that we used the methodology developed by Ron Labonte and Joan Feather at the Prairie Region Health Promotion Research Centre, called "A Structured Dialogue in Health Promotion". They have published a detailed handbook which you can probably access through them. For the workshops I organized for Health Canada (HPPB), we brought health promoters together to tell their personal stories on the theme of "involving the target population". They told their stories in small groups, discussed and analyzed them, and took notes about what was important, what could be learned from the stories. In plenary, participants then analyzed all the insights and learnings, and came up with many interesting conclusions about the theme, and about how to do health promotion, in general. We also talked about how they could use stories in their communities. An interesting twist to the process was bringing francophones and anglophones together in a bilingual workshop in New Brunswick. All in all, it was a very rich experience in learning about what works and what doesn't in health promotion. A report of the workshops will be available soon. If you would like more info, please contact me directly, or better yet, contact Joan Feather at the PRHPRC, [log in to unmask] Cheers! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Susan Lilley NS Facilitator, Community Health Promotion Network Atlantic URL: "http://www.ccn.cs.dal.ca/CommunitySupport/CHPNA/CHPNAHome.html" [log in to unmask] Communication en francais ou en anglais! On Tue, 7 May 1996, June Kaminski wrote: > Hi Susan, > > Could you elaborate on how you use stories in health promotion? > > Thanks kindly, > > June Kaminski, RN MSN > > Kwantlen University College >