Story-based Clinical Approach
Story-based Clinical Approach
Our Story-based Clinical Approach is a unique answer to finding a motivating way to help people change the behaviours that are damaging their health and wellbeing.
It is now an important component of a new methodology for changing habits called The Lund Initiative – which is designed specifically for an age in which people need support and advice, but are unable or unwilling to see therapists physically.
Through millennia, humans have communicated their history, learning, and advice through the creation of stories. Stories captivate us, inspire us and move us – both emotionally and in how we choose to live our lives.
When seeking to improve our emotional and physical wellbeing, learning vicariously through stories and metaphors tends to be more effective than receiving direct advice.
Story-telling underpins all our ELK.Media programmes for psychoeducation and the prevention of health issues.
Our aim is for people to understand their emotions and the way their minds work through stories… and this means that learning becomes a natural and enjoyable process.
The power of story-telling
Stories are at the very heart of the human condition. They are how we learn about cultures, religions, history, science… Wherever we go, we are drawn into stories: bookshops, blogs, magazines, newspapers, radio, television, cinema; they all move us. Stories bring about change to stuck attitudes more effectively than any other vehicle.
Our Story-based Clinical Approach is an exciting development in global wellbeing care.
It is unique
in that it addresses two major difficulties everyone working in wellbeing encounters:
– How to prevent the person using a programme (designed to help them) from getting too bored to continue
and
– How to help people, who have long-held beliefs about how the shape and nature of their life should be, to break away from their prejudices and investigate new ways to be alive and be happy.
NISAD has opened a new facility in Dundalk, Ireland to attract, support and nurture “saga”.
It’s a co-operative project by two nations influenced by the Celtic and Viking traditions of story: Ireland and Sweden.
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