The Vidaview Life Story Board™
An innovative and versatile therapy, interview, and assessment tool
The name ‘Vidaview’ connotes vida , ‘life’ in Spanish, with ‘view’… looking at life. The Vidaview Life Story Board is a practical toolkit with a magnet receptive game board by which verbal conversation is rendered into visual form through co-construction of a lifescape. The Life Story Board LSB is designed for use by a therapist with client, a qualitative researcher with an interviewee, or for other interactive applications. Storyboarding utilizes a flexible schema of Element Cards, representing physical and mental objects, that are placed on the board’s Zones in meaningful arrangement. LSB functions like a mind map to depict, externalize, see and reflect upon a person’s situation or narrative, as elicited by the dialogical process of co-construction. It opens up multi-sensory pathways for cognitive processing, and therapeutic expression not accessed by verbal modes of interaction.
Here is a 2019 publication about LSB as a visual tactile interview tool: LSB in FQS journal 2019
Life Story Board Workshop Friday May 9, 2025 at Faculty of Social Work, University of Manitoba Upcoming workshop.
For enquiries or information about upcoming workshops, please email: rob.chase@lifestoryboard.ca
The Life Story Board Process
- Facilitates respectful exploration of sensitive issues and difficult material
- Honours diverse cultural backgrounds and personal communication styles
- Supports and integrates with varied counselling frameworks & settings
- Complements conventional verbal interview, assessment, and therapy approaches
- Encourages engagement & sharing with non-verbal or hesitant clients
As a visual, cognitive mapping modality, the applications for LSB are limitless- for personal work, biographical reflection, a writer mapping out a storyline, couples doing personal work .
The photo gallery slider below displays examples of lifescapes from the archives, generated in different sessions. Click on the image to move to a page that explains some of the session’s features.
about the Life Story Board graphic: webpage
