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A patient volunteered to share her story in a LSB session, as former child soldier, and now single mother who emigrated as refugee to Canada, now with a work injury, dealing with chronic pain.
I prepared a fictional vignette of a story such as hers, to illustrate the Life Story Board schema rendering narrative into visual form, as a ‘lifescape’ . [“Call Me Angela”]
Dr. Robert Chase MD and Dr. Javier Mignone Phd, University of Manitoba, discuss the life story board tool as an interactive interview technique, including set-up, zones, schema, and a demonstration. Chase, R., & Mignone, J., (Academics). (2023). An introduction to the Life Story Board tool [Video}/ Sage Research Methods weblink: https://methods.sagepub.com/video/an-introduction-to-the-life-story-board-tool
Newcomer Worker Voices Matter: Learning from the Group Story
https://ohcmb.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/NewcomerVoicesMatter2016.pdf
In a 2016 pilot test of in the occupational health context, five women in the Vietnamese community who work in a chicken processing plant were invited to share the story of their migration and work lives in a digitally recorded interview using the Life Story Board. Their transcribed interviews were reviewed to identify common experiences. In a second phase, they were invited to meet as a group to discuss talk their experiences, their shared problems and possible solutions to improve working conditions.
The participants’ feedback about the Life Story Board process was very positive participants’ feedback
In the worker’s lifescape above, the square and round cards are for Persons, colour coded for family, work, health. Along the top is the timeline, from past to future, left to right, upon which Place, Event and Act Cards follow their migration, employment and pathway to the work they do now. In the centre is a clockwheel to depict their shift rotations in processing and packaging, labelled in the hexagonal Activity Cards Th eBody Card lower left to marks sites of soreness and injury
“Stories of Newcomer Workers in Manitoba’s Food Processing Industry”
As part of the Occupational Health Centre’s 2018 project “Building Support for Newcomer Workers in the Food Processing Industry”, funded by the WCB Grant Program, 11 newcomer workers in the Eritrean (Tigrinya speaking) and Chinese (Mandarin) communities were interviewed using LSB. After the individual interviews, both groups were presented with summary results of the interviews, and asked to identify and prioritize additional concerns, and to suggest recommendations to employer, the union, and Westman Immigrant Services to better support them.
https://ohcmb.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Stories-of-Newcomer-Workers-in-Manitoba-3.pdf
