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Making Recovery Real - Sharing stories and experiences
Date recorded: 26 February 2009
With lived experience at the heart of recovery, how do we ensure stories and experience are shared in a way that is respectful and meaningful for all parties? This session features presentations from:
  • Tricia Burnet
  • Rob MacKay, Robert Gordon University
  • Heidi Tweedie, Moxie Media / HUG

“Who am I now?”
Tricia Burnet
Some 10 years since first sharing her recovery story, Tricia talks about how her story and her feelings about sharing it have changed. She also reflects on a research project she completed last year as part of an MSc in Psychology and Mental Health - the project was about recovering identity.



icon Parallel session audio recording: Tricia Burnett - Who am I now? (20.12 MB)
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What matters with personal narratives?
Rob Mackay , Robert Gordon University
This brief presentation summarises the results of the conversations Rob had with 12 individuals across Scotland who tell their own story of recovery in public places.  He shares the meaning of this story telling for these individuals as well as identifying dilemmas and issues that have come out of this experience. The presentation stresses the central importance of support and the need for self-awareness.



icon Parallel session audio recording: Rob MacKay - What matters with personal narratives? (19.48 MB)

icon Parallel session presentation: Rob MacKay - What matters with personal narrative? (584.67 kB)
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Good practice story sharing - an introduction to the SRN publication 'Story Sharing Guidance'.
Heidi Tweedie, Moxie Media / HUG
SRN story sharing guidance is to be launched at this year's conference. This presentation by lead author, Heidi Tweedie, explains the need for such a publication and what it covers.



icon Parallel session audio recording: Heidi Tweedie - Good practice story sharing (21.17 MB)

icon Parallel session presentation: Heidi Tweedie - Good practice story sharing (40.38 kB)