How the one who is interested becomes interesting!

Embodied memory is a theory about how memories are created and processed, and has been used to develop strategies to help congenitally deaf blind people recall and share their experiences. Gunnar Vege is one of the leading practitioners in this field and will be ecplaining and demonstrating his work with rare film footage. We will explore how the ideas can be applied in communication with people who have profound intellectual disabilities. There will be plenty of time for questions. FREE for parent-carers ; email info@storysharing.org.uk for a code. Handouts and certificates will be sent after the event.

The meeting will be recorded and the link made available for one week to those registered for the event but who cannot make the time.

Gunnar worked for 30 years as a special pedagogue and adviser at the Signo Deafblind Centre, School and Resource Centre in Norway. His research and practice focuses on language development and co-created narratives for deafblind individuals. You can see him in conversation here describing these "tactile reciprocal interactions" https://library.tsbvi.edu/Play/13204

Nicola Grove is a retired speech and language therapist who founded Storysharing® , an approach designed to support co-telling of stories of personal experience with children and adults who have severe and profound disabilties. Find out more here https://storysharing.org.uk. Gunnar and his colleague Anne Nafstad have a chapter in her forthcoming edited book on storytelling.

Gunnar says

"I can never omit the importance of how we must develop the relationship over time, at every encounter, being interested, following the other aligning with their attention. This is in my mind the prerequisite for a meaningful and succesful shared event. The one who is interested... becomes interesting".