FREE Life Story workshop

FREE Life Story worskhop

23 September 2025, 4.00pm - 5.30pm UK time

The aim of this online workshop is to engage, encourage, and equip individuals to use the Unforgettable Life Story Book in their own context. This workshop lets you connect, share and learn from our skilled facilitator.

As a resource, the Life Story Book is designed in a pick-and-choose format to ensure complete flexibility. The different sections and prompt cards are designed to spark conversations and stories, and there is plenty of room to add your own photos, cuttings, and other life treasures to build a Life Story Book that is completely unique.

The Life Story Book can be used in the community by individuals, couples, and families, as well in residential care settings. While the resource is designed especially with people living with dementia in mind, it is possible to use the resource throughout the life course.

This workshop is aimed at people living with dementia, their carers and everybody working in the filed of dementia care.

What do I need for the workshop:

Once you have attended a workshop, we will send you a free Life Story Book, worth £15.00*. Our Life Story workshops are available to you for free, thanks to the kind contributions of previous attendees who recognise their value. If you find it valuable, please consider donating £5.00. By paying it forward, you're helping others benefit from the same meaningful experience. Your support ensures we can continue offering this workshop to our community.

How to prepare for the workshop:

while there is no specific preparation, participants are encouraged to familiarise themselves with the resource.

Learning Objectives:

• Meet with other people planning to use the Life Story Book
• Consider some benefits of Life Story work and identify possible barriers
• Participate in exercises which identify, capture and share aspects of our life stories
• Discuss and share ideas of how to use the Life Story Book
• Plan the next practical steps to use the Life Story Book

Please note, this workshop is not a step-by-step how-to use the Life Story resource from start to finish, so much as an opportunity for you to reflect on and discuss what aspects of this resource you might like to use in your own context.

This workshop will be run by Charlotte Evans. Inspired by the time she spent with her Gran, Charlotte founded social enterprise Story Chaplain, which encourages and equips people to use everyday creativity when spending time with people living with dementia. Charlotte holds an MA in Bibliotherapy (fiction therapy), and uses 'Comfort Words', poems and creative writing in her workshops. Charlotte often uses connection with nature and the seasons to encourage meaningful moments’.

Once you have registered the Zoom invitation will be sent to you, as well as a reminder on the day of each workshop. The Zoom meeting will open 5 minutes before each session.

*Please note that we are not able to send the resource to delegates based outsdie of the United Kingdom.