The Corking Thanksgiving Listen
This Thanksgiving StoryCorps, the grouping who has been recording the stories of Americans for the Library of Congress, is quest household unit of measurement members to interview in addition to tape stories from the lives of elders attention Thanksgiving dinner.
The projection is called - “The Great Thanksgiving Listen.”
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By Tom in addition to Karen Brenner
We are excited to role the novel StoryCorps app to choose the province together inward a projection of listening, connectedness in addition to generosity. Together nosotros volition collect the wisdom of a generation in addition to archive it for the future, spell at the same fourth dimension reminding our grandparents how much their lives in addition to stories matter.
—Dave Isay, StoryCorps Founder in addition to President.We are thus happy to hear that StoryCorps is recognizing the gifts that tin endure gleaned from the life stories of our elders.
Here is a link to the StoryCorps app if y'all in addition to your household unit of measurement would similar to participate.
We direct maintain ever been believers inward the ability of the story; nosotros know that everyone has bully stories to share, if nosotros exclusively direct maintain the fourth dimension to listen.
When nosotros began working straight amongst people living amongst dementia, nosotros would routinely set simply about meaningful object inward their hands. This could endure something from nature or something that was particular to the private nosotros were trying to reach. So often, people living amongst dementia would concur this object in addition to thus commence to tell us stories from their lives.
These stories were simply moments, snapshots from their lives. But these memories were filled amongst humour or wisdom or touching moments from a person’s life.
H5N1 farmer asset a photograph of an quondam tractor remembered the chuckling audio made yesteryear his grandfather’s steam engine tractor. H5N1 preacher asset a hymnal told us of the fourth dimension he defended an unwed woman bring upward when his deacons wanted to throw her out of the church. H5N1 mother, asset a photograph of her boy when he was a lilliputian boy, sharing amongst us the storey of her thus 4 yr quondam boy driving off inward his grandpa’s model T.
We assemble these stories inward our go using the Montessori Method for positive dementia care.
We impress upward these vignettes inward large font, set them inward binders in addition to brand several copies of each. We thus role these printed stories inward our Elder Reading Groups.
Each somebody reads i page from the storey in addition to when this storey is finished thus nosotros speak over what nosotros direct maintain simply read. For people living amongst dementia, the stories from their peers are thus touching in addition to tin endure real powerful.
To assist the conversation nigh these stories, nosotros enquire open-ended questions relevant to each storey such as: What was the best thing nigh growing upward on a farm? What produce y'all produce to cheer yourself upward when y'all experience sad? Can y'all tell us something nigh your favorite teacher? Open ended questions cannot endure answered yesteryear a yep or no in addition to tend to spark conversation in addition to reminiscence.
One of the most poignant in addition to powerful stories nosotros gathered for our Elder Reading Group was told to us yesteryear a 95 yr quondam adult woman who lived inward a sod work solid on a prairie when she was a lilliputian girl. Her household unit of measurement later on moved to Chicago.
She told us this storey nigh an deed of beloved in addition to courage during the Great Depression of the 1930’s. We called her storey “The Best Gift.” This lilliputian memoir has traveled all over the United States of America in addition to Great Britain. It is a unproblematic tale that teaches us the ability of gratitude. It is the perfect storey to hear inward this flavor of giving thanks.
Happy Thanksgiving in addition to Happy Listening!
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Tom Brenner is a gerontologist who specializes inward creating dementia attention programs that are forcefulness based in addition to positive leaning. His wife, Karen, is a Montessori educator who co-founded a Montessori schoolhouse for children who are deaf. The Brenner’s direct maintain worked together for the yesteryear 20 years researching in addition to implementing the application of the Montessori Method for positive dementia care.
After years of working straight amongst people living amongst dementia in addition to their caregivers, the Brenners published a mass nigh their work, You Say Goodbye in addition to We Say Hello: The Montessori Method for Positive Dementia Care. Tom in addition to Karen move throughout the United States of America presenting workshops, preparation programs in addition to speaking engagements nigh their uplifting in addition to positive approach to dementia care.
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