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Creative Life Story Work

Trauma-informed life story work ideas, tools and inspiration.

Many young people leave care with unanswered questions about their lives.

Creative Life Story Work uses creative approaches – developed by artists who are experts in working with care-experienced children and young people – to help children find answers to these questions, make sense of their past, and move on to a better future.

What are the benefits?

  • Creative Life Story Work helps children and young people gain a better understanding of their own experiences and form stronger relationships with the adults in their lives.
  • Most importantly, Creative Life Story Work aims to improve the lives of care-experienced children and young people.

The Creative Life Story Work website provides practitioners, carers and students with a bank of life story work resources, information and inspiration.

Find out more

Visit the Creative Life Story Work website>>

Or get in touch to find out more about using Creative Life Story Work in your organisation – email us on creativelifestorywork@wearebluecabin.com.

Partners

Funders

“The sharing stone helps me to talk about my feelings, so when I am playing with it, my [carer] knows that I want to talk about something.”

Care-experienced child

“I believe that this innovative partnership will be the blueprint for consistent life story work across the country.”

Professor Richard Rose, Therapeutic Life Story Work International.

“[The programme has] made me realise my worth.”

Young person

“The new model has already shown how a more creative approach can encourage young people to explore their emotions, which in turn has a positive impact on their relationships with the adults in their lives.”

Councillor Gary Haley, Gateshead Council

“He had this whole new vocabulary around how he was feeling and his foster carer said he’d started to open up in a way he had never done before.”

Local authority staff member

“I could speak more honestly and openly about stuff because now I know what to say […] like before all I could say was like, well I’m in care, I didn’t really know what to say about my family, but now I feel like I can.”

Young person

Access our Creative Life Story Work website:

You can access lots more information and resources relating to Creative Life Story work at www.creativelifestorywork.com

Listen to our podcast:
Listen to the Creative Life Story Work podcast here.

Join our mailing list:
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Get in touch:
Email us on hello@wearebluecabin.com to find out about using Creative Life Story Work in your local authority.