Healing Through Remembering

24/06/2009

Launch of Ethical Principles for Storytelling and Narrative Work

Healing Through Remembering launched Ethical Principles - Storytelling and Narrative on June 24.

This document outlines a set of principles for storytelling and narrative work connected to the experience of the conflict in and about Northern Ireland. The principles have been drawn from the work of the Healing Through Remembering Storytelling Sub Group.

The document has two sections. This first section explains the context in which the principles have been developed. The issues around the different definitions and types and methods connected to storytelling and narrative work are discussed. This section situates storytelling and narrative work related to the conflict within HTR’s overall approach to dealing with the past. The second section describes 20 ethical principles that should inform and guide storytelling and narrative work. These are grouped into three clusters drawn from the core values for dealing with past that were developed for HTR’s submission to the Consultative Group on the Past in January 2008. This framework seeks to link the core values for dealing with the past to
the specific ethical principles for storytelling and narrative work.

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  HTR Ethical Principles for Storytelling and Narrative Work

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