Cultivating Compassion

This book explores how digital storytelling can catalyze change in healthcare. Edited by the co-founders of the award-winning Patient Voices Programme, the authors discuss various applications for this technique; from using digital storytelling as a reflective process, to the use of digital stories in augmenting quantitative data. Through six main sections this second edition covers areas including healthcare education, patient engagement, quality improvement and the use of digital storytelling research. The chapters illuminate how digital storytelling can lead to greater humanity, understanding and, ultimately, compassion. This collection will appeal to those involved in delivering, managing or receiving healthcare and healthcare education and research, as well as people interested in digital storytelling and participatory media.

Pip Hardy is a co-founder of the Patient Voices Programme. She has degrees in English Literature and Lifelong Learning and qualifications in counseling and adult education. Her PhD examined the potential of digital storytelling to transform healthcare. Tony Sumner is a co-founder of the Patient Voices Programme. He has degrees in physics, astronomy and astrophysics and a background in the software industry. His research interests relate to the possibilities afforded by technology to promote deep reflection

-Foreword to the second edition; Joe Lambert.- Foreword to the first edition; Angela Coulter.- Patient Voices: in celebration; Monica Clarke.- Preface; Pip Hardy and Tony Sumner.- Acknowledgements.- Section 1: A Tale of Two Decades.- Chapter 1: Introduction: the Journey Begins; Pip Hardy and Tony Sumner.- Chapter 2: Pilgrims' Progress; Pip Hardy.- Chapter 3: To the Far Horizon; Pip Hardy and Tony Sumner.- Chapter 4: The Patient Voices Approach; Pip Hardy and Tony Sumner.- Section 2: Involvement, Impact and Improvement.- Chapter 5: Towards Compassionate Governance: the Impact of Patient Voices on NHS Leadership; Paul Stanton.- Chapter 6: Arthur and Co: Digital Stories about Living with Arthritis; Fiona O'Neill.- Chapter 7: Safety Stories: Creating a Culture of Safety with Digital Stories; Cathy Jaynes.- Chapter 8: Working with Dignity and Respect: Improving Mental Health Services with Digital Storytelling; Carol Haigh, Patrick Cahoon and Tony Sumner.- Chapter 9: Breathe Easy: Digital Stories about COPD; Matthew Hodson.- Section 3: Transformational Learning.- Chapter 10: Reflection - They Just Don't Get It! Digital Stories from Junior Doctors; Liz Anderson and Dan Kinnair.- Chapter 11: Reflection - Now We Get It!; Steve Corry-Bass, Matthew Critchfield and Weehaan Pang.- Chapter 12: The Shock of Reality: Digital Storytelling with Newly Qualified Nurses; Gemma Stacey.- Section 4: How Was That For You? The Healing Power of Digital Storytelling.- Chapter 13: Healing Journeys: Digital Storytelling with Service User Educators; Julie Walters.- Chapter 14: The Sheffield Carers' Voices Project: Was it Therapeutic?; Mark Shea.- Chapter 15: Building Healthy Teams: Digital Storytelling in NHS Organisations; Amy Stabler.- Section 5: Contributing to Evidence (the Evidence of Experience).- Chapter 16: Measuring what Counts: the Stories Behind the Statistics; Karen Taylor.- Chapter 17: What Really Matters to Patients?; Digital Storytelling as Qualitative Research; Carol Haigh and Eula Miller.- Chapter 18: Increasing Empathy: Digital Storytelling in Professional Development; Nick Harland.- Section 6: Doing It Together: A Model for Co-production.- Chapter 19: Finding our Voices in the Dangling Conversations: Co-producing Digital Stories about Dementia; Rosie Stenhouse and Jo Tait.- Chapter 20: Service Users and Staff Learning Together with Digital Stories; Elspeth McLean.- Chapter 21: Cultivating Compassion in End of Life Care: Developing an Interprofessional Learning Resource Based on Digital Stories; Pip Hardy and Elizabeth Howkins.- Chapter 22: The DNA of Care: Digital Storytelling with NHS Staff; Karen Deeny, Pip Hardy and Tony Sumner.- Chapter 23: All the Stories Are One: Care, Compassion and Transformation; Pip Hardy and Tony Sumner.- Afterword; Maxine Craig.