Listen, Engage, and Reflect: How to Authentically and Respectfully Engage Individuals With Lived Expertise in Storytelling Tip Sheet
Explore additional resources to learn actionable ways to engage in authentic, nonexploitative storytelling practices with people with lived experience and expertise.
Description
This tip sheet reflects tips and strategies shared in the Power in Partnerships: Child Welfare Virtual Expo 2022 session “Listen, Engage, and Reflect: How to Authentically and Respectfully Engage Individuals With Lived Expertise in Storytelling.” It was developed by the following people with lived expertise: Huyanna Clearwater, Jeremiah Donier, Alex Gaither, Michaela Guthrie, Marcella Middleton, Keri Richmond, and Dakota Roundtree-Swain.
Use this tip sheet with the corresponding Learning Experience video, which provides actionable ways to engage in authentic, nonexploitative storytelling with people with lived expertise, and the CWVE 2022 Learning Experience Discussion Guide, which provides a description of the topic, reflection questions for individual learning, and conversation starters and team activities for child welfare staff and collaborative partners to explore together.
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Suggested Citation
Capacity Building Center for States. (2022). Listen, engage, and reflect: How to authentically and respectfully engage individuals with lived expertise in storytelling tip sheet. Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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