I'm participating in the opening two day Retreat of our UCA Board of Mission Leadership Intensive this week [which will be hugely beneficial and has already left me brain drained today!!] and at dinner tonight we heard from a local family sharing in a community meal, open house, and various other mission activities which line up with their purpose and passions!!A great idea I was introduced to is called 'Photovoice' which is defined by wikipedia as follows:
"Photovoice is a methodology mostly used in the field of education which combines photography with grassroots social action. Subjects are asked to represent their community or point of view by taking photographs."
wikipedia"Photovoice is a methodology mostly used in the field of education which combines photography with grassroots social action. Subjects are asked to represent their community or point of view by taking photographs."
It basically involves giving people a camera and working on a storyboard to help them provide a photo essay representing some part of their life journey! To me it has huge potential amongst communities of young people, in camping programs etc
It's especially used in many places as a tool to tell an 'alternative story' or bring a different perspective and to give communities of people voice!!
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Hey Rob!
Photovoice sounds like a great idea. I'd love to be involved in facilitating something like that... how therapeutic that'd be for the people doing it and how humbling for the people who get to see it. It's got so much potential and would be accessible to practically anyone.
Personal stories told through images... think of how much you could say, how much could be heard!
Mini Meegs :)
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