Original title: Body-map storytelling as research: Documenting physical, emotional and social health as a journey

Speaker: Denise Gastaldo, Associate Professor, Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing; Associate Director, Centre for Critical Qualitative Health Research (CQ)

Date: September 26, 2012

Abstract: Dr. Denise Gastaldo presents her work on adapting body mapping techniques used for therapeutic and advocacy purposes and adding new strategies to create a research approach that allows participants to narrate their trajectories and draw themselves among people and in the middle of events, routines, networks that shape their health. This asset-based method assumes participants are knowledgeable and have interest in sharing their stories to increase understanding or promote transformation. The final outcome of the body-map storytelling process is a mapped story composed of 3 elements: a testimonio (a brief story narrated in the first person), a life-size body map, and a key to describe each visual element found on the map. This technique can also help stimulate dialogue and share knowledge with general audiences given that the mapped story brings research participants’ stories to life through combined visual and oral media. As a product, mapped stories offer a creative and potentially visually compelling approach for knowledge translation and exchange. Dr Gastaldo will also present the 50-page manual she has created with colleagues, Lilian Magalhaes, Christine Carrasco and Charity Davis, to explain how they have used body maps in their research.

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