Inspiration Porn - An Ethical Storytelling Checklist

Posted on: Sun, 02/05/2023 - 15:18 By: journeyadmin

In October of 2022, I led an introductory workshop for the Health eMatters conference. It wasn't recorded but several people have asked for the slide set. I converted it to pdf and have posted it here for those folks to see.

PDF of Inspiration Porn presentation slides

The presentation defined inspiration porn, then examined the use of checklists. Ultimately I concluded that simple is best and suggested Rumi's three gates - true, necessary, kind. Then we looked at some considerations around truth, privacy, and trauma. The final part of the workshop was to take three experiences that I had and looked at how to tell stories ethically around those experiences: Male breast cancer; patient engagement gone wrong; and lung cancer stigma.

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