Memory, Identity and

The Stories of Our

Lives

Expanding

our

Imagination

Spirituality

as a way

of looking

Spirituality as

a way of

looking and

re-imagining

Key Spiritual

Questions

Who am I?

Where do I come from?

Where am I going to?

Why?

Who Am I?

The more I think

about it the more

my head hurts!

The Threefold

Self

We are our stories and the stories that

are told about us

Giving people back their

stories

Who will tell your story well when you

have forgotten how to tell it

Enabling Spiritual

Journeys for

People with

Dementia

Key ideas

Journeying Together:

A Person Centred approach

The mood of the project is specifically on the future

and the present rather than the past. Story telling is

central to the project but it always reflects a hopeful

future. What can we do now to lift people’s spirits?

The emphasis is on movement together so that both

cared for and carers benefit from the journey.

A community-centred

spiritual care resource

There are six

steps

Step 1 Building the Picture

Step 2 Finding an attentive community

Step 3 Gathering Stories

Step 4 Reflecting on the stories

Step 5

Step 6

Making a spiritual plan

Reflecting, Reviewing, Re-acting

Building a Picture:

Creating communities of

attentiveness

Gathering

Stories

Nightmares

Comments

About the

person’s

spirituality

Spiritual stories about..

Spiritual stories

Gifts from ….

Dreams

Action for spiritual

care and

Agreements

Changes/

Ideas

Way forward

Spiritual

symbols

Making a spiritual plan

A Spiritual life Map

Creating an Individual Spiritual Action

Plan

• How might this person understand spirituality?

• How might this community understand spirituality in the light of this person’s experience?

• How might this community respond to the expressed spiritual needs?

Creating an Individual Spiritual Action

Plan

• Who might this person need to meet his or her spiritual goals?

• What or who might the community need to assist in this process?

• How can we, together, work towards meeting these needs?

• John tells us through his attentive community and their stories of him, that he has always enjoyed visiting big buildings. He likes the feeling of the stone under his feet and he finds the big pillars comforting. He shows this now through leaning against the pillars and becoming calm, ceasing to rock and shout. He finds himself at peace in these surroundings.

• Part of the spiritual plan is to re create the situations in which John finds peace and seems calm and comfortable. Taking him to these buildings will be part of the plan, but are there other ways that this connection with the cold stone can be created. It seems that leaning against the metal cords of a swing have the same effect. This becomes part of the plan.

Discovering Spirituality

Discovering Spirituality

The gardening boxer

Finding spiritual friends

Spiritual practices

Places

of Belonging