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December 10, 2025Action ResearchOpen Access

Moving at the Speed of Trust: A Strengths-Based Analysis of a Participatory Storytelling Project with and for Criminalized Peoples

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KTKelsey TimlerEBE. BlythKMKatherine McLeod

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Overview

Participatory action research highlights storytelling's impact on healing and dignity for incarcerated individuals, suggesting pathways for community support.

Key Points

  • Explore the impact of a participatory storytelling approach on healing for criminalized individuals in BC.
  • Conducted a participatory action research (PAR) workshop focused on storytelling and strengths-based writing.
  • Engaged Facilitators, activist scholars, and Storytellers to foster healing and support.
  • Considered the effects of personal trauma and the implications of COVID-19.
  • Facilitated storytelling processes enabled individual and collective healing.
  • Insights revealed the importance of relational processes in storytelling.
  • Addressed potential risks and harms associated with sharing personal trauma.

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Timler et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69401d472d562116f28f86f2https://doi.org/10.1177/14767503251400127
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