Here are 10 key trauma-informed practices to create ethical, supportive spaces for storytelling and personal narrative. While our approach is focused on oral history, these principles apply to many types of community-based, interview-based, or relational work.
What is the value of oral history? This resource page explores the transformative power of oral history-based storytelling and its many applications. Goals and outcomes can include education, advocacy, healing and connection, community building, ethical storytelling, and narrative change.
Voice of Witness’s education program develops curriculum that directly supports students in migrant, multilingual, and English Language Learner communities. This guide contains activities, handouts, and reading strategies to make oral history accessible to students at all language levels.
This comprehensive guide allows teachers and students to explore contemporary issues through the transformative power of oral history, and to develop the communication skills necessary for creating vital oral history projects in their own communities.
Creating an oral history cookbook provides students with the opportunity to connect with their own cultural knowledge while building speaking, listening, reading and writing skills. This guide helps educators facilitate an oral history cookbook project.