New video resources provide an overview of Blue Cabin's creative life story approach to working with children, young people and their carers.
Since 2016, Blue Cabin has been nurturing meaningful relationships between care-experienced people and the organisations in their lives. These videos, presented by Jenny Young, Director of Blue Cabin and Nic Golightly, Associate Artist at Blue Cabin, explore Blue Cabin's creative life story work model.
The Blue Cabin approach is based on Richard Rose’s model of Therapeutic Life Story Work. It provides space for children and young people to make sense of their lives, so that they have the chance to move forward with confidence in who they are and where they are going.
The videos explore the creative life story work model, examples of Blue Cabin’s creative experience sessions, and an evaluation of how the Blue Cabin approach has been used across local authorities.
Research in Practice resources to support life story work
Life story work aims to support care-experienced children and young people to understand their own history and life story. These Research in Practice resources are designed for practitioners to support care-experienced children and young people to create a coherent narrative that makes sense of the past, present and future.
- All About Me: A creative experience session
- Evaluation of the Blue Cabin approach and open-access resources
- Life story work – what it is and why it matters: Webinar
- Supporting life story work: the role of managers, Independent Reviewing Officers (IROs) and strategic leads: Webinar
- The creative life story work model
Creative life story work: The Blue Cabin approach
These video clips provide an overview of Blue Cabin's creative life story approach to working with children, young people and their carers. The approach is based on Rose’s model of 'Therapeutic Life Story Work' and provides space for children and young people to make sense of their lives.
Nurturing creativity: Blue Cabin’s Creative Life Story Work programme
In this blog, Jenny Young outlines Blue Cabin's Creative Life Story Work programme which aims to help care-experienced children and young people explore, discuss and manage their feelings, and to understand their own history and life story.
Life Story Work: Practice Tool (2022)
This practice tool aims to build confidence in explaining difficult stories for care experienced children and young people.