13 A/r/tography, rhizomatic storytelling, and ripple effects mapping: a combined arts-based and community mapping methodology to evaluate the impact of COVID-19 expressive arts support groups for frontliners in the Philippines
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Maria Regina A. Alfonso
Abstract
The oppressive arrival of COVID-19 has had a significant socio-economic impact particularly on low- to middle-income families in the Philippines, leading to a plethora of mental health issues that exacerbate family living conditions. Psychosocial support has been a great need. Magis Creative Spaces, in partnership with ABJ Foundation, implemented an initiative to provide Duyan (‘cradle’ in English) groups: free online expressive arts-based psychosocial support groups for various groups of frontline workers. Focusing on the education, health care, and social welfare sectors, a total of 180 participants took part. In parallel, Magis also initiated a research project to document this initiative. A pool of ten facilitators was arranged in pairs to create a team for each Duyan support group. A general sample of each session’s process is as follows: (1) a moment of stillness and silence to offer prayers of healing and gratitude; (2) the introduction of facilitators and participants; (3) a grounding exercise; (4) an art activity (visual art, movement, music or a combination); (5) sharing and discussion; (6) discussion and questions; (7) group photo; (8) closing. Co-authors Alfonso and Atayde, supervising clinicians for the project, organised all stakeholders of the initiative and reviewed key components of the programme. After each of the Duyan support groups were completed, all facilitators were involved in a post-Duyan session group process to harvest stories through drawing and storytelling.
Abstract
The oppressive arrival of COVID-19 has had a significant socio-economic impact particularly on low- to middle-income families in the Philippines, leading to a plethora of mental health issues that exacerbate family living conditions. Psychosocial support has been a great need. Magis Creative Spaces, in partnership with ABJ Foundation, implemented an initiative to provide Duyan (‘cradle’ in English) groups: free online expressive arts-based psychosocial support groups for various groups of frontline workers. Focusing on the education, health care, and social welfare sectors, a total of 180 participants took part. In parallel, Magis also initiated a research project to document this initiative. A pool of ten facilitators was arranged in pairs to create a team for each Duyan support group. A general sample of each session’s process is as follows: (1) a moment of stillness and silence to offer prayers of healing and gratitude; (2) the introduction of facilitators and participants; (3) a grounding exercise; (4) an art activity (visual art, movement, music or a combination); (5) sharing and discussion; (6) discussion and questions; (7) group photo; (8) closing. Co-authors Alfonso and Atayde, supervising clinicians for the project, organised all stakeholders of the initiative and reviewed key components of the programme. After each of the Duyan support groups were completed, all facilitators were involved in a post-Duyan session group process to harvest stories through drawing and storytelling.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents ix
- List of figures and tables xi
- Notes on contributors xiii
- Introduction 1
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Arts-based research as a method to understand and give voice to marginalised groups
- Using arts-based methods to explore existential issues around ageing 13
- Arts- and music-based activities and nondeliberative participatory research methods: building connection and community 24
- Arts-based methods to co-create knowledge and reconstruct power relations with marginalised women in and through research 33
- Autoethnographic playwriting and performance for self-healing and advocacy 45
- Using photography to research the ‘other’: the validity of photography for social work research – a visual case study from China 55
- Mixed arts-based methods as a platform for expressing lived experience 68
- Arts-based methods to support and reveal new mothers’ and families’ experiences: a positive parenting and feminist approach 77
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Using arts-based research to listen to, and give voice to, children in social work
- “I don’t like the cameras in the house. They’re looking at us all the time”: the contribution of Photovoice to children in a post-hospitalisation programme 89
- Arts-based research work with migrant children 102
- Using creative art research approaches to assess arts-based interventions with children in post-disaster contexts 117
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Arts-based research as a way for researchers and community members to understand communities
- Murals and photography in community engagement and assessment 129
- Forum theatre as participatory action research with community workers 139
- A/r/tography, rhizomatic storytelling, and ripple effects mapping: a combined arts-based and community mapping methodology to evaluate the impact of COVID-19 expressive arts support groups for frontliners in the Philippines 148
- Art and artefact: displaying social work through objects 162
- Building research capacity: scaffolding the process through arts-based pedagogy 170
- Art as a way of improving participatory action research: an experience with youngsters with an intellectual disability and their families 181
- Epilogue 198
- Index 200
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents ix
- List of figures and tables xi
- Notes on contributors xiii
- Introduction 1
-
Arts-based research as a method to understand and give voice to marginalised groups
- Using arts-based methods to explore existential issues around ageing 13
- Arts- and music-based activities and nondeliberative participatory research methods: building connection and community 24
- Arts-based methods to co-create knowledge and reconstruct power relations with marginalised women in and through research 33
- Autoethnographic playwriting and performance for self-healing and advocacy 45
- Using photography to research the ‘other’: the validity of photography for social work research – a visual case study from China 55
- Mixed arts-based methods as a platform for expressing lived experience 68
- Arts-based methods to support and reveal new mothers’ and families’ experiences: a positive parenting and feminist approach 77
-
Using arts-based research to listen to, and give voice to, children in social work
- “I don’t like the cameras in the house. They’re looking at us all the time”: the contribution of Photovoice to children in a post-hospitalisation programme 89
- Arts-based research work with migrant children 102
- Using creative art research approaches to assess arts-based interventions with children in post-disaster contexts 117
-
Arts-based research as a way for researchers and community members to understand communities
- Murals and photography in community engagement and assessment 129
- Forum theatre as participatory action research with community workers 139
- A/r/tography, rhizomatic storytelling, and ripple effects mapping: a combined arts-based and community mapping methodology to evaluate the impact of COVID-19 expressive arts support groups for frontliners in the Philippines 148
- Art and artefact: displaying social work through objects 162
- Building research capacity: scaffolding the process through arts-based pedagogy 170
- Art as a way of improving participatory action research: an experience with youngsters with an intellectual disability and their families 181
- Epilogue 198
- Index 200
