Relational, Appreciative, and Process-Oriented Digital Storytelling

A digital storytelling workshop implemented as a relational, appreciative, and process-oriented practice empowers participants to realize alternative, more polyphonic, ways of acting, thinking, and relating with each other. Participants learn how to create their digital stories, share them and get peer feedback, and then rewrite more enriching versions. The digital stories produced become mediating tools for personal and collective empowerment in the context of an appreciative and inclusive culture. In this work we present our experience as designers and facilitators of such workshops.

Alexios is a psychologist (PhD), group facilitator and adult educator. He works as adjunct/assistant faculty in academia teaching courses on qualitative research methods, systems thinking, community practice, and learning sciences. Research interests include, among others: personal development and resilience in complex techno-social systems; learning communities, reflective practice and peer learning networks; group work and community-based action research. abrailas@yahoo.com

Chara Sotiropoulou is an educator, group facilitator, and systems thinking practitioner. She works in private practice and collaborates with the Athenian Institute of Anthropos, Athens, Greece. Her research interests focus on educational systems and learners and educators’ lived experiences, dialogical (intra- and inter-personal) and transforming processes, narrative and appreciative practices in human systems. xsotiropoyloy@gmail.com