• A powerful, a personal voice.
• Provides better understanding of a research problem.
• Robustly integrates past experiences into learning.
• Generates openness for participants.
• Potential to promote change.
• Storytelling can be engaging for participants.
• Information is easily communicated and the narratives naturalize the research process.
• Provides scholars with special access into human experience.
• Allows for rich descriptions of experiences and more in depth understanding for the researcher.
• Real situations and participants.
• Issues in health care and individual health can be articulated through the narrative process.
• Relationships form between the participant and researcher.
• Stories or narratives have the potential to heal, soothe and comfort the spirit, and body, they can provide hope, and give people courage for the future.