I have always been fascinated by stories: by how we form them, how we share them, who’s telling them. When I discovered InsightShare, I was relieved beyond measure to discover a group of people who’d been working for many years with story telling in a way that was honest, transparent, empowering and inclusive: instead of…
On June 27th 2019, we reconnected with a past InsightShare Associate from Peru, Maja Tillmann, at a series of seminars called Participatory Consciousness: from HOW to WHY, given by herself, Dr Timmi Tillmann and Dr Maruja Salas at Coventry University’s Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience. In her talk, Maja reminded us that Participatory Video…
At an workshop event at the Ecocentrix exhibition in London, Irma Poma Canchumani spoke some fascinating words about how she feels a direct link between the participatory video work she is involved in and her gourd carving, each literally informs the other… “This is my script. On these gourds I engrave my script – these gourdstell…
“Mistakes are great!” This is not an easy idea for a perfectionist to embrace. InsightShare’s Participatory Video (PV) training course threw me into the world of embracing mistakes, because that is how we learn best. After a week of making mistakes with a dynamic and creative group of participants with a wide range of expertise,…
We are a Living Culture The Maasai community have adopted a revitalised, multifaceted approach to preserve their culture in the face of several waves of change. At an event in London on Wednesday night, five representatives from the Maasai told an audience at The Building Centre that they aim to create an educational centre, a women’s empowerment initiative which concentrates…
What helps communities to be strong in the face of natural disasters? InsightShare has been supporting British Red Cross and Nepal Red Cross Society to use Participatory Video and Most Significant Change (PV MSC) as a method to help unpack how the earthquake recovery happened in Nepal and understand how to strengthen urban resilience. The…
October 15th, 2017 – exactly one year ago, the green heart of central Portugal was ravaged by the second most serious wave of wildfires to take the lives and livelihoods of many. I have stayed in this region every summer for the last decade and although wildfires are nothing new here, the scale of the…
Last Month, I went to Oxford for InsightShare Participatory Video (PV) Training of Facilitators. Honestly, I didn’t know what to expect and had no clue how you can actually facilitate a Participatory Video method. In only 6 days, I learnt to facilitate group exercises for participants to use the camera, shoot, edit, produce AND screen! And…
