Workshop Overview

Life Story & Legacy Co-Creation Workshop

This two-part workshop empowers carers to plan, document, and co-create meaningful creative projects with the people they care for. On day one, drawing on oral history, family archiving, life-story methods, and narrative techniques, participants learn to facilitate engaging, co-authored projects that capture memories, values, and experiences in a structured and creative way. Participants leave on this day with a clearer idea of their unique project and a process to follow.

We return for a second session a weel or two after, where participants bring in their work, share their experiences, clarify any approaches to challenges they encounters.

This is educational and skills-focused, not therapy or counselling. Participants are guided to:

  • Explore oral history techniques to record stories, memories, and personal histories

  • Apply narrative methods to structure stories and highlight meaning, identity, and connections (without therapeutic framing)

  • Use creative archiving approaches (writing, audio, video, or mixed media) 

  • Plan and develop co-authored projects with their loved ones

  • Learn strategies for engaging older people in collaborative storytelling

  • Support intergenerational knowledge transfer and meaningful connection

Duration:

2 x 3 hours (tea break included)

Price:

Base rate, $500 + $70 per participant (max 12)

Policy & Priority Alignment:

✔ Encourages social inclusion, intergenerational connection, and meaningful engagement
✔ Supports carer confidence and creative empowerment
✔ Promotes purposeful activity and wellbeing for both carer and loved one
✔ Complements aged care and community services while remaining non-clinical and non-therapeutic.

Who it’s for

  • Family carers supporting older people

  • Individuals interested in documenting personal or family stories

  • Community carer groups or organisations

  • Participants wishing to explore creative legacy projects collaboratively

Key Outcomes

Participants will leave with:

✔ Confidence in recording and structuring life stories using narrative-informed techniques
✔ Practical skills in oral history, archiving, and co-creation
✔ A tangible plan for a legacy project co-developed with their loved one
✔ Tools for engaging their loved one in meaningful storytelling
✔ Awareness of how to preserve memories and knowledge for future generations