Chain-storytelling on healthcare Chain-storytelling on healthcare

This is an exercise to warm up and to get in touch with our experiences with healthcare. We play a round of chain storytelling. It is a way to remind ourselves what obstacles we tend to encounter in healthcare. We can sit, lie or stand in a circle.

The first person picks a random event related to health, like:

Since weeks I feel sad and have low energy… or I would like to change my contraception… or I have the flu…

The next person continues with what comes to their mind:

… I consider I might need therapy…

… but I have no gynecologist in the city I live in…

… but I have no German health insurance…

and the next person continues, giving the story more direction

… but I have no idea what kind of therapies are available to me…

… and I start looking up gynecologists in my area…

… and I am worried I wont get support…

We let the story develop without it needing conclusions. When we run out of ideas for follow-up events and consequences, we start with a new initial incident.

As a way to motivate ourselves to work towards changes in healthcare, the chain-storytelling can also be done with the assumption that all our demands have been put into practice and we promptly get what we need.