Abstract
“An overflowing rubbish bin at the door of the lecture theatre groaned under the weight of empty energy drink cans, snack and chocolate wrappers. A daily collection of absent-minded discards left by the earnest medical students who filed in to absorb the teachings of the day. The irony did not escape me, I was just too busy memorising the voluminous facts required of becoming a medical doctor to worry about nutrition. Sugar, salt, fat and caffeine meant survival, so we studied, exercised to stay sane, ate cheap, filling food, and tried to keep up. After graduation, exercise evaporated but the sugar, salt, fat and caffeine became the relied upon staples of our burgeoning medical careers.” Western science-informed education is promoted as the best means of guiding healthy food choices with considerable public health dollars expended to this end. However, humans make decisions in socio-cultural contexts and science-derived education does not always resonate with people’s needs and lived experiences. This workshop introduces storytelling as a creative means of engaging with the complexities of human food-health interrelationships. Learning to work with reflective storytelling techniques enables our embodied narratives about food-health to interact with the ones proffered by food science and public health. Through a hands-on storytelling process, participants will experiment with what it is stories do, exploring concepts like choice, healthy and good. And how to harness the dimensional insights provided through reflective storytelling to progress human food-health interrelationships that are of sustainable benefit to both planet and people.
Presenters
Ursula KingStudent, Doctor of Philosophy, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Food, Culture, Storytelling, Public Health Practice
