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| Those were the days! |
Under the auspices of the Cheltenham Poetry Festival, I'm running three workshops at an AgeUK Day Centre with service users who have communication and / or memory problems. Our first session today centred on childhood holidays. Using photographs from the 1920s to the 1940s as memory prompts, it was aimed to work at several levels - a combination of reminiscence therapy, group interaction and language stimulation. But more than anything it was a fun afternoon! And the resultant poem covered everything from bad tempered boarding house landladies to the vagaries of the tide in the Bristol Channel ..... I don't know who enjoyed the session more, the service users or me.
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