Using Storyboarding to Gain Appreciative Reflection in the Classroom

This paper reviews the use and value of a storyboarding approach in a classroom
setting for healthcare professionals. This approach is used with adult students
from foundation to postgraduate level of study. It describes how the
authors used a positive appreciative reflection approach to storyboarding in
order to develop the narratives of the students’ lived experience. The authors
identify how the storyboarding helped to develop one student’s narrative into a
group activity. This approach provided the students with space and time to work
together on creating the storyboard and gain ‘collective wisdom’ from their
peers and facilitators in the process. The paper acknowledges some of the limitations
and benefits of using this approach to storyboarding within the classroom
setting.