TY - JOUR

T1 - Authoring experience

T2 - the significance and performance of storytelling in Socratic dialogue with rehabilitating cancer patients

AU - Knox, Jeanette Bresson Ladegaard

AU - Svendsen, Mette Nordahl

PY - 2015/8

Y1 - 2015/8

N2 - This article examines the storytelling aspect inphilosophizing with rehabilitating cancer patients in small Socratic dialogue groups (SDG). Recounting an experienceto illustrate a philosophical question chosen by the participantsis the traditional point of departure for the dialogicalexchange. However, narrating is much more than abeginning point or the skeletal framework of events and itdeserves more scholarly attention than hitherto given. Storytelling pervades the whole Socratic process and impactsthe conceptual analysis in a SDG. In this article weshow how the narrative aspect became a rich resource forthe compassionate bond between participants and how theirstories cultivated the abstract reflection in the group. Inaddition, the aim of the article is to reveal the differentlayers in the performance of storytelling, or of authoringexperience. By picking, poking and dissecting an experiencethrough a collaborative effort, most participants hadtheir initial experience existentially refined and the chosenconcept of which the experience served as an illustrationtransformed into a moral compass to be used in self-orientationpost cancer.

AB - This article examines the storytelling aspect inphilosophizing with rehabilitating cancer patients in small Socratic dialogue groups (SDG). Recounting an experienceto illustrate a philosophical question chosen by the participantsis the traditional point of departure for the dialogicalexchange. However, narrating is much more than abeginning point or the skeletal framework of events and itdeserves more scholarly attention than hitherto given. Storytelling pervades the whole Socratic process and impactsthe conceptual analysis in a SDG. In this article weshow how the narrative aspect became a rich resource forthe compassionate bond between participants and how theirstories cultivated the abstract reflection in the group. Inaddition, the aim of the article is to reveal the differentlayers in the performance of storytelling, or of authoringexperience. By picking, poking and dissecting an experiencethrough a collaborative effort, most participants hadtheir initial experience existentially refined and the chosenconcept of which the experience served as an illustrationtransformed into a moral compass to be used in self-orientationpost cancer.

KW - Authoring experience

KW - Experience as drama

KW - Narrative re-envisioning

KW - Performance of storytelling

KW - Rehabilitating cancer patients

KW - Socratic dialogue groups

KW - Threefold authoring

U2 - 10.1007/s11019-015-9641-x

DO - 10.1007/s11019-015-9641-x

M3 - Journal article

C2 - 25894237

VL - 18

SP - 409

EP - 420

JO - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy

JF - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy

SN - 1386-7423

IS - 3

ER -