Visual Narrative Pastoral Care Project: Telling Our Story in Art

“Imagination is key in reframing a negative personal narrative and visualizing it another way. This is the prophetic work of pastoral care providers. The visual narrative pastoral care framework creates generative narratives that address one’s life story connecting art, spirituality and healing. ”

Team Members/Contributors

Darci Jaret Art in the Image Contact Me

About this pastoral study project

We are always telling our story. For many in marginalized communities these stories are filled with trauma and loss. We are in need of healing practices that meets us where we are. Using art-making to reframe our narrative can create a bridge between difficult history and a redemptive self-assured version of self. My own story is one that needed reframing from a traumatizing personal history into a renewed story of healing. Imagination is key in taking a negative narrative and visualizing it another way. This pastoral care framework creates inspiring narratives that address one’s life story connecting art, spirituality and healing. Expressing one’s narrative through art is productive because it couples together the meaning- making associated recounting life events, and the healing power of art making.Development of the visual narrative pastoral care framework is important to the church in North America to be able to communicate and care for the younger generations. Through art making and creativity we reach out to the creative God and we tell part of our own story through the art. In creating- we live out our creation in the image of the God, or imago dei. This pastoral study project will begin to gather experiential response to this new care model.