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Creating recovery through body and voice: Rebuilding your Life programme

Rebuilding your Life (RyL) is a recovery-focused programme developed by people recovered and recovering from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ ME) and healthcare professionals (McDermott, 2014). Its ethos of co-enquiry establishes all participants (recoverers and facilitators) as equal collaborators (Raphael et al , 2015). The main facilitator, Sarah Frossell, uses Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and coaches each person within the group encouraging them to attend to the voice of their body in terms of the illness and of their return to wellbeing. Jenni Mair (recovered after eighteen years of CFS/ME) and Hilly Raphael (a RyL cofacilitator) present this poster as a record of the restorying they experienced through RyL. It explores the initiation of recovery by attending to voice and body in communication. Jenni discovered a voice which empowered her to acknowledge aspects of life previously un-voiced, and to create an image of a positive future which she’s already entering. They’ve identified concepts of each finding a voice, further enabled through their collaboration (Raphael, Mair, Frossell, 2015). They acknowledge the role of voice as a conduit of emotional and bodily stories, which transition from the internal to the external body, and from one to another; ultimately when attended to enabling healing and transformation. Keywords: Voice, body, healing, recovery References: McDermott, C. (2014). Patient and Public Involvement: Case studies in primary care research . National Institute for Health Research, p22-24. Available at: http://www.spcr.nihr.ac.uk/PPI/rp/case-studies-final-november-website.pdf [Accessed 5th June 2016]. Raphael, H; et al. (2015) Co-creating recovery in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) - Rebuilding your Life group programme. http://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk/resources/2014/01/RYL-poster-Feb-15.pdf [Accessed 5th June 2016]. Raphael, H., Mair, J., and Frossell, S. (2015). Finding new voices for recovery: A narrative from co-learners in an innovative group programme. European Journal of Integrative Medicine 7, sup.1: 18-19.