Memory Work

"Memory work” is an innovative and effective approach of psychosocial support and accompaniment of children, women and men affected by or infected with HIV/AIDS. The term memory work refers to a number of group-oriented therapeutic methods of enabling people to examine their life stories and to cope with disease, death and grief. The memories may be collected in - and expressed by - Memory Boxes, Memory Books or life-size Body Maps. Memory work was first used in an HIV/AIDS setting in the United Kingdom. From there the approach found its way to Africa, and enriched with the methods developed in Southern Africa, memory work has found its way back to Europe - a good example of a creative North-South-exchange

�Memory work” is an innovative and effective approach of psychosocial support and accompaniment of children, women and men affected by or infected with HIV/AIDS. The term memory work refers to a number of group-oriented therapeutic methods of enabling people to examine their life stories and to cope with disease, death and grief. The memories may be collected in - and expressed by - Memory Boxes, Memory Books or life-size Body Maps. Memory work was first used in an HIV/AIDS setting in the United Kingdom. From there the approach found its way to Africa, and enriched with the methods developed in Southern Africa, memory work has found its way back to Europe - a good example of a creative North-South-exchange.