Wellness Storytelling Videography

Traditionally, health education in the Latin America and the Caribbean has been based on storytelling, practical experience and intensive apprenticeships. Within each community there would be different levels of health expertise, from mothers making tea for tummy aches to a regional elder who specializes in advanced levels of disease. Hidden Garden, together with the Rich Coast Project, is creating videos of local people telling their stories of ancestral wellness. With the permission of the their subjects, these videos are added to the Rich Coast Archive online. This project encourages the survival of the traditional health education strategies of storytelling and communal sharing of knowledge for the good of all.