Progress Report ahead of Independent Study Period – 2019
Please complete the questions below documenting and providing information ahead of the Independent Study Period. Your answers will provide your tutor with an up-to-date account of your project as well as identifying any issues. Provide as much detail as you can as this will also inform your forthcoming tutorials and give us some background ahead the Independent Study Period.
Summarise in a few sentences what your route of enquiry is. What are you trying to find an answer to? How will action research enable you to achieve the change you are seeking?
I'm trying to find an way to help women cope with hardship during immigration, using sensory and mindfulness tools, story telling, the ability to communicate, connect to someone, overcome loneliness and feeling of cultural disposition and other isolation emotions commonly found in immigrated women. My action research using these stand alone and integrated interventions will enable me to achieve a path or an idea of a change that can be done, to empower women and provide them with the tools that work for them according to their Sensory-Processing Sensitivity.
To eliminate any assumption, please state what theory or secondary research
supports your assertion or area of interest?
The secondary research and theories I'm using are on treatments using aromatherapy, mindfulness and multi sensory in mental health, behavior therapy, anxiety and low mood.
What is the latest version of your question?
how can I use mindfulness and sensory mediation to empower and help women cope with hardship during migration
Briefly describe your intervention(s)
Interventions:
I'm planning to conduct these stand alone interventions for 2-3 women at a time, and after collecting my evidences, understand my conclusions and create some new intervention based on what I find and integration between few senses as a multi sensory intervention.
Smell - Use aromatherapy (rose otto and lavandula angustifolia) and story telling.
Sounds - music: choose a specific song that is connected to a memory or a feeling:
A song that generates feelings of control and uplifting
A song that generates feeling of mesmerizing, nostalgic memories - reflect about the memories and the feelings they generate.
sight - watch personal photos from specific periods in their life that were happy and sad - reflect on the memory and the person they have been.
Haptic - textile workshop TBD
Taste - mindful eating and story telling
Talk - story telling as therapy
Multi-sensory experience - watch my video and talk about the feeling that they have experienced from watching the video, identifying with the feelings.
Textile workshop cross reference with story telling.
VR mindfulness experience - TBD continue research in this direction.
What change do you hope to achieve as a result of your interventions?
I would like these women to be empowered by the experience and be more open to new ideas that can help them cope with their problems.
Create a community of supportive women.
VR for mindfulness, create a multi sensory experience of mindfulness using VR.
What have you learned from the testing of your interventions?
There are a lot of women who experience some level or hardship or difficulties during relocation/immigration especially during the first few years.
There is a need to help women cope with hardship during immigration.
Mindfulness and other kind of therapies are being used or known to most women I interviewed.
All women I met were happy to share and talk, and found the story telling a therapeutic tool.
I need to be more focus on my interviews on my subject. I easily drift away to their own stories.
Some of the women I have interviewed are not interested in changing their life, even that they don't seem very happy, they accept their life.
Provide a list of key people/organisations who have given feedback including
experts, collaborators or gatekeepers to date.
VR meetup to find whats going on in the industry on this matter, and how I can develop a bespoke tool as well.
Migration museum
Consonant NGO
MRN NGO
What is the next stage of your action research and when do you plan to implement
this? Please provide a brief outline of planned activity for June and July
plans for the summer:
Interviews: continue interviews with more women
emails to
Constant - consonant.org.uk
MRN - migrantsrights.org.uk
Interventions: as described earlier.
VR: design mindfulness experience other.world
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