Cambridge · estabLiShed . 2025 · Documentation OF Individual's Thoughts on to Paper

Documentation has broaden over the years.It includes broader range of voices and platforms.

For the Record is putting conversations on your past into writing , returning to them and reflecting on at them.The process allow the person to return to the text ,explore with images and create an event into an object they can hold.

Documentation of who you are.

Patient is key in the documentation process taking time, sitting with the individual or group listening, drawing ,talking , and turn what they say into something they can hold.

An equal conversation between two people.

We use technology to put the individual words on the page — voice transcription, drawing tablets, whatever fits the person — so the work belongs to them, in their own language.

The Garvald Globe was the first version of this: eight pages, made with residents and staff, twenty years ago.

Ditchburn Place is the current one.

This isn't a one-afternoon workshop handing out with crayons to colour by numbers in. We work with real memories, over time, with people whose stories matter to them. The outcome is not measure in formatted piece of paper. It may be a conversation that is follow up with in a group .Patient, slow, on a level

No false deadlines.