Leadership Links Webinar: CAKE – an interactive leadership resource using storytelling to promote healthy workplaces

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This webinar will introduce participants to a novel, digital, interactive leadership resource: CAKE.

CAKE was co-designed with healthcare practitioners to support individual and team well-being and effectiveness. In the webinar we will harness the power of storytelling in CAKE to unearth behaviours, rituals and practices in the workplace. Reflecting on these stories and practices, we offer strategies to support team connectedness and healthful workplace cultures. 

Key outcomes:

By the end of the session participants will have:

• Determined the usefulness of CAKE and its effectiveness as a potential leadership resource 
• Experienced the power of storytelling to address workplace issues and learn from good practices
• Considered how CAKE could be taken forward in their workplace

Dr Caroline Dickson

Role:

Senior Lecturer within the Division of Nursing and Paramedic Science at Queen Margaret University

Since beginning her career in nursing in the mid-1980s, Caroline has gained considerable experience within community nursing practice, education and research.
As a researcher within the Centre for Person-centred Practice Research, Caroline has expertise using practice development and other participatory methodologies and a special interest in leadership, person-centredness and developing healthful cultures. This expertise, coupled with Kath’s expertise in storytelling has been fundamental in the development of CAKE.
Being part of a range of national research networks and being a Director of the Person-centred Practice – International Community of Practice, Caroline works collaboratively with colleagues with similar interests.
In 2021 Caroline was recognised for her contribution to community nursing and was awarded a Fellowship of Queens Nursing Institute, Scotland.

Dr Kath MacDonald SFHE

Role:

Honorary Lecturer in Nursing at Queen Margaret University

Kath set up ListenUpStorytelling in 2020 as a means to support professionals who care for others to care for themselves. She is an Apprentice Storyteller at the Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh. Her research interests include: poetry, therapeutic storytelling, creative methods and staff experience at work. Recent projects include performance storytelling at the Scottish International storytelling festival 2023, CAKE, which can be viewed here.

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