Questionnaires and data-gathering in crisis: adapted methodologies for delivery and implementation of Expressive Writing and Telling in Crisis, Lebanon

Expressive Writing and Telling in Crisis is a humanities-based program which values individual voices and experience. <br>In terms of research, it attempts to take a 'with' not 'on' approach.<br>This project established that even in crisis, once primary needs are fulfilled, there may be a place for expressive telling as a psychosocial support for client beneficiaries and also as support to aid workers or social workers in both providing care and gathering information.<br>As part of this research, new questionnaire techniques were developed. Due to Covid, these had to be adapted to the lockdown situation. This collection showcases the following:<br>- Questionnaire and headline results data from the two Joint Analysis Workshops held during the project. <br>- Pre and post questionnaires from the Youth Curriculum in Expressive Telling, piloted by SHiFT International Tripoli.<br>- Monitoring and Evaluation forms co-developed and implemented by AND NGO in Akkar Lebanon, to assess both quantitively and qualitatively, the effective delivery of EWT by social workers there.<br>Headline results from EWT in crisis are that participants 'felt better after', 'found it calming' and 'want to do it again'. <br>EWT providers believe that results are possible because of the nature of the program:- it does not assume one size fits all- it allows for conversations to develop over time, meaning that Covid vaccines and stigmas re Covid could be addressed- participants can develop at their own pace as it is participatory and respondents can feel they are part of shaping the outcomes- it has the idea that something can change, or may transform, at the heart of the program and this permeates the ethos of the whole.