Expressive writing comes from our core. It is personal and emotional writing without regard to form or other writing conventions, like spelling, punctuation, and verb agreement. Expressive writing pays no attention to propriety; it expresses what is on your mind and heart.
Expressive writing pays more attention to feelings than the events, memories, objects, or people in a narrative. Like narrative writing, expressive writing may have the arc of a story: beginning, middle, and end. Sometimes, expressive writing behaves like a story that swells to a crest and resolves itself on firm ground. However, expressive writing is often turbulent and unpredictable, which is OK. Expressive writing is not so much about what happened as how you feel about what happened or is happening. (Evans, 2012)
Evans, J. (2012). Expressive Writing | Psychology Today. [online] www.psychologytoday.com. Available at: https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/write-yourself-well/201208/expressive-writing [Accessed 7 Nov. 2021].
I translated this description into Thai for my participants to explain what expressive writing is in this research.
I will begin my intervention this Thursday to Sunday with 7 participants.
After Dragons Den, one of the dragons spoke about her burnout to me, and she thought burnout and depression were the same. People don’t want to move or do anything. Because she has experience in that before, and she is also working in creative industries.
My project is about burnout and creative industries, but the context is in Thailand. Some of the people working in Thai creative industries I have already interviewed about feedback from my previous interventions, and they were helpful.
These create the ARGUMENT.
Culture in Thailand is not universal; It’s a subjective experience
I have evidence and the opportunity to refine the research question of whether it’s for everyone.
This is subjective, and it can be written in the introduction and conclusion of my report.
I have to clarify that it might work for Thai people more.
Burnout may be different in cultures and countries.
Suggestion…
Compare Thai and UK or US
Is it possible to find people who are not Thai but working in Thai creative industries?
RQ: How can self-awareness of ‘burnout’ be adopted among individuals in Thailand’s creative industries?
That means If individuals in Thailand’s creative industries have self-awareness of ‘burnout’ — so it answers the question.
To do.
Show the context of danger to everyone and why it is different.
How do you generate awareness?
Awareness: more or less?
If the outsiders don’t understand what I am doing, that means I am communicating it wrong.
After tutorial and Reflection with myself, these are the learning and plans.
for draft report
Evaluative Report 1750-2000 words
13 • YOUR QUESTION: How can self-awareness of ‘burnout’ be adopted among individuals in Thailand’s creative industries?
300 • WHAT: An outline of the subject matter, enquiry, problem or observation which lies at the focus of your question
People in Thailand’s creative industries have burnout and don’t know what they have or what to do with it.
500 • WHY: Why is this research valuable to you and the world? This is supported by secondary research.
Awareness of burnout helps them prepare and know more about their problem so they can do better work in the future.
600 • HOW: How did you accomplish your project in practical terms? What were the research methodologies adopted? Here, you will also provide some detail of the various interventions you have carried out, including stakeholder and expert feedback – and also document and report changes that have occurred as a result of the interventions.
Research onion, design, My 1-6 interventions, feedback, and the common theme
What made me shape the new research question?
Highlighting the beneficial results that can arise from adopting effective self-care strategies.
What I learned
600 • CONCLUSION: What have been the positive implications? What was learned as a result of the process? What were the learning edges? What were the benefits and advantages to your stakeholders? What are the future implications and how has this now positioned you (and your stakeholders/community) at the end of this project?
Finding help your target audience or they know more
Next step/ Recommendation.. Future plan (give advice on what I learn to people who read my research)
Insight
Legacy … (if)
Add photos from interventions
…
Suggestion
I should interview people
Evidence – should be a conversation, not summarise
It can be transcript in eng
‘What they say’ in the interview
Use the important questions
Summarise can’t be evidence
Also… make the connection between 2nd research and experts
Which one is the most effective way???? – We don’t know [yet]
Change of the research question:
How can self-awareness of burnout be – generated, developed, maximised, spread, adopted – among individuals in Thailand’s creative industries?
How can self-awareness of burnout be adopted among individuals in Thailand’s creative industries?
It means that you continue to do something even after the intervention has ended.
Suggestion POINTS
What are the signs of burnout?
Can you reverse those symptoms? And HOW?
How can someone self-diagnose the symptoms of burnout?
Reflection:
I didn’t think about the point of adaptation and what people going to do after the intervention before. I know that I will give them the self-care technique and I hope they will use it but I didn’t think about whether this is the best way for them or not, if not.. what is the best way for them and what way they gonna like and want to keep doing it.
