The power of hope in action: Raising Our Heads Above the Clouds Facilitation Guide

Abstract

This facilitation guide has been created to assist practitioners to use the ‘Raising our heads above the clouds’ methodology from the Mt Elgon Self-Help Community Project. It first outlines the local values that this approach is built on. It then outlines the narrative assumptions and principles that underpin it before taking the reader through each of the steps of the process. The paper also includes stories from practitioners in Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda and reflections about how this approach fosters community economy through collective narrative practice.