Thank you all so much - I actually steer clear of 'public' confessional narratives and am more interested and involved in enabling people to communicate their story to themselves I suppose, in a way that makes sense to them. Often I get participants to use sensory, non-literal items as tools to narrate and sequence their stories, this can be done in silence. With so many, the words cannot yet come and because of the trauma/neural patterning, then sequencing, remembering can be difficult - only after they have externalised the sequence using the objects do they then talk through it, so their whole story is outside themselves, tangible, with a beginning, middle and end .... this works incredibly well with people who struggle to find words or with limited literacy ability ...
I myself was a selective mute so this idea of #givingvoice is important to me on a personal level too.