MyJourney to acceptance - when does it start?
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In partnership with The Portuguese Fertility Association (APF) and Fertility Network UK (FNUK), we have developed MyJourney - a bilingual (Portuguese, English) research-based web-app to support people who have exhausted their chances of having the children they wished for. MyJourney will be launched in early November in a joint event by APF and FNUK. It is the culmination of a long research process that focused on understanding how people adjust to an unfulfilled child wish and how to best support them
We invite you to join this event on Sunday 8th November at 7.30pm to find out more about the MyJourney web-app, the social research underlying its development, and the feasibility trial we are currently running.
In addition, we are interested in exploring specific concepts that arose during a previous acceptability study of MyJourney. All participants referred to their adjustment process as ‘my journey’, a metaphor we fully incorporated into the web app. Related concepts were one’s readiness to start the journey, the pace of travelling and how one changes along the journey. The app incorporates topics of positive change along one’s journey and we will present some of these topics visually. We are interested in gaining a better understanding of : 1) your views and experiences reflected in these metaphors and topics; and 2) how you feel these metaphors and topics could be incorporated in the web app (updates) and its branding in a useful way.
To do this, we will show you a set of artistic images based on the journey metaphor presenting narratives that integrate these sub-metaphors (readiness for, pace of, and change along journey) and other topics. We will ask you about your thoughts on these images, whether you think they represent the metaphors and topics, and whether you have any suggestions to make them better. We will also have a poll to find out your favourite image!