1. Brief description of the community, local setting

(a) Social

1. Name of the community
2. Geographical locality
3. Social stratification
4. Religion/s
5. Ways in which people earn a living or sustain themselves.
6. Ways women earn their living
   - visible
   - not visible or paid for
7. If you were to introduce yourself, what symbol would you choose? why?
8. What are your hobbies?
9. What are your likes and dislikes?
10. List the languages :

1. What are your goals in life? What strategies do you use for healing and how do you decide?
2. How do you plan to achieve them? What strategies do you set and follow? What blocks you from achieving them?

13. What roles do you play?
14. What methods and skills do you have and how do they effect health?
15. Where did your family come from? Where did your husband’s/wife’s family come from?
16. Why did they move to the present place? How many years have they been there?
17. What are your future plans regarding housing?
18. What motivated you to get involved in the healing process?
    What sustain the client in the healing process?
19. When people get sick in your family, how are they cared for?

(b) Economic

1. What resources do people in this community have:
   land, money, man and women power skills, tools, machines, buildings?
2. Who decides on the use of resources?
3. Who profits or who loses from use of resources?
4. What medical facilities are available? Who uses them? for what illness? What are levied by each practitioner? What are the structural causes of illness?

(c) Political

1. Who has the power to effect the lives of: (a) the people (b) women in this setting?
   (e.g. political party members, landlords, elected officials, moneylenders, police, special interest groups, women’s organizations).
2. How do these people get their power?
3. Who gains and who loses from the exercise of power?

Where are women in this struggle?

(d) Cultural

1. What are the dominant attitudes towards illness in this community and how are they expressed?
2. What are the values toward nutrition, child bearing and rearing, education, health, religion? how do the values influence the work of healing?

By the end of the second interview the researcher will have identified the two critical incidents. Ask to write them up.

1. What moved you to go for holistic healing? Write up the process in as fill detail as possible . Use Appendix 3 as a guideline. Follow the change in philosopy, values, and ideology as the client moves from illness to health.
2. What marked the beginning of your healing process? Write it up in as detailed a manner as you can treatment, results, feeling/emotions; beliefs, values and attitude changes.

When these are complete you can schedule the third interview.

GUIDELINES FOR THIRD INTERVIEW

Discuss each critical incident and ask for further details if required. This dialogue brings the client into an integration of the healing process. You can share you analysis of the facts and ask theirs. Together you can plan how you will present the material at the workshop; drama, charts, pupperty,song, etc. You can reflect together on the data and begin to draft the lesson plan of the case study. Discerning questions can open new lines of thinking for the client.

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