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DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING The Miracle © Patricia Rose Ballard Coffie This is the story of a miracle. My sons found a caterpillar on a stem and brought it home. They wanted to see the butterfly. We put the caterpillar and the stem in a gallon jar and punched holes in […]

DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING A New Story © Terra Lea Dennis I often assume I know how every story is going to go. Well, I have been around awhile and I watch the news; different settings, different characters, the same tragic story over and over and over. But sometimes, somehow stories

DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING     Why I Keep At It © Joan Stockbridge I stumbled into the therapeutic use of storytelling almost 20 years ago, when I was asked to tell stories to women in a domestic violence shelter. After telling a Scottish story, I was shocked by the tumultuous

  DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING         Bubbles © Shirley Routliffe The woman slumped in the wheelchair in front of the picture window. A blue knitted hat covered her hairless head. She was draped head to foot in a blue hospital issue blanket. Fluffy white slippers with rabbit ears

DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING     Broken Bones © Jacqueline Jules He said a clumsy fall down the dorm stairs kicked him off the tennis team and onto the school newspaper making a broken bone the reason why he’s standing at the podium tonight sharing stories from a career he literally

DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING     Scheherazade On The Fourth Floor © Dan Yashinsky >According to the Thousand and One Nights, every night Queen Scheherazade told a story, and every night she stopped halfway through. It would have driven her listeners crazy, but one of them – her husband King Shahriyar

  DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING   Blaming The Chicken Tikka Masala Or what happens when a storyteller has a stroke © Janet Dowling “I think this is an allergic reaction to nuts in a Chicken Tikka Masala,” I slurred to my GP. My tongue was a slab of meat that I

DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING Little Red Car A Toileting Tale © Susan Perrow I’m a little red car – I go fast and far But sometimes I’m slow – too slow to go! Oh no. Oh no. Oh no! I don’t like being too slow to go! Hang on a minute

DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING Therapeutic Learning © Kay Stone What makes a story a source of healing? I asked myself this as I prepared to fly south to Florida to visit my sister Jolene, who is undergoing chemotherapy. I was aware that telling stories face-to-face with a single listener is quite

DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING The Story We Tell Ourselves © Lorna MacDonald Czarnota The art of storytelling brings forth many images—children, elders, comedy, tragedy, audiences large and small, but we may not consider how we tell stories to ourselves, or more specifically, about ourselves. This is particularly relevant to us as