DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING Dear Reader, You will notice that the 2017 Diving in the Moon has a new feature. I have often in the past wanted to make some comments on the journal as we go about putting it together, and so here is my first crack at Editor’s Comments. […]
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By Cindy Rivka Marshall How do communities or organizations encourage understanding and respect of human differences? Those of us who deeply understand the potential of both story sharing and story listening have a lot to offer. I use personal storytelling as a tool for diversity work. I have strong faith in the power of story
March 13, 2019 NPR Back in the 1960s, a Harvard graduate student made a landmark discovery about the nature of human anger. At age 34, Jean Briggs traveled above the Arctic Circle and lived out on the tundra for 17 months. Briggs persuaded an Inuit family to “adopt” her and “try to keep her alive,”
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by Regina Ress By the age of three or so, most of us can speak our native language. We’ve learned its basic structure, a lot of the vocabulary, and, remarkably, how to play with it to create fluid sentences. It is not memorized: it is “acquired.” How do we do that? The great linguist, Noam
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This Event is Best for Ages 18+ Hosted by Karen E. Griffin What makes you swoon or gets your heart pumping? Delve into romantic or playful love stories that are personal, from folklore, or original. Performers Click on name to expand for bio
$5000 to USING STORYTELLING TO PROMOTE GROSS NATIONAL HAPPINESS IN THE ROYAL KINGDOM OF BHUTAN Project Director: Steve Evans In his proposals, project director Steve Evans stated his goals as: To conduct a national values assessment survey To list and annotate all the country’s known published folktales, indicating the values they represent To compare the
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$5000 to BUILDING RESILIENCE THROUGH STORYTELLING New York, NY Project Directors: Juliet Bruce and Sharon Forrence Since 2001, Arts for Life has helped people and communities respond creatively to crisis through the arts. The “Building Resilience Through Narrative” project brings story-making to an often forgotten group of people: humanitarian aid staff, crisis responders, and volunteers
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Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette September 7, 2018 18 local residents will be part of the first Human Library event in Northwest Arkansas, based on programs run twenty years ago in Denmark. Organizer Katherine Ganoung says that the Human Library is a chance to bring “storytelling power back to those who lived out their story every day
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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 The Story is Oblique © Donna Jacobs Sife “It’s no coincidence that just at this point in our insight into our mysteriousness as human beings struggling towards compassion, we are also moving into an awakened interest in the language of myth and fairy tale. The language of
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