DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING Listening Beneath The Weather: A Storytelling Strategy For Healing In Haiti © Laura Simms This winter in Manhattan, on a day when the snow had all but melted after a storm, I was walking behind a mother and her six year old daughter. We were crossing an […]

DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING i remember home (old stories) © Kwanza Msingwana back home doing flips in the rain rolling in the sand sliding in the mud happy as a chicken bathing in dust giddy with joy playing with toy cars made from bottle tops wires cornstalks and sticks. now screw

DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING Stories That Spark Reflection © Faye Mogensen For some of us, hunting for stories is both a passion and a necessity. Having stories in hand is vital for performance and workshop requests – but that’s not all. When feeling challenged by new situations, having a story to

DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING Evil In The World Today   © Kate Dudding Every time there is yet another terrorist attack, I draw comfort from this story. People say there is a lot of evil in the world these days. Mr. Rogers said, “When I was a boy and I would see

DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING Sharing And Creating Stories In A Mental Health Recovery Centre © Lillian Rodrigues-Pang Once a week I offer a storytelling workshop at a local mental health recovery centre. For one hour I share a range of traditional stories from around the world with whoever is able to

DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING Paperman Jack And The Origami Mommy © Megan Hicks “Forget not to entertain strangers, for some thereby have entertained angels unaware.” New Testament, Hebrews 13:2 That happened to me in the 1980’s. It almost DIDN’T happen because I thought it was just going to be another obscene

  DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING Story Shaping the Grief © Susi Wolf I use Story as a healing tool within all walks of life. Women in crisis. Prisons. Individuals cowering under the tyranny of domestic violence. Those hollow-eyed survivors of every drug known to mankind. The sick – the weak –

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