DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING © Lenora Ucko, PhD A Storytelling Organization StoriesWork, a Durham, North Carolina non-profit founded by Lenora Ucko in the year 2000, developed a program for group discussion of folk stories to encourage insight and provide tools for coping with life’s challenges. How do we do this? We use the magic and …
DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING © Mike Seliger This poem evolved from a lengthy correspondence between Mike Seliger and Phyllis Blackstone. Phyllis was frustrated by the mechanically proficient but personally distant performance of tasks by care-persons at a nursing home where one of her loved ones was in residence. She initially wanted to send an angry, …
DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING ©Eva Grayzel The spotlight is on the speaker. The audience is observing their outward appearance,gait, where they stand (behind the podium or in front of it). On some level, judgmentsare being made before the speaker even opens their mouth. I can guess what people think about me …
DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING © Mike Seliger The Sky almost Danced tonight.Maybe it was just Clouds,Gliding along on the windIlluminated lightly by a hidden Moon. Maybe if I’d never seen them,The Northern Lights caressing the Sky, And never felt the Infectious JoyOf Dancing beneath their Dancing Light, Maybe I wouldn’t have …
DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING © Jane Valencia On the first day of herb camp I knew that one child was in a place of struggle. I felt immediately that a week outdoors with plants and friends might nourish her spirit in a potent way. It’s fairly well-known these days that time …
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. …
By Lani Peterson, Psy.D. Brenda’s Story Brenda is a tall, strong woman whose smile lights up the circle where eight of us are seated in a storytelling workshop for women whose lives have been touched by homelessness. Brenda’s hair is pulled back into a tight bun; her dress is simple and unassuming. She speaks in …
Creating Personal Storytelling Workshops for Vulnerable Tellers
By Lani Peterson, Psy.D. Chapter 21 in Routledge International Handbook of Therapeutic Stories and Storytelling, Edited by Clive Holmwood, Sue Jennings, and Sharon Jacksties, 2022 Introduction Tall and lean with a fountain of dreads cascading from a red bandana on the top of his head, 19-year-old Martin exuded a nervous energy that permeated the room. …
From Isolation to Integration and Advocacy: Healing and Empowerment through Storytelling
One of the most striking statistics to emerge from the COVID crisis was recently published in a study led by Susan Hillis, an epidemiologist at the Center for Disease Control in the journal Pediatrics. It estimates that “For every four COVID-19 deaths, one child was left behind without a mother, father and/or a grandparent who …
