DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING [su_divider top=”no” divider_color=”#000000″ link_color=”#3b48b0″ size=”1″] 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 […]

DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING [su_divider top=”no” divider_color=”#000000″ link_color=”#3b48b0″ size=”1″] 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

DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING [su_divider top=”no” divider_color=”#000000″ link_color=”#3b48b0″ size=”1″] 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

DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING   [su_divider top=”no” divider_color=”#000000″ link_color=”#3b48b0″ size=”1″]   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

  DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING     [su_divider top=”no” divider_color=”#000000″ link_color=”#3b48b0″ size=”1″]     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

DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING   [su_divider top=”no” divider_color=”#000000″ link_color=”#3b48b0″ size=”1″]   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

DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING   [su_divider top=”no” divider_color=”#000000″ link_color=”#3b48b0″ size=”1″]   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

  DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING [su_divider top=”no” divider_color=”#000000″ link_color=”#3b48b0″ size=”1″]   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

DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING [su_divider top=”no” divider_color=”#000000″ link_color=”#3b48b0″ size=”1″] 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

DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING [su_divider top=”no” divider_color=”#000000″ link_color=”#3b48b0″ size=”1″] 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