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 […]
DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING Standing Up While Lying Down © Patricia Rose Ballard Coffie Three days before the only three-day Cedar River Storytellers Festival in Waverly, Iowa, I found I would have to have surgery to check a lump in my breast. I was heavily involved in the planning and the
DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING Hymn to Persephone © Teeya Blatt How I came to write Hymn to Persephone As she is Goddess of the Underworld, I have spent much time getting to know Persephone, and never once did she strike me as a victim of Patriarchy, as she is represented in
DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING The Upside Of Alzheimer’s © Jan Turner A Message of Hope There is a large and growing number of adults engaged in the care of older individuals, often their parents, suffering from Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. At the same time, caregivers may also be called
DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING The Golden Key: Wisdom from the Heart © Mary Louise Chown There is a snippet of a story in the Grimm’s collection about a boy who finds a golden key, and a mysterious casket which belongs with the key, but we are never told what is inside
The Golden Key: Wisdom from the Heart
DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING A Hungry Princess © Srebrenka Peregrin Writing This Story In 2012, as a result of walking away from a high-demand religious community, I went through a number of traumatic experiences that included bullying and isolation from those I loved. These events hurled me into a clinical depression
DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING Her Story, Your Story, Our Story: An Afternoon With Women Who Have Escaped The Troll © Regina Ress and Art by Emily McPhie What message do you want to send to other women who’ve been captured by a “Troll? “Love yourself enough to leave.” Anything else? “Don’t
Her Story, Your Story, Our Story
DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING Storytelling, Movement and Drama with Children © Sue Proctor Over many years of telling stories, I have discovered the healing value of imaginative play by using oral storytelling as a platform for exploring movement and drama with children. In storytelling for children, the teller has an opportunity
Storytelling, Movement and Drama with Children
DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING Stuck In History © Donna Jacobs Sife This month is a busy one for storytellers in Sydney. Being Book Week, or more accurately Book Month, I am scheduled for scores of performances in schools. As always, I will be telling stories from many different traditions. The one
DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING Sometimes A Wild God © Tom Hirons Sometimes a wild god comes to the table. He is awkward and does not know the ways Of porcelain, of fork and mustard and silver. His voice makes vinegar from wine. When the wild god arrives at the door, You
