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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

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

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

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