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Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 18:27:06 EST
MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In a message dated 1/18/2004 2:26:57 PM Central Standard Time,=20 gayesutton@ACTRIX.CO.NZ writes: > However, the women who had such a strong response stayed behind and I sat > with them and facilitated their telling each other the stories they needed > to tell. > It wasn't therapy but it was a building of community among women who had > felt extremely isolated before. Would this not be a part of what > storytelling might do? > I'm just thinking about movies, plays etc, and how they can evoke the same > response and whether we question the ethics of that? >=20 Dear Gaye and all others: I believe this is the foundation of storytelling whether we tell tragic=20 tales, happy ones or those in-between. For the most I don't tell tragic tal= es;=20 true or folk. I have rarely been in a situation where that would be ideal.=20= ( Oh=20 I do have one---but have only told it twice and it was ideal for the=20 settings). Storytelling brings us together and helps build community. It a= lso brings=20 in awareness. As a storyteller I find myself listening more than telling an= d=20 sometimes the stories I listen to are sad but help the teller, as a performe= r,=20 though, I want to give to the audience, not have the audience there for my=20 own emotional needs. Yes some tellers are good, really good, at working wit= h=20 the tragic tales, but I am not there yet and may never be. On a personal level, storytelling and the sharing of stories has helped me t= o=20 work better with the hard knocks of life. I have many great friends in=20 story, my favorite right now are the Silkie. I also have many great friends= in=20 story telling, my favorite right now is Charles de Lint. Each of us need to= find=20 what can get us thru those abusive, difficult times. I have found that=20 dwelling on the tragedy just keeps it there---too close. My mother-in-law r= elived=20 hers every year on its anniversary and all it did was make her life miserabl= e=20 while there were beautiful things happening around her. When she came to me= =20 and did her martyr routine I would come back with a light hearted remark---s= he=20 would laugh and walk away with a lighter step......... Marcia Guti=E9rrez Elgin, IL ------------------------------- To Unsubscribe from Healingstory send the message: unsubscribe healingstory to: listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu ------------------------------- | ||