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Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 10:14:36 EDT
MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 5/1/04 9:31:45 AM, healingarts101@BELLSOUTH.NET writes: << I am being asked to tell my story about how I came to this point to open a healing arts center. I am not quite sure that i am ready for this. I knew the day would come when i would have to tell my story and it looks like that day is here. Any suggestions on how I might do this without getting too deep into my life story and show how the arts, particularly storytelling can be interwoven as a healing modality. I am not ready to fully expose myself and I am cautious especially at this juncture. >> Karen, First, congratulations and appreciation for your generosity and courage. Telling personal story in a way that is useful for your audience, that relays the message of hope and growth, is a worthy challenge. A couple of coaches who address these specific issues are Doug Lipman and Nancy Donoval. Nancy specifically works with taking a personal story and making sure that the listeners "have room" within it, that it can speak universally. Doug has done much thinking and talking about noticing for whom we are telling the story - who is the beneficiary, the teller or the listener? His point is that we cannot really tell it for our listeners until we have had enough listening ourselves and have told it for our own sake long enough to have really distilled our own meaning from our story. Another technique he (and others) teach is how to take a personal story and to put it into a fairytale or folktale format, which can relay the important messages without the feeling of "exposure." If there is any way you could work with either of these amazing people, I would highly recommend it. And Doug has lots of materials for sale, some of which address these issues too. You might also search the archives of this list - there have been other discussions about telling personal stories. Wishing you the best of luck with finding your way to tell your story. Gail Gail Rosen, storyteller 410-486-3551 721 Howard Rd. Pikesville MD 21208 NEW website: www.GailRosen.com Check out the Healing Story Alliance website: www.HealingStory.org Burnout prevention workshops for hospice: www.HealThy-Self.net ------------------------------- To Unsubscribe from Healingstory send the message: unsubscribe healingstory to: listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu ------------------------------- | ||