I have already written, some, about the New Horizons Small “Zones of Peace” newly refined agenda to shift our attentions away from community dialogue, as we had been doing for years with our Coffee House Conversations programs, to an intention to focus more on one-on-one dialogue.
Using our partnering with Storycorps, as a backdrop, we have, now, beginning with our Storytelling Workshop Series, live and online, launched this new plan over the past month.
Our introductory pathway was about strengthening bonds, designed primarily for our local community. Following up on the countless things we learned in the process of teaching skills to attendees, in our live workshop, we moved our storytelling project forward with a mission of utilizing storytelling as a viable vehicle for resolving many and varied social problems beyond that.
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| We all have lots to learn --- from one another. |
As a result an overview of programs we are currently developing includes these items –
- Storytelling (along with an introductory Coffee House Conversation program) to soon be added to the list of activities at a seniors community;
- A pending project to bring our Storytelling Workshop Series, as a unifying activity, onto a local campus.
Might we take up the gender gap with storytelling on college campuses? We think we're gonna give it a try!
Might you, personally, like us to, also, bring this project to your college campus and help you begin setting up your own StoryCorps platform?
Imagine what it might be like to have your college campus have its own StoryCorps archives, with your voices and stories, preserved for perpetuity!
- A storytelling project geared to drawing out stories of female, adult Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE), specially designed to empower and support women with healing and integrating sexual harassment and abuse trauma experiences, some long hidden, from situations such as the Harvey Weinstein/Hollywood scandal has unloosed;
- A pending project for our local community to gather stories from our key leaders, political and otherwise;
- A project, now in motion, for me, personally, to collect stories from neighbors, living in the magical locale we share up in the mountains above Harpers Ferry. (A great way, possibly, to pass through the cold winter weather that sometimes makes driving difficult up here and, maybe, walking a little less so.)
- A pending project to arrange one or two Storytelling Holiday Workshop Parties
Especially for a building small “zones of peace” project officially, launched slightly only a month ago!
We are on our way and thought you might like to know about our progress!
See how our storytelling approach can work?
Each and every one of these projects has direct tie-ins to an intent to elevate some social difficulties out of the problem area into the possible. Such as bringing seniors, living in community with many new people they may never have known in their earlier years, to grow their new community bonds stronger.
Your family, friends, neighborhood, group or organization can do it too!
Keep in mind that "An enemy is someone whose story you haven't yet heard."
What turns the enemy situation around? Storytelling, of course!
We will be glad to guide your unique efforts.
For details, Contact: Anastasia Rosen-Jones
Email: SuperSleuthDSW@aol.com, Cell: 240.409.5347
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