LIFE THROUGH A HEALING STORY LENS |
Monday, July 16
8-9:30 eastern Free and online
The one gift I can see in these horrific times is the emergence of powerful healing communities at the grassroots and global levels. We are taking our destinies out of the hands of a government that doesn't care about the people and entrusting them to small communities of people who do care -- both locally and globally through the wonders of the internet.
These Story Sanctuaries are intended to be a place for building a grid of deeply caring people and communities. To me, there's no more powerful way to build community than to sharing our stories.
Story (an artistic re-imagining of our lives) offers both a narrative through-line moving ever forward like a river to the sea, and a great maternal container that holds all of life in a moment -- light, shadow, yearning, resisting, external obstacles, looking forward, looking back, and being grounded in the present.
Whether you are interested in writing your story or living through it resiliently, this session will focus on deconstructing and reconstructing the moments you are living into an emerging through-line that can bring you home to your calm center.
These groups are small and people have begun registering for this one. To register, please write julietbrucephd@gmail.com. I will send you my Zoom Room link a few days before.
Image: via 4 Powerful Ways to Use the Art of Storytelling
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My book in progress: A Write of Passage: In the Darkness, a Story Path Home
Authors Guild Website: The Story Zone
"Everything is clear now: why I had to go there, why things happened the way they did, what I learned and how I changed.
But at the beginning of this tale, on a sun-burnished September day in 1994, I stood before a locked iron door to a maximum security unit for criminally insane male inmates–killers, rapists, kidnappers and burglars declared not guilty by reason of insanity, and incarcerated here until at some undetermined date they were deemed safe to return to the community.
The door held a peculiar message. Once upon a time, it had read "Welcome to Ward 10," in contac paper letters attached just below the barred window. By the time I arrived, the "l" had fallen out and faded blue letters spelled, "We come to Ward 10." I noted it with some unease, but followed my escort with a spirit of adventure over the threshold into the unit."
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, Juliet Bruce, PhD, 2018.
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WANT TO WORK PRIVATELY WITH ME OR BOOK A TALK OR STORY SANCTUARY FOR YOUR GROUP?
I am available for professional trainings, community, family, and individual sessions. Please visit my Living Story practice website for more information on content and fees. Living Story
I will be giving a talk at the Jung Institute/NYC on "The Firebird: Exploring Depression as Transformational Ground through Story" on Oct. 2, 12:30-1:30.
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