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Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 14:04:44 EDT
In a message dated 4/13/01 10:12:27 AM, andreh@USFAMILY.NET writes: >I know the telling of a tale can touch someone but I sense creating space >for people to find and tell their story is at the core of using story as >a healing art. I, too, believe in the tremendous healing power of helping people to find and tell their story. I have found that when I tell/share stories, it helps evoke the stories of others. Donald Davis says that a story isn't complete when I tell it - it is completed when your story comes up beside it. Sometimes, people are reluctant to speak their own experience in a group, but when a story has been heard by everyone there and so we have all traveled a bit of the same journey, that shared experience of story becomes a touchstone and makes it less threatening to speak. And my hope, as well as my experience, has been that for the many, many people who would never work with a "therapist" or in any sort of group, just hearing the right story at the right time can still be tremendously helpful. Gail Rosen | ||