Megan Hicks, one of our featured tellers for the 2021 festival, will teach “‘Tell us about it’: Creating Stories to Heal” on Saturday, April 17th in conjunction with the festival. This workshop will run between 90 minutes and 2 hours, and it will be geared toward adults and older teens. Seating is limited to 25 participants.
Description: If you are reading this workshop description, you are a survivor. You have lived through the worst pandemic in 100 years. Surviving hardship exacts a toll — loss, grief, depression, confusion, social isolation. Survivors have a story to tell.
“Nah. I don’t think I’m special.”
“It’s all been such a blur.”
“Words cannot express…”
“I wouldn’t know where to start.”
We start, together in this workshop, by tying our memories, thoughts, and feelings to things that the senses can see, smell, taste, hear, and touch. We identify places associated with those things — a room in the house, an off-ramp on the interstate, another continent, your favorite chair. We start putting words on a page, with no consideration about whether or not, at this point, it’s making any sense at all.
And then we share. As much or as little as we feel like sharing. The sharing sparks more memories, and stories emerge.
When you create a story about surviving a global disaster, you have created a bit of order out of chaos. You have listened, you have been heard. Together, through our stories, we create a community of healing.
Please contact the festival for more information: info@gamountainstoryfest.org.