A Winter Storytelling Circle: A Roads to Wellness Event
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In the dead of winter, deepen your connection with the community of all beings through the magic of storytelling.
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When:
Time: 2:30–4:30 pm
Location: 93 Campus Dr, MUB 118 (Louis' Building)
A Winter Storytelling Circle: A Roads to Wellness Event
For eons many cultures gathered together around a fire in the dead of winter sharing stories for teaching, healing and community building. Long before television was ever imagined storytellers and bards, prophets and poets were called upon to tell their visions and, through a live encounter, provide images that could direct, entertain, provoke, heal and reconcile the communities in which they worked.
We're missing that wonderful tradition in our modern culture. The magic of oral storytelling can build connection, community and a stronger relationship with nature. Join Ken MacLeod, an eco-narrative therapist with the Student Wellness Centre, as he shares stories to do just that. Music therapist Meghan Bowman will provide accompanying music and song. There will be invitations to share your own stories and sing along as well.
“All that we are is story. From the moment we are born to the time we continue on our spirit journey, we are involved in the creation of the story of our time here. It is what we arrive with. It is all we leave behind. We are not the things we accumulate. We are not the things we deem important. We are story. All of us. What comes to matter then is the creation of the best possible story we can while we’re here; you, me, us, together. When we can do that and we take the time to share those stories with each other, we get bigger inside, we see each other, we recognize our kinship – we change the world, one story at a time…”
― Richard Wagamese
Tell me the story of the river and the valley and the streams and woodlands and wetlands, of shellfish and finfish. A story of where we are and how we got here and the characters and roles that we play. Tell me a story, a story that will be my story as well as the story of everyone and everything about me, the story that brings us together in a valley community, a story that brings together the human community with every living being in the valley, a story that brings us together under the arc of the great blue sky in the day and the starry heavens at night . . . (Thomas Berry, Dream of the Earth, 1990, p. 171).
'Roads to Wellness' was created by the Student Wellness Centre to offer opportunities for wellness and healing to university students and staff in group experiences facilitated by Mental Health Clinicians, Educators, and Counsellors who offer a variety of expressive and somatic techniques. We aim to expand our reach so that students and/or staff/faculty have an experiential gathering time, feel a sense of connection and community, and have broader access to mental wellness services. Guided activities, including expressive making, music, and movement are the core of our programming. Please join us to... EXPERIENCE. CONNECT. CREATE.
For eons many cultures gathered together around a fire in the dead of winter sharing stories for teaching, healing and community building. Long before television was ever imagined storytellers and bards, prophets and poets were called upon to tell their visions and, through a live encounter, provide images that could direct, entertain, provoke, heal and reconcile the communities in which they worked.
We're missing that wonderful tradition in our modern culture. The magic of oral storytelling can build connection, community and a stronger relationship with nature. Join Ken MacLeod, an eco-narrative therapist with the Student Wellness Centre, as he shares stories to do just that. Music therapist Meghan Bowman will provide accompanying music and song. There will be invitations to share your own stories and sing along as well.
“All that we are is story. From the moment we are born to the time we continue on our spirit journey, we are involved in the creation of the story of our time here. It is what we arrive with. It is all we leave behind. We are not the things we accumulate. We are not the things we deem important. We are story. All of us. What comes to matter then is the creation of the best possible story we can while we’re here; you, me, us, together. When we can do that and we take the time to share those stories with each other, we get bigger inside, we see each other, we recognize our kinship – we change the world, one story at a time…”
― Richard Wagamese
Tell me the story of the river and the valley and the streams and woodlands and wetlands, of shellfish and finfish. A story of where we are and how we got here and the characters and roles that we play. Tell me a story, a story that will be my story as well as the story of everyone and everything about me, the story that brings us together in a valley community, a story that brings together the human community with every living being in the valley, a story that brings us together under the arc of the great blue sky in the day and the starry heavens at night . . . (Thomas Berry, Dream of the Earth, 1990, p. 171).
'Roads to Wellness' was created by the Student Wellness Centre to offer opportunities for wellness and healing to university students and staff in group experiences facilitated by Mental Health Clinicians, Educators, and Counsellors who offer a variety of expressive and somatic techniques. We aim to expand our reach so that students and/or staff/faculty have an experiential gathering time, feel a sense of connection and community, and have broader access to mental wellness services. Guided activities, including expressive making, music, and movement are the core of our programming. Please join us to... EXPERIENCE. CONNECT. CREATE.