Description
How a Story Exchange Works
1. Prepare
Participants get grounded, learn the guidelines, and choose the story they want to share.
Participants get grounded, learn the guidelines, and choose the story they want to share.
2. Share
Partners exchange personal stories, listening with care and attention.
Partners exchange personal stories, listening with care and attention.
3. Retell
Each person tells their partner’s story in the first person, honoring what they heard.
Each person tells their partner’s story in the first person, honoring what they heard.
4. Reflect
The group comes together to discuss what they learned and how the experience can shape future actions
The group comes together to discuss what they learned and how the experience can shape future actions
Prompts
- Tell a story about a time you dressed up in an article of clothing that freed you in some way or helped you express a part of your identity not often shared.
- Tell a story about a moment when you experienced something “supernatural”, what impression did it leave with you?
- Tell a story about a superstition you hold dear and what has made you believe in it?
- Tell a story about an experience with a beloved ancestor (living or passed on) and what they represented for you?
- Tell any story about the fall that resonates with you.