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
- A time despair turned into hope
- Someone in your life who believed in you. What impact did that person have on your life
- A place in your community that feels meaningful to you and why
- A time you volunteered or did work that shapes the kind of world you want to create
- A first time (your first day at school, college, university, the first time you rode a bike, played a sport, acted in a play, fell in love, failed, left home)