Listening for Our Times: A Story Circle

Name: Listening for Our Times: A Story Circle
Start: 2025-03-23T13:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-03-23T14:30:00-04:00
Location: The Current

Schedule

Sun Mar 23 2025 at 01:00 pm to 02:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

The Current | New Bedford, MA

a way to pause and take a breath and a way to connect with others through sharing stories.
The Listening for Our Times: A Story Circle is a way to pause and take a breath and a way to connect with others through sharing stories.
These days when we talk about stories, we are usually talking about a newspaper story or a literary short story. But here we mean something different—a true story that comes from our own experience. We remember moments that are meaningful to us, whether they are about hard times or good. If we can really be open to what comes up for us to share at the moment, sometimes we are really surprised in a positive way, and what we have to say is often interesting and memorable for others as well.
The experience is designed to be connective and to allow us a way to pause in our day.
What is in your heart that you would like to share? Listening Hour Circles are intentionally done in small groups.
About the Facilitator:
Jennie Kristel, MA, REAT, APTT, RMT Is a registered expressive arts therapist, teacher, supervisor, accredited Playback Theatre trainer, and Reiki Teacher, working in a trauma-informed, culturally relevant private practice called JourneyWorks LLC. She is an international trainer of both Playback Theatre and Expressive Arts Therapy, an artist, and a visiting Core instructor at Lesley University. She has written on using the arts in therapy including co-writing Using Art Therapy in Diverse Populations: Crossing Cultures and Abilities, and published chapters and articles about using the arts in the community,, Disability, and grief. She currently works with people and groups using the expressive arts to support healing from intergenerational and ancestral trauma to access Connection through Joy in their lives. She also is a mixed media artist and avid gardener. Jennie lives in the Southcoast of Massachusetts.
Cost: By donation $5-15 recommended