| | Workshops | Facilitators’ sample quotations |
| | Workshop series 1 | The main thing is to just relax and enjoy. It is a wonderful place to be, we are safe here with great people. And we are just really going to discover things. I just wanted to share this expression that I was thinking about. “Whether we are artists or scientists, craftsmen or tradesmen, philosophers or practitioners, we are all creators. We each create best when we use our total self, lending our body and our mind and our spirit” (professional artist).
One of the things to do is to just take a moment, step back, and have a look at (the art piece) from another side of the room and then just giving it a little time, because the neatest thing is you can change it. Right, because I did that tree, and I decided no, I do not want that in there. So now you just listen to that voice inside that says, “What happens if I try this?” Or you might want to completely leave out an area, and that is perfectly all right, you are the creator (professional artist). | | Workshop series 2 | Because stories shift over time when you take them out next week, you might be like, “I do not remember…” this would be me, “I do not remember what I was thinking last week.” Or it might be, “well, that was an interesting story but since I’ve had time to think about it, I feel like this is telling me a different story.” So we are going to do something that involves a process of selection and story next week with all of these contents. So, this is not the end. Even if you have a very linear story and, as my co-facilitator said, it does not have to be, it will change next week with what’s happened to the contents and what you pull out and how you are feeling and what you are thinking next week (principal investigator).
This was an exercise that I did in a workshop called mending stories, it was a visual journaling workshop… the whole idea behind the workshop was that when you keep stories inside and you do not share them, then they have a lot of power to have negative effects on your lives. I am a researcher so there is probably some science behind that somewhere, but this was just the artist’s beliefs so whether you want to buy into that or not, it is entirely up to you. But I do think that we have been storytelling as human beings for a very long time. So, there is power in story and getting stories out, you begin to mend the stories. So, there is a number of ways you can incorporate story into this bag. So, you all brought things in I see, and some people brought extra and that is wonderful (principal investigator). |
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