Stillness In My PPE Circles

Service Description

Reader-Journalist of Stillness In My PPE: A Guided Journal of Praise, Prayer, and Enlightenment During Pandemics come together virtually to share their stories from the journal chapters: My Pandemic Moment, My Identity Awakening, My Beautiful Cracks, My Belongings, and My Insights. Everyone has a story to tell, and often we need the stillness and reflection time to bring our stories out. Storytelling as a tool can have a powerful effect. Developed and used purposefully, storytelling can contribute to inclusion and connection, build confidence, and bring about change. Through our stories, we share passions, fears, sadness, hardships, and joys, and we find common ground with other people so that we can connect and communicate with them. Our stories convey the culture, history, commonalities, differences, and values that unite us as humans. While our stories feel very personal, they are in a lot of ways universal, conveying meaning and purpose that help us understand ourselves better. Additionally, our stories build familiarity, trust, and allow the listener to enter the story where they are, making self and others more open to learning. Participants will also have the opportunity explore how their stories connect and live in their own body, helping them to understand their own emotional experience.