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DESCRIPTION:*This is event is free to attend but pre-registration through Eventbrite is 
 required*\n\nWe miss our volunteers at Homeless Garden Project! We’ve 
 found a way to connect with you during Shelter in Place that brings 
 together many of our favorite elements of community at Homeless Garden 
 Project. It’s through a partnership with Narrative 4, and uses a 
 methodology known as “the story exchange.”\n\nNarrative 4 is a global 
 organization dedicated to bringing people together for meaningful dialogue 
 created through personal storytelling. In the story exchange, we speak from 
 personal experience and hear the experiences of others. Stories are the 
 threads that weave community together. Narrative 4 believes the highest 
 purpose of storytelling is to build empathy, especially empathy that leads 
 to action. Their motto is “Share Today. Change Tomorrow.” At Homeless 
 Garden Project, we believe this partnership will support our goals of 
 promoting a healthy and inclusive community and helping people “find the 
 tools to build a home in the world.”\n\nTo that end, we invite you into a 
 process of story exchange during which you will hear from and share with 
 others from the Homeless Garden Project community, both some you know well 
 and others perhaps not at all. We ask that you come with an open mind and 
 heart, as well as a willingness to tell your story and to hear the stories 
 of others. It will be up to you what story you tell (which typically should 
 take 5-7 minutes), however the following prompts may help suggest an idea 
 for your story selection.\n\nOur first story exchange will consider the 
 idea of “home,” in its broadest meaning. At Homeless Garden Project, 
 many of us have a very special relationship to the farm. We are all shaped 
 by the places where we spend our lives: our birthplace, our hometown, and 
 places to which we move that touch us deeply. These places are the context 
 that give content to our stories, our identities, the ways in which we 
 narrate our lives to ourselves and others.\n\nFor many, our “home” is 
 mostly about the people who give our lives meaning, people we love and are 
 accountable to, who have watched us overcome challenges or grow. Here are 
 some suggestions for your story:\n\n• Tell a personal story that captures 
 what it was like for you to grow up in your neighborhood or town.\n\n• 
 Tell a personal story about your favorite place in the town where you live. 
 Why is this place important to you, how does it factor in your life?\n\n• 
 Communities can be based on many connections—education, service or 
 volunteering, family. Tell a personal story that for you represents the 
 best qualities of living in community with others.\n\n• Bring an object 
 with you which is associated with one of your most deeply held values. Tell 
 a personal story about the significance of this object in your life.\n\n• 
 Tell a personal story inspired by one of the short readings. (These will be 
 provided once you sign up.)\n\nFinding out More about Narrative 4:\n\nIf 
 you would like to spend some time learning more about Narrative 4 and how 
 the story exchanges work and the effects of the experience on others, 
 please watch the videos below or check out this article:\n\no “Our 
 Story” by Narrative 4: https://vimeo.com/120529159\n\no “We are 
 Narrative 4” by Narrative 4: https://vimeo.com/245441574\n\no 
 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39727185 BBC online coverage of a 
 recent exchange\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/03/18835631.php
SUMMARY:HGP's First Ever Story Exchange
LOCATION:Online: 
 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/homeless-garden-project-first-ever-story-exchange-tickets-115549590937
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/03/18835631.php
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