Nancy King Stories

Story: Catherine's Fate Materials
Focus: Deriving Meaning from What Happens Participants
Paint: An image of “meaningless” on the left side of the paper.
Write: Words that come to mind.
Paint: An image of “meaningful” on the right side of the paper.
Write: Words that come to mind.
Share: Words and images.
Reflect: On how we differentiate “meaningless and meaningful.” What factors affect our differentiation?
Tell: Catherine’s Fate
Sculpt: An image of Fate when she first became Fate.
Imagine: Her first encounter with a human.
Create: A short monologue, as Fate, where she has to decide what is meaningless and what is meaningful for her and for those she chooses to encounter.
Share: Sculptures and monologues.
Reflect: On issues raised.
Consider: A powerful and important moment in your life. What made it meaningless or meaningful? When you think about it now, are your feelings the same as when the moment originally occurred? If not, what happened to change your feelings? If they are the same, what made it so meaningful?
Imagine: Catherine meeting Fate some years after the story ends.
Create: A conversation they might have about what was most meaningful in the seven years that Fate intervened in Catherine’s life.
Share: Highlights of the conversations.
Reflect: On the story, session, and what gives meaning to our lives.
Excerpted from Dancing With Wonder: Self-Discovery Through Stories,
published by Champion Press.

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