Nancy King Stories

Story: Catherine's Fate Materials
Focus: Developing Inner Resources Materials
Paint: An image of “inner resources.”
Write: Words that hinder and help the development of these resources.
Share: Images and words.
Reflect: On images and words, what hinders and helps the development of our inner resources.
Tell: Catherine’s Fate
Consider: Catherine is the beloved daughter of wealthy parents. It is likely there were servants at her beck and call, doing whatever she required or asked them to do. Yet with no preparation, she is forced to live by her wits, pursued by a relentless Fate.
Imagine: An encounter that Catherine has before meeting the woman who first employs her.
Sculpt: An image of this encounter.
Share: Encounters and ways in which Catherine deals with the situation.
Reflect: On how Catherine develops the wherewithal to survive in a radically different situation from which she was brought up and so recently lived.
Imagine: You have the opportunity to meet with Fate. What would you ask for, if anything? How would you deal with her?
Write: A brief story of your encounter with Fate.
Share: Stories.
Reflect: On stories and issues raised.
Remember: A situation where your inner resources were tested. What enabled you to deal with this situation? Were you to deal with it now, what might you do differently? What accounts for this change?
Share: Highlights of experience.
Reflect:

On story, session, and developing inner resources.

Excerpted from Dancing With Wonder: Self-Discovery Through Stories,
published by Champion Press.

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All material copyright © Nancy King 2011. Updated January 2011.