“You can't understand the world without telling a story. There isn't any center to the world but a story." Gerald Vizenor, Anishinaabe

What Vizenor says about the world could also be said about each of our lives. Stories compose our centers. Through our bodies and places, our stories include the ecoscapes within which we live and connect us with the human and non-human beings with whom we share them. Indigenous peoples practice story as a way of understanding the world and increasing consciousness regarding our relationships to it. Storywork is a way of making the world. This talk explores the ways storywork shapes lives by looking closely at the meaning stories we tell ourselves and others make. Stories heal wounds and create pathways to recovery through acts of imagination centered on well-being and animated by possibility. As storytellers, our stories carry medicinal power in our relationships, our communities, and in our own lives. What stories are at work at the center of your world?

Dr. Rachel C. Jackson, Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and Associate Professor of Native Literature and Rhetoric at the University of Oklahoma, will Present.

Friday, October 4th, 2019

Hillsboro Community Center

6:30 - 7:30 p.m.

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