Healing & Social Change
Storytelling can be transformative for the individual or group, as a catharsis of painful personal experiences.
The documentary 'Wellbriety Journey to Forgiveness' is about a movement in the greater Native American community to address intergenerational trauma and issues through sharing personal stories. While not about digital storytelling specifically, it is a powerful overview of how story can be part of the healing process.
Storytelling is also a means to foster social change and activism in communities large and small.
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Personal Sharing
This is an example of one woman's personal experience with intergenerational alcohol abuse and how she found the strength to overcome it through rediscovering close ties with her culture and family.
These story examples focus on difficult issues such as disability, sex trades, and violence against women.
"These digital stories demonstrate that it is far more powerful and transformative for people to create and share their own movies. The process of people telling their stories in their own voices is as powerful for the storyteller as the end product is for the audience. Participants produce the stories themselves; they are the ones who speak, who decide what is said, and how it is said. Participants’ stories are not mediated through another nor are they (re)presented. Through the storytelling they represent themselves."
Stories by nurses that make connections between their lives and others living through trauma. The site is dedicated to films that hope to seed social change.