Heritage
Questions

What metaphor best describes your relationship to your family heritage? A giant hug? A dinner table with everyone talking at once? An anchor? A guidepost?

What story told by (or about) your ancestors has shaped you the most?

How has staying close to your ancestors been healing for you?

If you could talk to one of your ancestors, whom would you choose? And what would you ask them?

What is your favorite family memento? And why does it have such a hold on you?

If you could change one thing about your family heritage, what would it be?

If you could change one thing about our culture’s political heritage/history, what would it be?

Often parents consciously or unconsciously transfer their unfilled dreams onto their children. What have you learned about dancing with your parents’ unfulfilled dreams?

How have your ancestors helped you understand and hold on to beauty?

What story do you want to be remembered by?

What article of clothing ties you to your ancestors?

We usually think of heritage as tied to people, but places shape us as much as our family trees. What “inheritance” was passed on to you by your childhood hometown or childhood house?

What’s the legacy of your first embarrassment?

What’s the legacy of your first award/triumph?

It’s been said that we are remembered for the rules we break. What broken rule might you be remembered by? What rule did your parents break?

What story do you want to be remembered by?