Prompt #1: Think of a time you felt joy, happiness, safety. Where does the story reside on your body? How did your body inhabit joy? How would your body show this moment/memory of joy, happiness, or safety? 

Prompt #2: How is your body like a prison? How does your body imprison parts of you? Does it betray you sometimes? Do you fight with your body? Feel trapped by your body?

Prompt #3: What are your hopes for the future? Where do those hopes reside in your body? How do you embody hope and imagination? 

Storytelling: History of how your body has helped you survive and thrive and how it will in the future

Storytelling during the Spring 2024 cohort centered on the importance and desire for nature as a vehicle for nurturing connection, compassion, sustenance,  healing, sustainability, and thriving in the future.  A future of more and a future of less. Abundance. Food. Space. Safety. Animals. Plants. Accountability. Healing. Connection. 

adrienne maree brown writes about and practices emergent strategies related to complex systems and patterns we see in nature. Birds migrating, flocking. Oak tree roots intertwined and resilient. Cells growing, interacting, intersecting. Nature as we are, "aligned, cohesive, critically connected." Adaptation. Changing. Evolving. 

"Everything you touch you change, everything you change, changes you." Octavia Butler