COVID-19 Responsive Workshops Supported by our Partners
Trauma Informed Art and Creative Storytelling
"A Storyteller on a Mission" - Changing the narrative on trauma
Therapeutic Art and Creative Storytelling addressing:
- Implicit Bias / Adverse Childhood Experience (ACEs)
- Trauma Informed Care / Mindfulness
- Inter-generational / Community Resilience
- Diversity Training / Youth Leadership Workshops
Danita Rountree Green (R Satiafa) is an author, playwright and trauma healing facilitator, conducting creative workshops addressing various forms of trauma. Using the art of storytelling, Danita unravels self-defeating narratives, helping people move through personal, generational and historical trauma using Spoken word / Visual Arts and Crafts / Performance Art / Movement
Generations Connecting Through Stories
The collective impact of storytelling promotes cohesiveness in a community, bridging young and old, past and present, the wisdom of long-time stakeholders (seniors) and new community investors (youth). Storytelling as a therapeutic word-based art activity is an innovative means of teaching values, traditions and creative problem solving. The collected stories are workshopped to uncover interesting similarities and unique differences in the lives of the youth and the elders. The elders sharing “how I got over” personal stories that demonstrate resilience. In turn, the teens will perform their ACE stories live with each story revealing what they have learned AND how to move through difficult times, building resilience. Our Senior and Teen Storytellers become performers, therapeutically acting out situations and events shared in their commun
Activities combining cognitive and motor skills always provide a way to tell a more in-depth story.