Story-Power-Place: Upcoming Facilitators Training Cultivating Liberatory Power Through Story

How might we intentionally illuminate narratives that serve collective thriving, through the stories we share? Join the Food Culture Collective for "Story, Power, Place," an online facilitation course starting March 26th. Participants will learn to engage storytelling as a transformative communal practice in liberatory power, fostering connections and empowerment within their communities. Thank you to Pui-Ling Lew, Food Culture Collective Co-Director, for sharing this announcement with the NCDD network! Learn more in the blog post below.

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Story Power Place: A 7-Part Virtual Training for Story Facilitators

Applications are open now for the Story, Power, Place facilitation training from Food Culture Collective!

STORY, POWER, PLACE is a transformative training that offers participants the opportunity to deepen into the role of facilitator as well as storyteller among a community of fellow food advocates, changemakers, and engaged peers. 

Holding space for liberatory stories to be heard, through personal and public storytelling, is a vital part of reshaping our world. This spring, you’re invited to join Story, Power, Place, in which participants will learn to engage storytelling as a transformative practice in liberatory power. This course from Food Culture Collective develops the skills such as: generous listening and consent; cultivating deep and transformative connections through story; narrative strategies for collective liberation; and how to support liberatory community power in the places we call home.  

The course journey includes:

• 2-hour workshops across 7 weeks, in community with fellow food advocates, changemakers, creative and cultural practitioners.
  • 2 tracks to choose from:
    • Tuesday late afternoon/evenings, March 26 - May 21 or
    • Friday late morning/early afternoon March 29 - May 24.
• Training team led by transformative storyteller Tannia Esparza of Girasol Descendants with FCCltv Co-Directors Pui-ling Lew and Jovida Ross.
• Sliding scale and pay-what-you-can fee structure.
• Rolling applications open until March 25th.

To learn more and apply to join the training please visit: foodculture.org/story-power-place. 

The course covers the following themes and practices: 

• Stories for exercising liberatory power and shaping governance of relationships, resources, and narratives 
• Activating food community through place-based storytelling
• Facilitation care practices: Deep listening, trauma awareness, embodied consent, and sovereignty, responsive awareness, self-care 
• Relationship between stories, narratives, and cultureStory and narrative strategies to affirm mutuality, reciprocity and belonging
• Decomposing supremacist cultures through liberatory power
• Facilitation & story circles as narrative and cultural strategy
• Stories for reciprocal ecologies and food community mapping 
• Experiential storytelling as a link across generations. 
• How personal and historical relationships to place, community, and belonging inform one’s story facilitation practice;