Story Medicine for Racial Healing
A Seven‐Week Class Presented by Meta Commerse, MFA, CWP
Seven Learning Tools:
- An indigenous frame of reference
- The power of words
- The value and sacredness of story
- Memory as raw material and community resource
- Heart-centered language for what has happened to us
- Creating community study, dialogue, and healing
- New self-care skills necessary for working with this subject
Meta is a certified wellness practitioner, author, seasoned teacher, and healer focused deeply on issues of oppression since the early 1990s. In that time frame, she worked with groups and individuals using story medicine in numerous formats. She’s a proud graduate of Goddard College in Vermont where she earned her MFA in fiction writing.
Story Medicine for Racial Healing takes place Wednesdays, August 22 through October 3, 2018 from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at The Chapel, 20 Beverly Road West, Asheville, NC 28806.
Cost: $225. To register, email [email protected], or call 828-407-3367. Space is limited. First come, first served. A scholarship is available.
More details at storymedicineworldwide.com
