STORYTELLING : A FORT THAT PROTECTS US FROM DEHUMANIZATION
Close your eyes after each question and write down the first image that comes to mind when you engage with the following questions.
- Picture the most prolific writers of all time.
- Consider the best books you own.
- Who are the most prolific artists, composers?
- Name a painter you can think of.
- Which famous or notable person in all of history would you invite for dinner?
- Who is tending to you at a spa or wellness retreat?
- If you had a housekeeper, how does the housekeeper appear?
- If you hired a labourer from your imagination, how does the labourer appear?
- Describe the personality, outward appearance and characteristics of a Latinx woman
- Describe a muslim woman and how her spouse treats her.
- Imagine the most beautiful woman in the world. What does she appear? What language(s) does she speak?
- Who is the most intelligent innovative and ingenious human in the history of the world?
- What does power look like if it was personified? What would power’s name be?
- What do you think and feel when you hear the words single mother?
- A single father?
- List all the Queens in history you know. And now Kings.
- Quick, create a superhero in your imagination.
How many of those people were:
Dark skinned
Women
Over the age 80
Had a physical disability
Had a thick Arab accent
Was orphaned
Wore a turban or a hijab,
Had kinky hair
Wore a sari or kaftan
Wasn't slim
Had a cognitive or physical disability
Spoke a language from the Far East or the continent of Africa
What does it say about our own (mis)education?
How do we rectify this in simple terms, with love?
Storytelling.
The Indivisible is Exquisite and Loves Beauty.
"The earth has disappeared beneath my feet,
It fled from all my ecstasy,
Now like a singing air creature
I feel the Rose
Keep opening."
-HAFIZ
