Module 2 Storytelling with Spirituality
Module 2
Storytelling with Spirituality
Mark Yaconelli, an author, retreat leader, spiritual director, story catcher, husband and father who founded The Hearth Community and cofounded the Center for Engaged Compassion, discusses storytelling as the primary practice of the Christian faith, the ways in which stories cultivate hope, how storytelling functions as a relational practice and how you can guide young people to find God’s presence through reflective storytelling practices.
Storytelling as Cultivating Hope
Mark Yaconelli explores stories’ ability to cultivate hope and how Christians, knowing this power, use storytelling as a sacred practice to move toward worlds that the rational mind may not think possible.
The Sacred Power of Storytelling
Mark Yaconelli discusses storytelling as a relational practice that helps connect us with others and ourselves, allowing us to recognize parts of our own human landscape that we may have trouble accessing without storytelling.
Finding God’s Presence Through Stories
Mark Yaconelli encourages us to ask how we can invite young people to savor and attend to their experiences of the world through storytelling, and how stories help young people see God where He’s already present and with them.
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