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::the wrinkles project::
Several years ago I began going into retirement communities and teaching folks a technique called Memory Mapping. After they had pulled important life moments from their memories and put them on paper, I would have them pick their favorite one as the focus for a story.
I would then teach them two basic things:
1. How to craft the memory into a well spun story.
2. How to orally present the story.
After two workshops they would perform their story in front of their friends... and a storyteller was born.
And The Wrinkles Project began.
Each time I finished the weekend long workshop, I would walk away - saddened that the stories were being left behind, unshared with the outside world.
The goal of The Wrinkles Project is to train a Wrinkles Rep in each state by the end of 2009. These representatives will help train directors of senior citizen communities and facilities on the importance of getting these folks to tell and record their life stories. We also hope to gather many of these stories and put them into a book so their memories will live on.
--Kim Weitkamp
photo courtesy of peter krogh www.peterkrogh.com
If you would like to bring The Wrinkles Project to a retirement community near you or if would like to make a donation, please email us and put 'wrinkles" in the subject line. (send an email) |
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