I met Hannah and Sam at a deli in Powell Gardens after a morning of hustling around. I thankfully remembered before I left the house that I would need to go to a local music store beforehand to buy an XLR cable to use with my new shotgun microphone, since today would be the first…
All posts in Trauma
Mentors: First Volunteer Training
Posted on Author kylePosted in Communion, Educational Practices, Faith-Adjacent, Formation, Guiding Principles, Hope, Logistics, Partners, Pastor, Presence, Recreation, Relational Practices, Researcher, Spatiality, Spiritual Practices, Stillwater Children's Center, Storytelling, Tracings, Trauma
Although I had already begun to understand my relationship to Tapestry as genuinely inquisitive, the January 2019 training for new Tapestry mentors was the first engagement in which I took proper field notes. This account and many subsequent accounts are drawn largely from those notes, from which I have removed identifying or seemingly extraneous details.…