This table is an annotated summary of the activities that comprise the Tapestry volunteer training, which all adult participants must complete before they are eligible to serve as mentors. In addition to descriptions of each activity, I have made comments about the various forms of sensory experience, communication, and learning incorporated throughout. In other words,…
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Figure 1
This is a photograph of the final configuration of the objects Hannah uses to tell the story of Tapestry’s guiding principles. The presentation represents a faith-adjacent remix of the Godly Play storytelling tradition, a popular religious education practice inspired by Montessori techniques.
Co-Created Artifact: Yesenia’s Story
Kyle Matthew Oliver · Becoming Tapestry: Yesenia’s Story A podcast-style digital story cut from Tapestry mentor Yesenia’s “exit interview” with co-directors Hannah and Sam, by permission of all participants. Yesenia is an alum of Team Z, and this artifact bears substantial similarity to the video-based story the team composed several months after her departure. In…
Meeting: Facilitator Training Lunch, Reflections on the Move
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 Tapestry: Mini Golf with Team R
I arrived at the course on my bicycle mid-morning. I could see a group that looked like Hannah and company in a large tent structure. I walked around to one end and came in. Upon entering, I said hi to Deacon Derek, and then sat down and talked to Liam, Hannah’s husband. He asked about…
Mentors: First Volunteer Training
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.…