Witness a story

Activities in Journey towards home support our own journey to connect with ourselves. These activities can be done at any time, in any order, and they are sure to help. If you are looking to do it more systematically, check out our available courses.

Now this is something you are going to do some work for!

Every week, starting this week, allow yourself to indulge in a story – it can be any story! Can be something you hear from someone in your family, if you have your grandparents/parents around ; they have the best stories. Your neighbour, your colleague, a stranger you meet during your commute, talk to them.

If you identify as a person who finds it difficult to have a talk with the strangers or have difficulty to open up, start with someone familiar, a friend or a family member – someone you talk regularly with.

Now, we don’t want it happening formally, stories don’t operate on a switch. So the secret to getting a good story, is to “listen”. You’d be surprised how easy it is for people to share their stories once we listen without preparing a response while they share.

Allow people to open up to you, and you will see how many stories are waiting for you to just sit and listen to them – and who knows, you might find solution to something you are looking for an answer to, or just the joy of looking at that glow in someone’s eyes when they get to tell their story to someone.