Talking Stick is our symbol for the importance of listening to one another. Ours is decorated to show our respect of Native American spirituality, and a respect for telling and listening. The person telling holds the Talking Stick. Is someone wants to respond, the teller passes the stick. Sometimes Answering Feathers are used by participants to indicate they want to respond to the storyteller. LINKS ON THIS TALKING STICK PAGE: |
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Our Small Business Institute is called the "Talking Stick." We see our consulting as facilitating the storytelling and story listening among stakeholders in an organization. My friend and colleague Kaylynn TwoTrees gave me more information about Talking Stick. -- David Boje
"The Circle is form for discourse and sharing because it gathers the people around sacred energy (the elements or intention) and acknowledges The Circle of Life and the Living. Each person comes to the circle to listen and witness - the talking is meant to be listening out loud. It is the way that we express our deeper listening and reminds us to listen for the voices that could not be present. The talking stick/rock/pouch is not a microphone to be passed around but rather a reminder to each person who speaks of the fact that humans are not the only presence in the circle. We are in the circle with the stone people and the tree nation and so on. Each person speaking who holds the stick/pouch/stone is called to listen to their own hearts and listen for the voices of all our relations ( all life on the planet). So the conversation that reveals itself in the talking circle is accretive, a growing chorus of the voices of the people, the landscape, and the Mystery" (Kaylynn TwoTrees, Website: www.ktwotrees.org
Blog: http://2treesnotes.blogspot.com/).
CONTACT INFO TSI CO-FOUNDERS & BOARD MEMBERS:
David M. Boje, Ph.D. 575-532-1693 dboje@peaceaware.com Vita & storytelling articles and books at http://peaceaware.com/vita
Ruth Drayer (April 25, 2008) artist@ruthdrayer.com Moved to Santa Fe in September 2008
Trina Dunbar ( April 28, 2008) 575 680 8760 - retired from board October 2008 trinadunbar@yahoo.com
Virginia Maria Romero (April 25, 2008) cell: 575 644-0214 agzromero@zianet.com
David H. Tobey cell 540-860-9172 dtobey@peaceaware.com
Sample Brochures for those wishing to be part of Talking Stick
There is a Talkingstick Film Festival in Albuquerque, its a different organzation, but we welcome the idea.
