Holding Space/ Ideas From Susan Cunningham About The Talking Day
Being able to tell our story, both the good and the bad, to someone who listens with compassion, helps to develop new, healthy, and whole stories–regardless of what prior experiences a person may have had.Telling stories that include both brokenness and blessing to a compassionate other, leads to empathic understanding of others and ourselves and interrupts patterns of intergenerational violence.
When this includes the experience and knowledge of God’s loving presence within us and all around us, it can profoundly alter our sense of ourselves and our relationship to creation at the deepest levels.
– Father Richard Rohr