HABS: Healing Alienation &
Broken Stories
Celebrating Black Family
Family-Lore Project
Course:
AYA Educational Institute
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Wekesa
Madzimoyo -
Educator &
Storyologist
Join me in this wonderful course:
Celebrating Family & Healing Broken Stories
I will personally teach each session online-live via Zoom When: Saturdays mornings 10:30am-12:30pm Eastern Sat. April: 13 Orientation (free to the public) Sat. April 20th (official start) Sat. May: 11, 25 June: 8th FLP Conference Sat. June 22nd, June 29th
This $499 course has been
discounted to $239.
That’s less than $40.00 per class
This includes:
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Bring an additional family member with you
for no extra fee!
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Paid registration to our annual Family-Lore
Project conference in Atlanta.
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Portal for storing and sorting your discoveries
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Private group sharing area - our own priviate
social media intranet for community sharing
and support.
Tuition
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Celebrating Family &
Healing Broken Stories
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Other people’s stories surround us via radio,
TV, the Internet, magazines, books, sound
tracts, and more. All of them advocating
something: an attitude, outlook, a value, a
fact, a product, an experience.
What are these stories
doing to us, and are we at their mercy?
Sounds like David vs. Goliath, right?
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How can mere family stories counter
these gigantic alien stories?
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Alien Stories
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Can they protect us? Can they direct our
focus in the sea of madness? Yes! Yes!
Yes! Just as David loaded his slingshot
with rocks, you’re loading yours - with
stories.
You already know the power of stories.
They shape us, tell us how to interpret
our experience, and how to relate to one
another. They even tell us what’s possible.
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Our Power
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What are the shared family stores that
make us a family and extended family?
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Are there family stories with heroes,
sheros, villians, rogues, martyrs,
rebels, intrigue, suspense, etc?
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Will those stories die when the elders
are no longer able to tell them?
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Have you shared your stories and the
family stories (character, vision, values)
that will protect your children and
family against the rough winds of the
future?
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Have you gathered the stories of yester-
year so when our story falters, you can
lean on shared stories to sustain you?
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The Future
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Three months of training and
supportive immersion including
registration for our June 8th Family-
Lore Project conference in Atlanta
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Six live online sessions- attend from
anywhere phone/tablet/computer
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Videos of all training - watch again
and again
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Online portal - use private resource
area for ideas, inspiration, options
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Get:
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A supportive community - inspire and
get inspired to collect, reflect, write &
share
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Support to get your family and
extended family involved
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Your own publishing blog - family can
see and interact
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Opportunity to publish in national FLP
book
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Testimonials
“Salute, my brother. You demonstrate
the power of OUR stories and the
much needed lessons that can be
gleaned from them." - E. Caver
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Wekesa
Madzimoyo -
Educator,
Storyologist
Join me in this wonderful course:
Celebrating Family & Healing Broken Stories
I will personally teach each session online-live via Zoom When: Saturdays mornings 10:30am-12:30pm Eastern Sat. April: 13 Orientation (free to the public) Sat. April 20th (official start) Sat. May: 11, 25 June: 8th FLP Conference Sat. June 22nd, June 29th
“Teach with that African love.
We need it badly.
Call us together to share our family
love stories. We all have them if we
have been paying attention."
J. King
"Baba, you have spoken to my spirit. I
am also step mom of a child born under
challenging circumstances. My
relationship with my husband’s son is
non-existent. Much hurt and pain keep
us separated but heart prays for healing
and forgiveness all around. Thank you
for sharing and being a witness."
M. Sampson
The Course
For years now, we’ve been helping our youth
and their parents find, curate, tell and publish
their family stories.
This course - Celebrating Family & Healing
Broken Stories (CF-HBS) - is primarily for adults
and for those wishing to host our physical youth
sites.
While the youth version is aimed at healing
alienation and motivating academics, the adult
version adds “healing broken stories.” Both are
about celebrating and connecting family.
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Over the years, people are initially excited about
family stories, then after a week or so, they seem
to not be able to find anymore.
It’s not apathy; oppression and injected
oppression have hidden them, or distorted them.
They are still there - mountains of them, and even
more just beneath the surface. Let’s find them!
Finding Stories
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Curating Stories
Within the context of the the digital age, we
use the term ‘content curation’ to describe the
process for gathering, organising and
presenting information from your family-
lore.
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Writing Stories
We’re not writing books in this class. We’re
finding and writing the gems from which great
stories are told and great books are made. We’re
writing reflections, analysis, interviews , and
stories - sometimes pieces of stories. We’re
writing about family prose, poetry, proverbs,
sayings, recipies, photographs, quilts, cars.
family lore!
Intimidated? Be encouraged! Wherever we find
them, we write about them - a sentence, an
essay, an article. It’s all good.
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Broken Stories?
“The stories we live by can be broken. They no
longer adequately explain our experience or give us
enough reason to get up in the morning. Sometimes
we come to doubt there is any story to our life at all.
We lose any sense of ourselves as characters making
significant choices. In such cases, we need to heal
our broken stories. The best cure for a broken story is
a new story.” D. Taylor
Re-write them!
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Telling Stories
Not only will we help you find the
stories, we’ll help you become a
better storyteller as well.
After-all, this is about connecting to
family. Stories are an inexhaustable
resource for connecting and healing.
You will surprise yourself.
Discover the Djali or Djalimuso (griot) in you!
Add your voice and your family
stories to keep the Afrikan oral
storytelling tradition alive.
Goal: A Baker’s Dozen
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That extra little bit
makes it oh so sweet!
Out of the many many story items
you’ll find on this journey, we’ll
support you developing 13!
Some of them will help forge bet-
ter connections. Others will trans-
form broken stories into stories of
joy, peace and power. All of them
will celebrate your family-lore and
legacy.
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Wekesa
Madzimoyo -
Educator,
Storyologist
Join me in this wonderful course:
Celebrating Family & Healing Broken Stories
I will personally teach each session online-live via Zoom When: Saturdays mornings 10:30am-12:30pm Eastern Sat. April: 13 Orientation (free to the public) Sat. April 20th (official start) Sat. May: 11, 25 June: 8th FLP Conference Sat. June 22nd, June 29th
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Family-Lore Project
One-time Payment
$499.00
Registration
Three Monthly Payments
$83.33 (total: $250)
Contact
Telephone : 404.201.2356 Email : wekesa@gmail.com Website : www.ayaed.com/cfhbs Address : 852 Brafferton PL Stone Mountain, GA 30038
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