Remembering Story Medicine is an evening of myth and folktales told in an old oral storytelling way. The evenings begin with a shared meal, where we meet and mingle and have the chance to form new connections, making new kin. Then we gather in the main space to hear the stories, and to speak aloud where we have been located by them, where our hearts have become resonant or stuck, inspired or unlocked.

These tellings often evoke deep feelings that we seldom get the chance to feel or express, even on our own, let alone in a room of strangers. And therein lies the medicine of these gatherings: they make kin out of strangers.

The gatherings conclude with an invitational ritual with fire or water, inside or outside, under the stars or moon, where we are invited to speak whatever words are there to be spoken into the water or the fire, as open secrets, as prayers, as poems, expressions of gratitude, as lullabies, as sacred speech.