Creating Healing Stories for Children in Need
Online Workshop for WAPASA hosted by Kathy Rinden (Saturday July 11, 2026 --- 12 noon Eastern, 9 am Pacific)
As parents and teachers, we often find ourselves in need of a specially created healing story to help a child. Stories can bring comfort and solace to a child who is grappling with personal trauma or certain specific difficulties in life. It is often the case that, unfortunately, there are no published stories that we can look to that are tailored to the child’s specific situation. In this workshop, you will learn how to attune yourself with the child and meditate on what they might need from a story, in order to soothe and guide their souls through difficult experiences. In my own education, in workshops and trainings with Nancy Mellon and Susan Perrow, I have created and practiced how to carefully and thoughtfully craft a story that will nurture and heal traumas and difficulties; that will guide, and comfort, bringing hope and images that speak directly to an individual child in need. During this workshop, we will learn about the essential building blocks that are necessary for the development of a therapeutic story, for helping to restore health and balance. Designing such stories is such a gift to another, and can incorporate all of the unique choices that we make as the story’s creators.
We will explore the best ways to decide how to delicately weave the conflicts, characters, settings, and resolution of conflicts, in order to bring about an encouraging and unique story that will guide a child in difficult circumstances. This story-creation-journey will outline a path for us to follow, which I have found to be very effective in my own work and practice. It can become an extraordinary way to support the needs of children dealing with overwhelming feelings. As a participant, you will be given examples of stories that I have developed, and those stories will be a roadmap to how you too can find your own ways to bring to fruition themes and images that bear witness, understanding, and compassion to children of all ages.
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Online Workshop for WAPASA hosted by Kathy Rinden (Saturday July 11, 2026 --- 12 noon Eastern, 9 am Pacific)
As parents and teachers, we often find ourselves in need of a specially created healing story to help a child. Stories can bring comfort and solace to a child who is grappling with personal trauma or certain specific difficulties in life. It is often the case that, unfortunately, there are no published stories that we can look to that are tailored to the child’s specific situation. In this workshop, you will learn how to attune yourself with the child and meditate on what they might need from a story, in order to soothe and guide their souls through difficult experiences. In my own education, in workshops and trainings with Nancy Mellon and Susan Perrow, I have created and practiced how to carefully and thoughtfully craft a story that will nurture and heal traumas and difficulties; that will guide, and comfort, bringing hope and images that speak directly to an individual child in need. During this workshop, we will learn about the essential building blocks that are necessary for the development of a therapeutic story, for helping to restore health and balance. Designing such stories is such a gift to another, and can incorporate all of the unique choices that we make as the story’s creators.
We will explore the best ways to decide how to delicately weave the conflicts, characters, settings, and resolution of conflicts, in order to bring about an encouraging and unique story that will guide a child in difficult circumstances. This story-creation-journey will outline a path for us to follow, which I have found to be very effective in my own work and practice. It can become an extraordinary way to support the needs of children dealing with overwhelming feelings. As a participant, you will be given examples of stories that I have developed, and those stories will be a roadmap to how you too can find your own ways to bring to fruition themes and images that bear witness, understanding, and compassion to children of all ages.
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