This blog post was written by Julia Jung, the FEELed Lab Administrator.
Last semester, we came up with a set of current lab practices using the rich pictures method described in this FEELed Note. Building onto that, we held another workshop using a storytelling method at the FEELed lab last Saturday, March 15. We wanted to dive deeper into what each of those practices actually means and looks like in detail for us.
We used the storytelling method that Matt Rader introduced to other FEELed Lab members in our Enhancing Access & Inclusion Project. Basically, we asked everyone to look at the list of lab practices and then create 3 brief written or visual stories connected to one of the practices and bring them to our meeting. If you are interested in the more specific prompts we used, you can check them out here.
On the day of our meeting given it was a Saturday, and we wanted to embody the practices of slowness and conviviality, we started with a shared breakfast. First though, we took some time to say hello to the creek and the trees, and to be with the slowly falling snow.
Then we shared our stories. We took turns reading the stories out loud and noticing any shared themes, associations or other memories and sensations came up.
We talked about the difficulty of accessing the lab and lack of public infrastructure to visit, about noticing the seasons, developing a practice of attention and the question of what giving back to this place really means?
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