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It’s day three of our five-day community invitation to this year’s NTI Folx Tales gathering on Friday, May 30. If you’ve already registered, thank you!
Folx Tales feels particularly urgent to us this year. When we think of why, one word that comes to mind is Resonance. We created this gathering, in part, because it is not okay with us how accepted it has become for people to be objectified, robbed of dignity and personhood.
We believe the Narrative Worldview offers desperately needed alternative ways of relating to each other. One of these is relating through Resonance. This metaphor for listening is at the core of Folx Tales. But what does it mean?
To us, it means tuning into one another’s pain, fears, hopes, joys — all the multi-stories. It means allowing space to hold these with attunement before responding. Feeling where the other’s words might live in our own lives. It’s a willingness to be genuinely moved by the life of another person.
How does the felt experience of this get translated into words? We asked some of our previous Storytellers what Resonance means to them. Here’s some of what they shared …
Concept of connection; Sameness is not a requirement of connection; A drum banging and reverberating.
I think of sound — the hum of a bell, invisible waves of sound that move in people from the outside to the inside and out again. It's an invitation to dance.
Seeing relationships as two-way, or even multi-wayed, reverberating and echoing back and forth, mutual beneficialness, the way I can listen to you and listen for myself simultaneously. A breaking out of transactional relating.
Here are some questions we hope might bring an aliveness to the word Resonance. We’d love to hear your responses! You can email them to folxtalesnti@gmail.com.
- What does this word mean to you?
- How does it feel in you? What other words help describe that feeling?
- What metaphors or images does it evoke?
- How would you describe your relationship with this word?
- What are your hopes for how this word might live in your life?
We hope you’ll join us to add your unique, one-of-a-kind music to Folx Tales on May 30th.
In solidarity,
The Folx Tales Team
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