Everybody has a story.
Story is the voice of humanity.
Every person is born into life as a blank page—and every person leaves life as a full book. Our lives are our story, and our story is our life. Story is the narrative thread of our experience—not what literally happens, but what we make out of what happens. Story is what we tell each other and what we remember. This narrative determines much of what we do with the time given us between the opening of the blank page on the day we are born and the closing of the book on the day we die.
Story gives us
- The Courage to speak
- The Wisdom to write
- The Power to change
When we pay attention to our life story, and to the stories of other people around us, and to the story of the time and place in which we are living, we become Storycatchers. Storycatchers are people who value story and who look for ways in their everyday lives to honor storytelling and listening, story writing and reading.
Christina Baldwin has been a storycatcher since she was a young girl. At age twelve she began recording the story of her own life in what has become many volumes of journal writing. She has written books about the importance of tracking our life stories, and creating ways to speak and listen to each other with heartfelt respect. She has interacted with tens of thousands of people teaching the importance and power of story. She has put the insights gathered from this work into a book full of stories.
Now, she invites readers and all who are interested in the power and practice of story to join the Storycatchers Network—to reclaim the place of story in our lives.
Story provides the map for how we live our lives.
Story builds bridges where opinion builds walls.
We create the world we want by making the story we want.
Becoming a Storycatcher requires two things: a story to tell, and an ability to listen. Welcome to the Storycatcher Network!
