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Love letter from Israel Day 2 💌 Put 30 brilliant storytellers in a workshop room and prompt them to tell stories. I dare you. I can still feel all the emotions of this day, and the reminder that great stories have conflict, and that conflict comes from dependencies on one another, otherwise there’s no tension. 

Sorta wild to be discussing that theme while delving into the Israel/Palestine conflict, which is calcified in stories of people from different backgrounds. 

We embody our stories. Our stories embody us. The stories we tell travel, they affect others…they’re hardly ever neutral. But we should strive for them to be fair because they always ripple. 

This day reminded me of something I already knew, but the lectures, the workshops, the convos cemented it. The questions we ask impact the stories that get told. The questions that we ask can zoom into details that keep people in boxes and emphasize the biases of the asker, of the world. The questions we ask can also zoom out and help liberate the story, and the storyteller, from the domination of old power systems. 

I’ve asked a lot of questions that have boxed people in. It wasn’t my intention, but it was the impact. I saw one possible solution in beautiful graffiti on a wall in the Wadi Rum desert that said “Education is the bridge from darkness to light” and I’d like to believe that my own education helps me ask better questions that bring out more of the light. 

Very grateful to have been in the company of true masters of that craft. And in deep study with expert teachers of complexity.

More from Israel soon xx
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