Oasis Call 22 July - Weaving Stories Circle

General
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In the Being part of the Oasis Call today, we connected with an exercise called Weaving Stories Circle

Activity Summary
Intention: Deepen connection through presence, storytelling, and collaborative imagination.
Overview: A guided breakout session to foster community connection through personal storytelling and co-creation.

Structure:

  1. Intro (3 min) – Facilitator introduces the prompt: “Tell a story of a time you were surprised by kindness.”
  2. Individual Sharing (12 min) – In small groups, each person shares their story while others listen silently and attentively.
  3. Collective Story Creation (2–3 min) – Drawing from shared stories, the group co-creates a short, imaginative story—one line or image at a time.
  4. Group Check-Out (1-2 min) – Each person shares a sentence or two reflecting the tone or insight of the experience.
  5. Combined larger group sharing of the experience in the main breakout room (3mins)

I invite those who were in the activity to share a brief overview of some of the stories that were created in the Collective Story Creation section, or to offer any reflections since the activity.

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In my group I seeded it with a real life incident in which my kayak dumped while I was trying to beach it after struggling against an opposing tide. Then dolphins appeared and the main character was lost on shore. The main character wandered into a dark wood. Then I conflated all this with one of my snowshoeing adventures in which I heard something dark and ominous behind a tree. Others turned that into a moose, caught in the brambles. We carefully freed the moose, who thankfully did not charge. We realized that perhaps the kayak tumble was meant to position us to be for service to the moose. (Time then ran out … no time to kiss the moose or dabble in magical transformations, sadly!)

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