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Session Session 55

Story CirclesStory Circles

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Story Story CirclesCircles

Story Circles can be used:

To provide a safe & women friendly space

For sharing information

For gathering information

As healing spaces

To validate experiences

For emotional support and befriending

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Supporting Supporting Story Story

CirclesCircles

Key things to consider:

Creating a safe and women friendly space

Verbal / non- verbal communication

Formulation of strategies to care for each other during and after the exercise

Dealing with the issues that come out of the stories

Not forcing anyone to join or speak

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Ongoing support strategies and befriending

Peer support/worker debriefing.

Respecting women’s choices, even if you don’t agree with the women’s choices.

Recognize that women’s responses and choices are also informed by their own cultural beliefs and values.

Supporting Supporting Story Story

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SharingSharingStoriesStories

Sharing women & girls stories of the tsunami.

Stories of risk and violence and stories of survival

Our stories and the stories of others

Ways we can support one another and celebrate our strengths