Bruce Kuhn

Had a workshop today with an actor, Bruce Kuhn. I took part, together with my friends Tswa and Charlton and about 15 others. It was on storytelling and the skills Bruce taught and we explored connect well to a number of the projects that I am involved in or want to start up. So it was good and useful and I'm glad that guys I work with and collaborate with were there so that we worked together. That will be useful for following up and drawing on the ideas in future. In particular, Bruce's work is linked to the bible and the gospels of Luke and Mark. It really got me thinking about eyewitness accounts and the passion with which we tell stories that we connect with and it reminded me again of the idea I've had for some time to find ways to tell peoples stories and use peoples stories as part of reconciliation and peace-building work. It was good to have some time to chat to Bruce too - a small group of us had a night out at the farm and came back yesterday morning. Definitely need to follow-up on the story-telling idea and I think I have also now got an idea of how to use it as part of another project I'm working towards with the new Bishop here, Cleophas. The exercises we did today gave me ideas for how to use some bible stories to illustrate issues of tensions and conflict... I love the way that drama and stories are so different to preaching and teaching, yet are powerful and can be very moving if they hit on things that are universal themes. If we relate to something in the story it can impact very deeply.