Share Your Service: A Storytelling Workshop
One of the most compelling and heartfelt ways to share your Peace Corps experience is through stories. Storytelling can also be an excellent way to facilitate empathetic learning and community dialog. When Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs) tell stories, they humanize and illuminate places and people with that unique, grassroots, Peace Corps perspective. By telling yours, you simultaneously continue your service, demonstrate your dedication to social justice, and renew your commitment to the Peace Corps’ Third Goal.
Join Peace Corps’ Third Goal Program Specialist Meleia Egger (RPCV Malawi 2007-09) and co-founders of the new NPCA affiliate group, “Share Your Service,” Molly Fessler and Daniel Grant (both RPCVs Belize 2014-16) for their interactive workshop at Peace Corps Connect. In a short time, you’ll learn how to find, craft, and share your Peace Corps stories in engaging and vibrant ways ...and you'll connect with a network of RPCVs committed to doing the same.
About Share Your Service
Share Your Service (SYS) aims to empower RPCVs, and particularly millennial RPCVs, to develop their stories from service and turn them into narratives to use in 3rd Goal presentations that address pertinent cultural and social justice issues.
Vision: Bridge the cultural and social divides between Americans through the practice of strategic, social justice storytelling.
Mission: Share Your Service helps RPCVs turn their stories from service into narrative tools for social justice at home.
Goals:
- Empower: Marrying regional RPCV networks with other components of RPCV individual lives, SYS will create a team of action-oriented RPCVs who build upon their existing personal networks to increase compassion, broaden worldviews, and enhance community service projects.
- Connect: Presented with concrete actions and deliverables, RPCVs will be called to activism and service as they were during training.
- Share: Using a narrative based approach to restorative justice, RPCVs will build off of 3rd Goal activities to educate Americans about myriad parallels between challenges abroad and those in our own communities.
- Listen: Through trainings and community, RPCVs will act as a support system and hold one another accountable to standing up to systems and moments of injustice.
For more info, contact Molly Fessler: shareyourservicestory@gmail.com.
