Category Archives: Narrative Mapping,

We are thrilled to announce that on May 18th, at the AmeriCorps Training Conference in Burlington VT, Storywise will launch a new book inspired by our AmeriCorps members, and prompted by the pandemic challenge and how it changed our years … Continue reading →

Times are tough for a lot of people.  COVID did not cause the cracks in our social edifice of care but has exposed and widened them to make them more cruelly visible. Never before has everyone had to battle the … Continue reading →

Imagine being a sociologist and wanting to conduct a mass experiment on the impact of isolation and loneliness on community health. Imagine that you wanted to shut down the whole system of normal human interaction- jobs, churches, synagogues, schools, colleges, … Continue reading →

ON TURNING 10 Poet Lureate Billy Collins wrote one of my all time favorite poems called “On Turning Ten” that begins with The whole idea of it makes me feel like I’m coming down with something, and ends with It … Continue reading →

10 Apr 2013 11:42 AM from Tipperary LIVE The sudden death of a young South Tipperary woman who was becoming a leading figure in world human rights affairs has stunned her family and friends in Ireland and abroad. The sudden … Continue reading →

When 9-11 happened, our leaders decided that the easiest explanation was that these attackers were Muslim fanatics, that they came from a heart of darkness and that they acted out of gratuitous hatred for everything that America and the West … Continue reading →

Marx once said that history repeats itself, first as tragedy and later as farce. If only? Modern consciousness seems to have decided that if history returns, it returns mostly as trauma, and this trauma treats the corrosive affects of history … Continue reading →

Let us all give thanks for this precious something that we all count ourselves to be, knowing that all of us started from nothing. Once upon a time, before we were born, there was no hint that we might ever … Continue reading →

Paul Costello In July 2000, CNS was invited to teach at a special summer school in Tashkent, capital of the former Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan.  Conducted in Russian for a group of philosophers and teachers from Russia, Ukraine, Mongolia, Georgia … Continue reading →

9-11 and 20 years on: act with haste, repent at leisure We are coming up to 20 years since 9-11. President Biden wanted to time the pull-out from Afghanistan to remind us of that. What he did not intend, I … Continue reading →