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The Importance of Stories

Duane Hollow Horn Bear
Transcript

Learn ABOUT
(deep listening, information)

  1. How does creation need me?
  2. How can stories help me to understand?
  3. What are the virtues?
  4. What does it mean to “carry a song”?
  5. What’s the connection between stories and songs?
  6. How is seeing life as a circle different than seeing things as a line?
  7. How much do unborn children know about their surroundings outside the womb?
  8. What are the Lakota stages of growth in the life of a person?
  9. Do all eagles practice this mate selection process?
  10. How do you know which stories have important meaning for you?
  11. How do you listen to criticism without taking it into your heart?
  12. Why does it sometimes take so many hearings of a story before we can understand it?

Learn FROM
(deep listening, transformation)

  1. What are my beliefs concerning the creation and existence of the world and the universe?
  2. What stories have been important to my own growth?
  3. What are the virtues that were promoted as I was growing up?
  4. What songs have been important in shaping who I am?
  5. How might it be helpful to see life as a cycle rather than a timeline? Can it be both? How might both ways of seeing behelpful?
  6. What are my earliest memories? How do they impact me today?
  7. Are there stages that I have gone through in my life? What are they?
  8. What’s the lesson for me in the eagle story?
  9. What’s important to me in choosing or selecting a spouse or a partner or even a friend?
  10. Do I deal with criticism well? Do I learn from criticism? What kind of feedback helps me most?
  11. Are there stories that have changed in their meaning as I have grown older? What are they? What has caused them to change?