by Shannon Turner | Sep 29, 2022 | advocacy, Blog, empathy, GCDD Storytelling Project, manifesting stories, transformative storytelling
Some people will talk about community advocacy work as “empowering,” or even that they are “giving voice to the voiceless.” I like to think that every person I work with–every kind of person I work with–has their own power, their own voice.
by Shannon Turner | Jul 13, 2022 | Blog, manifesting stories, personal narrative, self-image, transformative storytelling
There are some stories, and Shannon the Underdog Atlanta Online Dating Girl was one of them, that become a stuck/repeating tape loop. When I first moved to Atlanta in 2008, I threw myself headlong into the newly ubiquitous (read: now-not-so-skeevy) online dating...
by Shannon Turner | May 22, 2022 | #ShannonGoesToIreland, Blog, manifesting stories, personal narrative, walks with grief
People travel all the time. Maybe less so these days, but it’s just something that happens a lot, for personal and professional reasons. Can’t tell you how many times I see on dating profiles that a potential partner will judge you as unqualified if you don’t have enough passport stamps.
by Shannon Turner | Mar 20, 2022 | Blog, camp stories, change, empathy, personal is political, transformative storytelling
There once was an island made up of seven kingdoms, evenly divided by high rock walls that emanated from the center of the island and ran all the way to the sea (kinda like a giant Trivial Pursuit piece). Unfortunately, there was no source of fresh drinking water on the island. Each kingdom hated and feared the next.
by Shannon Turner | Jan 25, 2022 | Blog, personal narrative, transformative storytelling, trauma, vulnerability, walks with grief
Despite all that, my most visceral memory from that year will always be sitting in a car on a cold, rainy, fall afternoon with the mother of one of the shooting victims. We formed a friendship during that season and had gone out to a local school to talk about resilience. When we got back in the car to leave, she checked her voicemail, had gotten a call from her son who was refusing to go to school. Again
by Shannon Turner | Sep 2, 2021 | Blog
Two nights before we wrapped Treasure Maps, I was sitting on my front porch on a sweltering summer evening, looking at my overgrown yard, thinking about what it would be like when life wasn’t quite so busy again. Given that it had been such a large and ideal...