Center for Story Culture---an incubator for storytellers that weaves decolonial cultural healing in service of creating story interventions that return us to re-memory, to circular histories and away from cradle-to-grave linear antropocentric apocalypse. Instead of fetishizing futurism as a site of liberation, a prevailing trend in movement and social justice space, our work privileges historical recuperation to steward powerful presentism. Being present, informed by the histories that propelled and grounded that present, a new future flows from powerful presencing. 

Here at the Center for Story Culture are crafting a storytelling ecosystem that is rooted in ancient wisdom and indigenous storytelling technologies, with a focus on decolonial and cultural healing story-gathering, sharing, and telling practices. The future goal is to create  a lab to incubate cultural healing storytellers, training them in critical media literacy, decolonial storytelling and sharing practices, ancient wisdom technologies, cultural healing modalities, and creative media work. 

Storytelling can heal ruptures of trauma: in narrating, you can reclaim your voice and at the same time, anoint witnesses (in my theoretical framework, wit/h/nesses). At the Center for Story Culture, we do not simply share decolonial storytelling attuned to ancestral wisdom, we root in the practice and promise of story-gifting.