1. 1 Session 5 Story Circles

2. 2 Story Circles can be used:  To provide a safe & women friendly space  For sharing information  For gathering information  As healing spaces  To validate experiences  For emotional support and befriending

3. 3 Supporting Story Circles Key things to consider:  Creating a safe and women friendly space  Verbal / non- verbal communication  Formulation of strategies to care for each other during and after the exercise  Dealing with the issues that come out of the stories  Not forcing anyone to join or speak

4. 4  Ongoing support strategies and befriending  Peer support/worker debriefing.  Respecting women’s choices, even if you don’t agree with the women’s choices.  Recognize that women’s responses and choices are also informed by their own cultural beliefs and values. Supporting Story Circles

5. 5 SharingStories  Sharing women & girls stories of the tsunami.  Stories of risk and violence and stories of survival  Our stories and the stories of others  Ways we can support one another and celebrate our strengths