Goals, Workshop 10: Photos And Stories: Representing Ourselves
In "Families," a Tapestry of Faith program
−Participants will:
- Value each individual's perspective as an interpreter of our world and as a teller of our stories
- Build and foster the ability to understand multiple perspectives
- Develop the ethics of care and responsibility through the intimate and ethical process of representing others
- Engage in the shared ministry of focusing—literally and figuratively—on the faces and narratives of congregation members
- Grow and deepen their naturally compassionate souls
- Engage joyfully in the creation of art
- Learn more fully that there is no "objective" point of view
- Learn how the fundamentals of photography translate to our way of living and interpreting the world more generally
- Engage as leaders of a project that serves the greater congregation and affirms more deeply their place in interdependent, multigenerational, congregational life
- Collaborate with peers
- Experience the roles of photographer/artist and storyteller—visual and/or text—within a faith community
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Last updated on Thursday, October 27, 2011.
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