Current and Upcoming Clients -
The Alois Alzheimer Center - Four week Writing Circle
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History/Mission
Found Voices was established with the mission of evoking and exploring the human goodness in an individual through the use of writings and recordings for the sake of perpetuity. Our clients are those in a position of needing someone to give voice to their lives. Writing and Audio are powerful tools to share with loved ones, in particular, if one has been physically changed, their voice, whether written or spoken, remains with us the same way one carries a melody in our hearts or heads.
The How To
Together with our clients, we intend to create written or spoken conversations around the moments in their lives – moments of loss, love, change, physical, mental or spiritual. We will use various sources of material to evoke these stories, such as Margaret Wheatley – Turning to One Another, A Simpler Way, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, David White, the words of poets and everyday people to begin conversations in the same way writing prompts elicit memories both buried and recent.
The questions/prompts are not meant to be explored in linear fashion, as our lives are moments made up by the sum of our parts, each part coming to light at different times in our lives.
Audience
Older, active adults. Hospice patients. Clients in long-term care facilities. Others with an interest in preserving their memories or capturing a defining moment in their lives.
Non-profits – schools, arts organizations looking to capture their history, event or mission.
Sample Questions
- What is your hope for the future of our culture, our world, your city, your family?
- Using the I am From prompt, create a poem of 10 lines to reflect this sentiment.
- What is something special you will leave behind?
- In your twenties, thirties, what did you intend to become? How is that different from now? At what point in your journey did that change from what you intended to become, to who you intended to become?
- Describe a self-portrait – Using the David White poem for prompt
- What were you willing to bear witness to? To be brave enough to sit with human suffering? (Wheatley – Turning to One Another)
- When in your past have you felt healed? How did you carry this forward?
- What is/was your relationship with the earth? What lessons have you learned from that?
- What has been your unique contribution to the whole?
- Through complementary texts and illustrations in the Book of Ruth, Joan Chittister and Swanson explore a series of twelve defining moments in every life--moments of loss, change, transformation, aging, independence, respect, recognition, insight, empowerment, self-definition, invisibility, and fulfillment. What moments were most memorable and why?
- When did you experience leadership, being a leader, in what way?
- When did you experience the sacred?
“What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of a human being. To feed the hungry. To help the afflicted. To light the sorrow of the sorrowful. To remove the wrongs of the injured… The Prophet Muhammad.
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