‘But what about those of us who may not have experienced that tradition of family storytelling? How can we replicate that experience to recognize our heritage of connection, strength, and resilience? We can reframe “family storytelling” as storytelling in our communities and identify important transferable processes of:

• defining a shared connection to the past
• exploring the reality of multiple perspectives on one event with no one version containing a complete truth
• creating and testing explanations through multiple retellings
• identifying resilience -- our shared ups and downs (the oscillatory story)

The value lies in the process of storytelling. Robyn Fivush