The official book launch of The Sunday Story Club: The Book Club without books @ Readings Hawthorn. Great enthusiastic crowd. That’s me in the Hi-Vis shirt. Ha!
What is the hardest thing you’ve ever had to do?
We wrote The Sunday Story Club to show others how to facilitate good, authentic and vulnerable conversation. We live in an era when, even in a face-to-face conversation, the person opposite you may not be listening. You know what they are doing. They are scrolling through emails or text messages on their phone.
Sick of chitchat, we started our Sunday Story Club to encourage a deeper conversation. The results were so uplifting and moving we wanted to share both some of the stories and also how to run your own story salon so others can experience this magic too.
What we sense & What we fear.
Raw & Unfiltered: Why you must speak your truth!
In the Sunday Story Club, we ask questions that sidestep prepared narratives to open up a conversation in new and refreshing ways. We want readers to run their own Salons to experience these extraordinary conversations.
We all carry stories within us – wrenching, redemptive, extraordinary, and laced with unexpected and hard-won wisdom. A meaningful conversation has the power to enlighten, heal and transform.
When parenting becomes competitive, try a different conversation.
In the era of fake online personas, you need to talk.
The Sunday Story Club. We all carry stories within us – wrenching, redemptive, extraordinary, and laced with unexpected and hard-won wisdom.
Your curated online persona, be it funny, adventurous or fake, is not you. You need to talk.
This book reminds us of the power of conversation to enlighten, heal and transform.
You are not a screen. Why we need Face-to-Face Conversation
This is the blog that turned into a Salon that turned into a book called The Sunday Story Club.
We wrote the book to not only share some of the stories but to also show you how to run your own Salon.
LISTEN HERE: And interview with Cassie McCullogh, ABC, Sydney.
Sharing the Magic of Running A Salon
When we, Doris and Kerry, ran our first salon, 12 women who had not met before sat in Doris’s lounge room looking at one another. We wondered if strangers would talk. Well, they do with the right questions. Not only strangers but also long term friends have been amazed to hear stories told by someone so close to them that they have never heard before.
We wanted to share the astounding experience of the salon so we wrote THE SUNDAY STORY CLUB so others can discover this magic running their own salon.
There is a hunger out there for open and honest conversations!
My co-author Doris Brett & I were overwhelmed with the enthusiasm for our book THE SUNDAY STORY CLUB (PanMac), @The Happiness Conference in Sydney on Mon. There seems to be a hunger out there for open and honest conversations. This is one theme of the book, which we wrote as an antidote to all those FAKE online personas. (Yes! Irony alert! I’m online here.)
Not only do we share stories from our salon, we also show you how to run your own salon so you can benefit from deeper connections with others.
A Conversation with Wise Women
By Kerry Cue and Doris Brett
Last Sunday, we had another gathering of The Sibyls. Our Sibyls come from a variety of backgrounds, but all have open and curious minds. The conversation was vibrant and full of wise words, as always. We kicked things off with the ‘open’ question(above), and the answers showed how diverse, thoughtful and mischievous the Sibyls can be. Here is a small selection of God’s imagined response to a Sibyl at the Gate:
*What took you so long?
*You are a good person,. You made a difference. You lived a good life.
*Welcome.
*That surprised you?
*The job’s yours!
*Don’t worry, you don’t have to catch up with all of your relatives!
Thanks to Sibyls Viv I, Donna, Celia, Eva, Margot, Carol, Di, Viv II and Jenny. Photo source: pinterest
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