Community

Identity-rooted, healing-informed storytelling experiences

The Story Doc offers healing-informed, identity-rooted storytelling experiences for community groups, libraries, and cultural organizations. These offerings invite participants into guided reflection through story, supporting grounding and meaning-making.

Through facilitated story circles and workshops, this work centers memory, lived experience, and personal insight as resources for care and understanding. Sessions are intentionally paced and centered on thoughtful reflection.

Community offerings include:

Workshops

Community workshops offer healing-centered, identity-focused learning spaces that blend reflection, story, and practical grounding tools.

Workshop themes may include:

  • Identity, belonging, and self-understanding

  • Story, memory, and cultural grounding

  • Navigating stress, change, and life transitions

  • Care, resilience, and collective reflection

Formats:
90-minute or half-day sessions. Virtual or in-person

Workshops can be offered as one-time events or short series in partnership with community organizations.

Story Circles

Story circles are the foundation of community work through The Story Doc.

These are facilitated small-group gatherings that use guided prompts and reflection to support:

  • Grounding and emotional presence

  • Deep reflection

  • Connection and mutual recognition

Formats:
Sessions can be virtual or in person and run for 60 or 90 minutes.

Story circles are well-suited for community organizations, cultural spaces, libraries, parent groups, and women-centered gatherings.

Schools

The Story Doc partners with schools and districts to provide identity-rooted, trauma-informed storytelling and professional learning experiences for students, educators, and families. Offerings align with social-emotional learning goals and support emotional regulation, reflection, and connection through facilitated story circles, workshops, classroom-based sessions, and in-school residencies.

This work supports reflective practice, emotional awareness, and connection across school communities.

Professional Development (PD)

These sessions create space for educators to pause, reflect, and reconnect to purpose while gaining practical, usable tools.

PD experiences may focus on:

  • Story as regulation and resilience

  • Supporting students during times of stress

  • Identity, belonging, and culturally responsive practice

  • Burnout, meaning, and sustainable care for educators

Format:

  • 90-minute sessions

  • Half- day PD

  • Full- day PD

  • Virtual or in-person

School offerings include:

Student & Family Story Work

In addition to educator professional development, The Story Doc offers story circles and workshops for students and families, designed to align with ECFE (Early Childhood Family Education) programming as well as classroom-based social-emotional learning experiences.

These offerings support family connection, student voice, and reflective learning, and can be adapted for parent-only, child-only, parent–child, or classroom-based formats in collaboration with educators and ECFE coordinators.

Offerings may include:

  • Identity-aware story circles facilitated in classrooms, ECFE settings, or small groups

  • Guided reflection, writing, or age-appropriate storytelling activities

  • SEL-aligned, trauma-informed practices that support emotional regulation and connection

Format:

  • ECFE sessions

  • Classrooms

  • Small groups

  • 60 minutes

  • 90 minutes

  • Virtual or in-person

In-School Residencies

Trauma-informed, cohesive engagement

In-school residencies offer schools a deeper, more cohesive experience of The Story Doc’s story-based work, allowing reflection and connection to build across multiple sessions.

Residencies integrate smoothly into existing school schedules and are facilitated in collaboration with school staff.

Residency structure

  • One-day residencies

  • 2–3 day residencies

Residency experiences may include:

  • Classroom-based story circles

  • Small-group or grade-level workshops

  • Educator professional learning sessions

“Every story shared becomes a seed—shaping who we are and who we can become.”

~Dr. Basima Mohamed, The Story Doc