OUR STORY
Your Life Your Story is a small charity managed by a group of five director/trustees who are care experienced adults, care givers or both.
To raise funds for our annual residential event which brings care experienced adults and caregivers together to learn the techniques of storytelling through creativity and the arts, we perform at conferences, exhibitions and events, deliver training to students and professionals, facilitate creative workshops for all vulnerable groups and work with children to explore their story through creativity and the arts.
The Phoenix
In times of doubt and confusion the phoenix symbolises strength, transformation and renewal. For only from the ashes of who we were, can we rise up to become who we’re to be.
This inspirational artwork has been donated to Your Life Your Story by artists Saira-Jayne Jones and Yusuf Paul McCormack known collectively as ‘Artifacts’ who facilitated a creative workshop at Your Life Your Story 2019.
Our task was to make the branches of our ‘Positivtree’
We were instructed to take four luggage labels and to think about two negative words used by others to describe us and two positive words and to write each word on the labels selected. On completion we were invited to take the labels bearing negative words and shred them in the paper shredder provided. The labels with the two positive words we had written became the leaves on our branch of the ‘positivitree’ which we decorated in colourful ribbons and trinkets.
What we didn’t know…
The labels bearing the negative names we had shredded at the end of the workshop were to be carefully constructed to create this amazing picture of the phoenix rising from the book. It captures the very essence of Your Life Your Story.
Unleashing the power of relationships and the untold story