"Telling The Untold Stories"
- Abbie VanMeter
- May 14
- 2 min read
I'm starting to believe that the greatest gift we can offer to each other is our story- our honest, messy, real story... What do you think about that? Can you articulate how it feels for you to be heard when you share stories of your own? What is it like for someone else to trust you with their stories?
Obviously, with a podcast by the name of "Stories Lived. Stories Told." I've always been "pro-story," but especially recently, in the podcast episodes I have recorded (some of which are out already and some not yet), I have felt a renewed appreciation for the power of stories to connect us, to make seemingly abstract things feel very real, and to generate more stories.
I learn so much in the stories of others- about the storyteller and about myself as well.
In the latest SLST episode, I am honored to share with you the stories shared with me by Pedro Martins. Pedro is a Brazilian psychologist. He is interested in the practice of therapy as social construction in different contexts, and his main goal is to create generative conversational resources that bridge academic and practical knowledge.
As Pedro notes in this episode, some environments make us feel more inclined (or obligated even) to tell the stories where we achieve great success, get everything right, or look really good... but, what happens when we share the stories where we messed up, or learned something, or truly just "failed"? What can that create?
I invite you- whether you are in Pedro's field of psychotherapy or not- to join this conversation with Pedro Martins as we explore the power of telling the untold stories, recognizing the co-creative nature of meaning, and moving from a focus on outcome to process in Pedro’s field of psychology and beyond.
I was connected with Pedro by a former conversation partner of the podcast and one of Pedro's co-authors, Sheila McNamee, so that we could build on the foundation of her conversation (Ep. 128) and dive deeper into the practice of social construction. (You can read more about Pedro's work at the The Taos Institute site- https://www.taosinstitute.net/about-us/people/institute-associates/mexico-caribbean-central-south-america/brazil/pedro-p-s-martins)
I hope you'll give this episode a listen and join the conversation by commenting!
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