World Mother Storytelling Project: Evolving Humanity Through Mother Storytelling, Awakening our Deep Connection to All Living Beings.

The World Mother Storytelling Project is a global storytelling and arts initiative dedicated to surfacing and preserving the untold stories of mothers. Rooted in the Narativ listening and storytelling method—originally developed during the AIDS epidemic to help terminal patients leave their legacies—the project transforms communities through live performance, participatory public art, education, and large-scale social impact programs. By teaching deep listening and storytelling, it fosters empathy, heals intergenerational trauma, and strengthens emotional intelligence. Centered on the interconnectedness of mothers' and children’s narratives, it offers a powerful vision of how these stories shape societies. At its core, the project ensures that the wisdom of mothers is honored, understood, and woven into our collective history. Because the theme of motherhood is universal, the project also serves as a lens to address pressing social issues, including gender-based violence, displacement, discrimination, and other vulnerabilities. Its deep sensitivity to context and perspective allows it to engage with these challenges in a profound way.

Through the World Mother Storytelling Project, I have been contemplating an alternative future—one that recognizes our fundamental longing for connection, belonging, and a shared humanity.