My  Reflection –Storytelling by Om Islam    Challenge & Selection     Storytelling is a means for sharing and interpreting experiences. ... Storytelling can  be used as a method to teach ethics, values and cultural norms and differences.  Learning is most effective when it takes place in social environments that provide  authentic social cues about how knowledge is to be applied.    Story telling has been my choice because I work with people with special and huge  vulnerability status. I work with children if I can call it like this who went against  the law. I am helping in their correctional, changing behavior in order to  reintegrate their family and society in general. Many of these people deal with  cruelty and disfunction in every aspect of their lives, they need to be heard  corrected and helped in their daily life. Sometimes they are depressed in one and  other kind. I spend a lot of time “opening people up” and finding ways to inspire  them to improve their situations. They are lonely separated with their family and  friend and sometimes felt happy and in their way to get well in sharing their story.  They arrive to understand what they did wrong and ready to be corrected and be an  example to others. From other’s story they visualize a state of healing and process  of not recidivism on their life mistake.  With this experience I develop strategies to find a way of reintegrate those children  to the life they real deserve to have and gain back their home safely.     I was also explaining how sometimes addressing the needs of one individual can  impact everyone for the better, even if it seems extreme or out of the ordinary. I  told a story of 3 young children studying at recognized school but who did not  know that parents should give a small time which can be there to discuss with their  children. They got all thing than kid can desire but missed a lot in their life. In time  they went in boarding they decide to put fire in dormitory and judged and got 2  years in Correctional Services. They have been considered as criminal no one  wanted to talk to them.      Insight & Approach    As those children isolated themselves to other group, I took the opportunity to put  them in groups after lunch time and prepare them to an interesting story. I told

them how everyone is claimed to be innocent when he/she doesn’t understand well  the gravity of his action until s/he saw well their action. I told them how King  David took another’s wife and kill his husband in order to cover what he did. I  asked them was it good to do all that evil thing? I associated that story with my  own one. When I was at their age, I liked to have all attention to me. I was  somehow selfish and not considering other. I told them how I was miserable as I  wanted everything to be mine, not sharing with other. That lead me to be always  lonely hated by my sibling and realizing how other were united I promised myself  to change. I started to take care of other and that costed me a lot for them to believe  me. They followed attentively and at the end everyone said the was thinking those  children were like an evil himself and I showed them that everyone is there  because s/he did something wrong so there were no need to add on this and showed  that they have to take a time to remember of what they did in order to hate it and  not doing it again. At the time they start consider each and everyone as a brother  and a sister and every time they do have a different, they remember I told them to  be tolerated one another.      When I reported what happened to my superior, they were happy and told me to  elaborate a plan on how to have like a discussion twice a week with those children,  because of the positive impact telling story had on them. This course helped and  strengthened me a lot about this tool. Now I always have a time to put together  their stories, and customize them; to share with them and take a good decision  from what they have as an experience.    Another interesting thing comes from that story is now when parents come to visit  their incarcerated children, we give them a counsel to try to have a time to discuss  with their children as even if they can give them everything nothing cannot replace  the time they spent with their children.    From that time, I cannot miss any occasion to take and customize my story to reach  the heart of those children and the result is amazing.


My Reflection – Storytelling by Om Islam Challenge & Selection Storytelling is a means for sharing and interpreting experiences . ... Storytelling can be used as a method to teach ethics , values and cultural norms and differences . Learning is most effective when it takes place in social environments that provide authentic social cues about how knowledge is to be applied . Story telling has been my choice because I work with people with special and huge vulnerability status . I work with children if I can call it like this who went against the law . I am helping in their correctional , changing behavior in order to reintegrate their family and society in general . Many of these people deal with cruelty and disfunction in every aspect of their lives , they need to be heard corrected and helped in their daily life . Sometimes they are depressed in one and other kind . I spend a lot of time “ opening people up ” and finding ways to inspire them to improve their situations . They are lonely separated with their family and friend and sometimes felt happy and in their way to get well in sharing their story . They arrive to understand what they did wrong and ready to be corrected and be an example to others . From other ’s story they visualize a state of healing and process of not recidivism on their life mistake . With this experience I develop strategies to find a way of reintegrate those children to the life they real deserve to have and gain back their home safely . I was also explaining how sometimes addressing the needs of one individual can impact everyone for the better , even if it seems extreme or out of the ordinary . I told a story of 3 young children studying at recognized school but who did not know that parents should give a small time which can be there to discuss with their children . They got all thing than kid can desire but missed a lot in their life . In time they went in boarding they decide to put fire in dormitory and judged and got 2 years in Correctional Services . They have been considered as criminal no one wanted to talk to them . Insight & Approach As those children isolated themselves to other group , I took the opportunity to put them in groups after lunch time and prepare them to an interesting story . I told them how everyone is claimed to be innocent when he / she does n’t understand well the gravity of his action until s / he saw well their action . I told them how King David took another ’s wife and kill his husband in order to cover what he did . I asked them was it good to do all that evil thing ? I associated that story with my own one . When I was at their age , I liked to have all attention to me . I was somehow selfish and not considering other . I told them how I was miserable as I wanted everything to be mine , not sharing with other . That lead me to be always lonely hated by my sibling and realizing how other were united I promised myself to change . I started to take care of other and that costed me a lot for them to believe me . They followed attentively and at the end everyone said the was thinking those children were like an evil himself and I showed them that everyone is there because s / he did something wrong so there were no need to add on this and showed that they have to take a time to remember of what they did in order to hate it and not doing it again . At the time they start consider each and everyone as a brother and a sister and every time they do have a different , they remember I told them to be tolerated one another . When I reported what happened to my superior , they were happy and told me to elaborate a plan on how to have like a discussion twice a week with those children , because of the positive impact telling story had on them . This course helped and strengthened me a lot about this tool . Now I always have a time to put together their stories , and customize them ; to share with them and take a good decision from what they have as an experience . Another interesting thing comes from that story is now when parents come to visit their incarcerated children , we give them a counsel to try to have a time to discuss with their children as even if they can give them everything nothing can not replace the time they spent with their children . From that time , I can not miss any occasion to take and customize my story to reach the heart of those children and the result is amazing .