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Kyla Bayang's avatar

Wonderful talk that I will be rewatching, I lost myself in thought about one point, and missed the next. So much to unpack and ponder. Thank you Barbara for arranging this great talk and thank you Rhonda for, well, just being sweet you and sharing yourself with us. ❤️

Rhonda Lauritzen's avatar

Thank you so much for having me on for this topic, which is dear to my heart. The ProjectKin community is the best!

Barbara at Projectkin's avatar

Aw, thank you for your kind words about Projectkin. Truly we are one on this point.

Kathy Stone's avatar

This was an amazing session. Thank you Rhonda so much for sharing your wisdom on such a difficult topic with us, and to Barbara for arranging this. I so wanted to attend this session at RootsTech, but am not going in person - this was a gift from you both. I highly recommend everyone watch this session.

Rhonda Lauritzen's avatar

Thanks, Kathy! I was touched that you would make time to attend. Your comment is doubly kind. I am grateful for the Projectkin community having me on, because I think this topic is so important. It's the one thing that has the greatest likelihood of derailing someone's family storytelling, and this work is too important to let that happen.

Barbara at Projectkin's avatar

Thank you, Rhonda and Kathy. Indeed, once bitten twice shy: It's so sad to see people withdrawing from storytelling because they accidentally stepped into a "heffalump trap" 🐘 of misunderstandings the first time. This talk elevates the entire conversation to one that binds hearts and heals wounds. 🥰

Where were you when I wandered into my first confrontation? Whelp. It's a wonder I'm even here.

Rhonda Lauritzen's avatar

Oh man, same! This is the talk I WISH I'd had when I stepped into my first, second, and twentieth situation. Lessons learned from the trenches, for sure. These are also the questions that people stick around after in-person talks to ask, because they're stumped. Anyway, that was my motivation for doing a deep dive on learning best practices and teaching this.