CHILDREN AS STORYTELLERS
Children provide a playful, un-auditioned embodiment of the story . This offers an opportunity for the audience to let down their guard and be caught off-guard by the story.
METAPHORS IN ART
Sacred Canopy resources recognize the power of visual symbols to move the audience beyond cognitive, either/or thinking into a unitive/paradoxical level of spiritual awareness.
LIMINAL SPACE
Sacred Canopy resources understand liminal space as the unseen dimension where Divine Presence is found – between stage and audience, teller and listener, longing and despair -and is considered essential part of how our stories are told. We recognize that children in the context of sacred space (church sanctuary etc) are uniquely gifted in leading an audience into liminal space.
STEWARDING THE TRADITION
Sacred Canopy stories are not originals. They have been stewarded and passed down from one generation to the next for millennia. Our work is to care for the heart of the story while at the same time making it relevant for the times in which we live.
ARCHETYPAL STORYLINES
Sacred Canopy resources approach the stories of the Bible as archetypes of the human experience. This is to say the stories of Adam & Eve, Abraham & Sarah, Noah, Moses, Miriam, Job, King David, Jesus, Mary and Paul are as much about ourselves as about them – who we are, our deepest struggles, our longing for wholeness and inclusion, and the pathway through suffering and loss that we are invited to walk.