The stories our mothers tell us are not simply intimate personal testimony, but often reveal the way in which mothers are at the center of some of the most challenging issues of our day: women’s health and medical care, economic inequality, climate change, gun violence, political power, and more inclusive concepts of gender.

For too long, women’s stories have been written out of the historical record, depriving the world of a vital source needed in the search for meaningful solutions to global crises, as well as social and spiritual challenges. 

Family planning and girls’ education, for example, are two of the top potential solutions to global warming. Climate change disproportionately affects poor, rural and indigenous women as food shortages, droughts, floods and disease attack their ability to protect and nourish their children. 

These, and many other issues, are embedded in the stories mothers can share, if they believe how important it is for us to hear them, and learn from them.

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The World Mother Storytelling Project is based on the acclaimed Narativ listening and storytelling method, which has been honed across decades of work on multiple continents. This method enhances emotional intelligence by developing empathy, compassion and connectedness. By teaching sons/daughters/offspring this methodology, we have witnessed relationships transform - strengthening the bond, all while offering the tools to carry on mothers' legacies through re-telling their stories.