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Acknowledgement. I, _____________________________________________

(print name), attest and acknowledge that I have been advised of the probable consequences, outcomes and/or effects of my participation in this research project entitled Storytelling as a Pastoral Care Intervention that Ministers Healing to Adult Parishioners of St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church in Canton, Georgia Who Have Experienced Violence. I hereby acknowledge that I have been advised that Rev.

Lemora B. Dobbs, any and all research assistants, successors, assigns, and/or designees, individually and severally, are required by law to immediately report to the appropriate legal authorities any information shared during the course of my participation in the project that discloses past or present criminal behavior perpetrated by me, others, and/or perpetrated by anyone against me or others. I also acknowledge that any verbiage, action or behavior that indicates I might pose a threat to myself or others will be taken seriously by any and all researchers, successors, assigns, and/or designees, individually and

severally, and such verbiage, action or behavior will be reported immediately to appropriate legal authorities.

Consent. I, ______________________________________ (print name), hereby consent to participation in the Doctor of Ministry research project conducted by Rev.

Lemora B. Dobbs, Student at Gardner-Webb University entitled Storytelling as a Pastoral Care Intervention that Ministers Healing to Adult Parishioners of St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church in Canton, Georgia Who Have Experienced Violence. I give permission for information shared by me in workshops and sessions pertaining to the study to be used by the researcher and included in any printed and/or published materials associated with said research project. I understand that information shared during the course of this project that is printed will be read by persons that are directly, indirectly, or not at all associated with this study. I further consent that personal information shared in sessions or workshops pertaining to this study may be used

anonymously for research purposes. By affixing my signature hereto, I attest that any information shared in any workshops or sessions of this project in which I participate may be used anonymously in subsequent publications, workshops, seminars, and/or shared in person and/or electronically with the public at large. I give consent that

information shared in all sessions and/or workshops pertaining to this study may be used in reporting the research findings and further understand that my real name will be disguised whenever the information shared in these interviews is shared with others in any of the aforementioned methods.

Waiver. As a participant in the research project entitled Storytelling as a Pastoral Care Intervention that Ministers Healing to Adult Parishioners of St. Paul African

Methodist Episcopal Church in Canton, Georgia Who Have Experienced Violence, I, ________________________________________________ (print name), hereby agree to hold release and hold harmless Rev. Lemora B. Dobbs, St. Paul AME Church-Canton,

Inc., The African Methodist Episcopal Church, Inc., Gardner-Webb University, and any and all of their successors, assigns, designees, and/or any other persons associated with any of said entities whether named, unnamed, and/or implied directly and/or indirectly through this research project harmless from any damages and/or injuries physical or otherwise that may arise from my participation in this research project. I understand that in the future information shared by me in any of the sessions and/or workshops included in or pertaining to this study may appear anonymously in published and/or printed materials and may also be shared anonymously with church congregations and/or the public at large either verbally or in written form. I hereby waive my right to pursue any of the aforementioned parties and any of their successors, assigns, designees, and/or any other persons associated with any of said entities whether named, unnamed, and/or implied directly and/or indirectly, through any legal course of action that may arise by my participation in this research project.

This _____ day of ______________________________, 20__.

Witness: Research Participant:

_______________________________ ______________________________

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WORKSHOP #1 – INTRODUCTION TO PROJECT AND STORYTELLING

Researcher: Rev. Lemora B. Dobbs, Doctor of Ministry Student Gardner-Webb University, Boiling Springs, NC

July 13, 2017 Project Title:

Storytelling as a Pastoral Care Intervention that Ministers Healing to Adult Parishioners of St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church in Canton,

Georgia Who Have Experienced Violence

Welcome/Greeting/Acknowledgements

Opening Prayer/Blessing of the Food/Dinner is Served Statement of Voluntary Nature of Project

Administer Research Group Pre-Interview Survey Project Overview

This project will teach, model, and test the healing power of storytelling as a pastoral care intervention with persons who have been violence victims. The project will also lay the groundwork for future work that explores the use storytelling and its effectiveness in ministering healing to various segments of the general population. The project will consist of five (5) forty-five minute to one-hour workshops:

Workshop #1 – Introduction to Project and Storytelling.

Workshop #2 – Biblical and Theological Implications of Storytelling Workshop #3 – Stories of Violence in our World (Video and/or film clip) Workshop #4 – Group Process and the Experience of Storytelling

Sharing identified common themes and portions of personal stories (per participants’ discretion)

Workshop #5 – Collaborative Brainstorming and Planning

Between Workshops #3 and #4, Researcher will conduct individual, personal interviews with Research Group participants. After conducting said individual sessions, Researcher will identify common themes that will be discussed and explored in Workshop #4.

Research Group participants will decide at their own discretion how much or how little personal information they would like to share with others in the group. Research Group participation will conclude with a brainstorming session in which ideas are shared on how the church might be helpful to persons in the church and/or community who have experienced violence.

Question and Answer Session Schedule Remaining Workshops

Administer Group Confidentiality Consent Reading of Debriefing Statement

Administer Workshop Evaluation Closing Prayer

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WORKSHOP #2 – BIBLICAL AND THEOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF STORYTELLING

Researcher: Rev. Lemora B. Dobbs, Doctor of Ministry Student Gardner-Webb University, Boiling Springs, NC

July 20, 2017 Project Title:

Storytelling as a Pastoral Care Intervention that Ministers Healing to Adult Parishioners of St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church in Canton, Georgia Who

Have Experienced Violence

Welcome/Opening Prayer/Blessing of the Food

Beginning Statement regarding Voluntary Nature of Participation in the Research Project

Storytelling Warm Up

Quotation: “We all have stories. We just lack listeners.” (Jackie Sullivan as quoted in John C. Karl, “Caring for the Stories that Come to Us: Work Narratives and Their Sacred Promise.” The Journal of Pastoral Care and Counseling, Volume 56, Number 1, Spring 2002, 29-40.)

Brainstorming

Biblical and Theological Implications of Two Bible Stories (small group exercise) Group #1: The Passover (Exodus 12:1-42, emphasis vv. 24-28)

Group #2: The Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37)

• Story aspects

• Immersing ourselves in the text

• Intersections (in what way(s) does the story speak to you and your life?)

• In what ways does immersing yourself in the text and/or examining intersections between your story and the biblical story shape your view of yourself, others, and God/

• Reauthoring/reframing the story (if you could change something about this story, what would that be?)

Dr. Edward P. Wimberly posits that one of the most significant ways of doing pastoral counseling is to provide persons with a forum for exploring their stories within a biblical framework in which re-authoring or reframing can take place. (“Pastoral Counseling with African American Males,” The Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center, Volume 21, Numbers 1-2, Fall-Spring 1993-1994, 127-144.)

Closing Comments

Debriefing Statement

Workshop #2 Evaluation & Closing Prayer

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WORKSHOP #3 – EXPERIENCES OF VIOLENCE IN OUR WORLD Researcher: Rev. Lemora B. Dobbs, Doctor of Ministry Student

Gardner-Webb University, Boiling Springs, NC July 20, 2017

Project Title:

Storytelling as a Pastoral Care Intervention that Ministers Healing to Adult Parishioners of St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church in Canton, Georgia Who

Have Experienced Violence

Welcome & Opening Prayer

Statement of Voluntary Nature of Participation in the Research Project Word Association Warm Up

Experience of Violence Videos (view at least three):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKezTT7qvwY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia0w_dOj7R4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpGxagKOkv8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxBcCSaBtXc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93XhgC_1zes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM6MNRPVMCo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdgkARxgjxA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgK8e0BOnzg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cz0hOMODvk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqwkdDaz-jk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL3kz5g2Mkw

Small Group Discussion Sharing with Large Group Debriefing Statement Workshop Evaluations

Prayer Requests and Closing Prayer

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WORKSHOP #4 – GROUP PROCESS AND STORYTELLING Researcher: Rev. Lemora B. Dobbs, Doctor of Ministry Student

Gardner-Webb University, Boiling Springs, NC August 10, 2017

Project Title:

Storytelling as a Pastoral Care Intervention that Ministers Healing to Adult Parishioners of St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church in Canton, Georgia Who

Have Experienced Violence

Welcome, Opening Prayer & Blessing of the Food

Statement of Voluntary Nature of Participation in the Research Project Consent, Acknowledgement and Waiver

▪ Relatives against other relatives o Verbal abuse

▪ Parent against parent

▪ Spousal

▪ Siblings as perpetrators

▪ Relatives against other relatives o Emotional abuse

▪ Parent against parent

▪ Spousal

▪ Siblings as perpetrators

▪ Relatives against other relatives

• Neighborhood Violence o Involving relatives

▪ Siblings as perpetrators or victims

▪ Other relatives as perpetrators or victims

o Involving unknown persons as perpetrators and/or victims o Racial violence

• Workplace Violence o Physical

o Verbal and/or emotional

Effects

• Humiliation

• Privacy

• Lack of trust

• Anger

• Self-worth/self esteem

• Depression Coping Mechanisms:

• Internalization o Illnesses

o Mental frame of reference

• Ignoring perpetrators

• Forgiveness

• Humor

• Removing selves from situations Wrap-Up

Debriefing Statement Evaluation

Closing Prayer

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WORKSHOP #5 – COLLABORATIVE BRAINSTORMING AND PLANNING Researcher: Rev. Lemora B. Dobbs, Doctor of Ministry Student

Gardner-Webb University, Boiling Springs, NC August 17, 2017

Project Title:

Storytelling as a Pastoral Care Intervention that Ministers Healing to Adult Parishioners of St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church in Canton, Georgia Who

Have Experienced Violence

Welcome, Opening Prayer & Blessing of the Food

Statement of Voluntary Nature of Participation in the Research Project Group Discussion

• Benefits/Pitfalls of participation in the Project

• What we learned about ourselves

• What we learned about others

• What we learned about storytelling as healing to persons who have experienced violence

Brainstorming

• How can the church help those who are violence victims?

o Inside the church o Outside the church

• Envision a model(s) the church can use to minister to persons who have

experienced violence. In other words, if you were serving on the committee that was in charge of planning a workshop at the church for the purpose of bringing healing to persons who have experienced violence, what would that workshop look like?

• Open Comments Expressions of Gratitude Debriefing Statement

Evaluation for Workshop #5

Post-Test for Research Participants Closing Prayer

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STATEMENT OF VOLUNTARY NATURE OF PROJECT PARTICIPATION