How to tell the truth with Dr. Adeola Enigbokan

​Even when the truth isn’t hopeful, the telling of it is.

​Andrea Gibson

​The last year has been filled with destabilizing developments, which seem to expose the fragility at the foundation of our everyday lives. We can take these exposures as opportunities to tell fuller truths about who we are, our relationships, and our world. At the same time, it seems that the work we do, the technologies we use and the very practice of communicating itself, all challenge our ability to say clearly what is really real for us.

​I think it might be time to go back to basics and re-learn (or learn for the first time) how and when to tell the truth. Telling the truth about who we are is a useful and necessary life skill that we can build in community, learning from each other, and from people who are better and more experienced at it than we are.

​In this one-hour session, I will introduce several narrative strategies adapted from some new classics of contemporary literature.

​If you are working on how to speak or write about yourself in a more authentic way, and if you like books and reading, this might be the session for you.

​Bio:

​Adeola Enigbokan is a storyteller and cultural worker. She was born on the traditional land of the first nations of Seattle, the Duwamish People, and was named eight days later in the sacred traditions of the Yoruba. She is here because of the generosity of the Duwamish Tribe, and of the land itself, which received her migrating family and provided them with necessary nourishment.

​Adeola works with individuals to shift their narratives of what is possible within their working lives, by deepening their love and connection to the places where they find themselves. She draws upon indigenous knowledges, especially about relation to place, movement and ritual to guide her work, practically, ethically and spiritually. She writes creative non/fiction, art and architecture criticism and produces lecture performances, workshops and public engagements.

​Adeola holds a PhD in Psychology from the City University of New York.