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'Some insights of our human
heart are so deep that only a
story can help us bring them
home to ourselves and share
them with others.'

- Brother David.
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A room filled with sails and stories, inviting the visitor to ‘listen to the words of those they live and walk amongst’.
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On 28th June the installation opened and over 50 visitors travelled through, guided by the storytravelling team. The journey took visitors through a landscape of story, weaving and connection.

6 days earlier on a breezy day in June, the team of storytravellers had journeyed to the four corners of Devon to meet with people from EDP Drug and Alcohol Services. With generosity and humour those we interviewed shared stories of big decisions and important events, of small moments long forgotten, of times of despair and gratitude, of people who were there. Edited by the storytravelling team, their words are offered back as guidance, as stimulus to re-discovery of our own moments of challenge and change.
Find Your True North
Fix Your Gaze
Reaching Safe Harbours
Weather The Storm
Travel The Distance
Collaborating with the EDP community showed us that at our own strengths are huge, that challenges come to us all and that the depths of human kindness are vast.

A room filled with writing and weaving, where strangers and friends create a blanket woven together with words and connections.
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To weave is to make a complex patterns of stories from a number of interconnected elements.
Click through to read stories left by visitors to the installation and maybe leave your own...
A time when you didn’t know the right thing to do ...
A moment when time stood still …
A difficult time that resulted in an unlikely friendship...
A time when it was particularly difficult to make a decision...
A time when it was all worth it…
A time when you chose safety over happiness...
A time when you questioned if it was ok to be happy because of the circumstances around you …
A time when you were truly happy ….
A time when someone has made a difference to you …
A time when you put someone else’s happiness ahead of your own …
A time when someone else did something that made you feel valued or important …
A time when you missed an opportunity to make a difference to someone else…
A time when someone’s life story inspired you to make a change in your own life …
A time when someone else’s actions brought you joy…
A time when you made a decision that was different from those around you …
A time when you were stuck …

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One of the woven squares made during the installation is now on display at the EDP Drug and Alcohol Services main offices. 
Unless otherwise stated, all photos/words are the property of Patchwork Stories.
If you wish to use anything please contact a member of the Core Team.
Megan Alrutz
Fiona  Macbeth
Carina Ripley

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