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TRANSCRIPT : Ashley : My name is Ashley Hart and our family did the growing Christmas tree in Goshen project. Katie : Alright so you worked on getting to know your neighbors last year through this project? And talk me through that year, what did it look like, what did it take for you guys to put all that together? Ashley : Well it started off with me getting really excited about creating something...

EPISODE TRANSCRIPT: 1:11 - 2:31 Carole : My name is Carole and I’m passionate about Japanese fashion and hopefully bringing it into community. Katie Anderson: My name is Katie, I am passionately working at this point to build community around fashion with Carole. Katie B: So fashion but particularly Japanese fashion? Carole: Mhm. Katie B: Tell me what type of Japanese fashion? Carole: It’s Lolita....

Download the Pocketbook Guide: https://www.starfirecincy.org/guidebook TRANSCRIPT: Katie: Yeah so pivoting a little bit I’d like to talk about this idea that for people with disabilities especially because that’s what we care a lot about at Starfire, that this connection to social services usually means a disconnection from community life. That it means a person getting kind of pulled off the path...

John McKnight has spent a lifetime dedicated to the common good. He’s a Korean War veteran, who worked under John F Kennedy to create the affirmative action program, he was the Director of the Midwest office of the United States Commission on Civil Rights before leaving the government to work in communities. Among his many works, he is the author of The Careless Society – a critique of professiona...

  Kathleen shares her story about her families’ belief in a life with big possibilities and dreams - and not being defined by disability.   Live Storytelling: Believing in a Different Story | with Kathleen Cail StarfireCincy   TRANSCRIPT : When Grace was born she was born with some issues, we didn’t know right away it took a few months. But for some reason my husband and I...

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TRANSCRIPT: 0:00 – 0:44 Bridget : I’m Bridget Vogt and I have worked at Starfire for twenty years in a variety of ways. Katie : That’s two decades. So that’s a long time. What has been all the variety of ways? Bridget : When I first started it was just office help and doing the outings that we had during the evening and weekends. You know a few years after that we started a day program so I starte...

Scott : One of Kyle’s big interests is birds. So what we did was created a birding weekend, and invited a bunch of guests who were connected with the Audubon Society, Cincinnati chapter, Cincinnati Bird Club. People along that line those who share the same interest in birding as Kyle does. Katie : Yeah and this interest in birding is more than just - I like to be outside and in the woods, right? T...

TRANSCRIPTION 0:00 – 1:00 Mieke: You’re never ready. There are some things you just can’t predict everything. You can’t know the end from the beginning. You just have to trust that it’s ok to not know what you’re doing and get started at the same time. Katie: What if there were a bigger story than disability? You’re listening to More conversations at the center of the movement to build connection...

David T. Hsu is author of “Untethered: A Primer on Social Isolation” [ www.readuntethered.com ] and Head of Business Innovation at the Hollywood-based social impact agency Propper Daley. Trained as a political scientist, he leverages expertise in culture change and systems change to advise leaders across philanthropy, business, and entertainment. David previously worked in strategy and communicati...

These are real stories, told live, around the theme of “awakening.” Find the full transcript here: https://www.starfirecincy.org/cincibility/2019/4/25/carol-storyteller

These are real stories, told live, around the theme of “awakening.” Find the full transcript here: https://www.starfirecincy.org/cincibility/seanbarnes

These are real stories, told live, around the theme of “awakening.” Find the full transcript here: https://www.starfirecincy.org/cincibility/04-09-19/live-storytellers

TRANSCRIPT : Katie: Can you start us off and talk about what does safety get sold as in the service system today? Tim : They’re selling us an idea of safety that nothing will ever happen to us. And what they’re doing is they’re trying to provide a cover for families and communities to say, “Great you’ve got it take care of it thank you.” We just kind of believe that there’s a balance. That there a...

TRANSCRIPT : Christopher : For me personally, and I may not have enough experience to see this clearly, but I am very, very drawn to doing things that people thought were impossible. And for many people we work with their families or themselves personally were told at a young age, ‘you’ll never have a job.’ ‘You’ll never…’ A big long list of ‘you’ll never’s.’ That’s what gets me out of bed in the...

Full Transcript: Katie: So, what does it mean to spend a lifetime with people? Tim : There’s a great metaphor from C.S. Lewis in his book “The Four Loves,” where he talks about the difference between approach and nearness, and he talks about this in the context of faith and being close to God. But I think it applies, the way he describes it he says, “I want you to imagine that you’re on a path, an...

Katie : So, tell me about a time you saw a spark at Starfire. Tim: There was a young man that was coming here, Kyle, and he would walk around our day program, and he would walk in a very different way. He would turn his toes inward and make these sideways steps, and he would kind of walk around corners very intentionally. And, I remember, at the time we had a few staff who thought this was a reall...

Katie : So, why is the concept of staying important to Starfire’s work? Tim : There is a great quote by Wendell Berry, and he talks about the marriage vows and they are not for better and for richer and for health, they are for better or worse, richer or poorer, sickness and health. He says that in staying we learn something closer to the truth which is that not everything in life is happy, and no...