Can I Get a Witness? A Storytelling Workshop with Melinda Bullen
Sat, Aug 15
|Quietude Retreat Center
10:00am-12:30pm Doors open at 10, program starts at 10:15 Presented by White Horse Community Hub in collaboration with Quietude FREE - Registration Required
Time & Location
Aug 15, 2026, 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Quietude Retreat Center, 1130 Montreat Rd, Black Mountain, NC 28711, USA
About the event
An interactive storytelling workshop exploring how the stories we tell—and the way we witness them—shape our relationships.
We make sense of our lives through stories.
Every day we tell stories. About work. About our families. About something funny that happened at the grocery store. About something that hurt. About something we can't quite make sense of yet.
Some stories grow as we tell them. Others get edited. Softened. Made smaller. Sometimes we don't tell them at all. And sometimes we find spaces that welcome them.
Can I Get a Witness? is an interactive storytelling workshop that explores what happens between the storyteller and the listener.
Together, we'll explore how the presence—or absence—of a thoughtful witness shapes what we're willing to say, what we leave unsaid, and what becomes possible when someone feels genuinely heard.