"This toolkit is designed to inspire meaningful conversations with the people involved in and affected by your work. It will help you discover how people have been affected by conflict, continuity, and change. It will show you how to share your stories with others in exchange for theirs. Stories and the process of sharing them are the building blocks for deep interpersonal relationships where the processes of healing, reconciliation, resolution, and conflict prevention are found. When we engage in story-telling and story-listening, we experience new worlds and discover how other people travel in paths similar to our own. We find stories that have the power to transcend borders, time, and space. Stories tell us about the diversity of traditions, customs, and ways of life that are an important part of everyday life." (Page 2)