Mosaic Voices Multicultural Foundation

A Letter from Our Founder

Mosaic's core projects, Voices of Youth, Voices of Veterans, and Voices of Community have always been based in the heartfelt and healing process of telling painful truths in public. The true stories of how our young people wind up homeless on the streets or caught up in violence, how our veterans remain captured in post war traumas, and how injustice and hatred can flood whole communities with drugs and violence have been the life-blood of Mosaic's Creative Mentoring.

As we seek to further the healing process of truth-telling and community building we need your help. Your generous donations help sustain our core Voices projects, expand Mosaic's educational initiatives, and innovative mentor trainings. Thank you for your work in your community and for your continued support of Mosaic.

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In this remarkable and timely book, renowned mythologist and storyteller Michael Meade explores the complex and mysterious territories of the human soul with daring and hard-won wisdom. Drawing on folktales and myths from many cultures and spiritual ideas from the East and West, he leads us to an undeniable truth: that the only story we came here to live is our own.

Weaving stories within stories, lacing pertinent psychology within cultural analysis, and mixing autobiography with myth, Meade opens the territory of fate and destiny to new interpretations and deeper meanings.

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Click here to read excerpts from an in-depth interview with Michael Meade in the November issue of The Sun magazine This wide ranging discussion includes topics from the economy to war, from the troubles of youth to the challenges of elders, from the role of mythology to the necessity of love.

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Mentoring is an age-old, earth-oriented practice that aims at revealing the inner nature and natural genius of youth, while awakening the inner elder in the "olders." Mentoring involves natural inclinations to teach and to learn, and essential instincts to guide and protect. When used in creative ways mentoring becomes a "living bridge" between generations that invites youth into issues of cultural change and environmental healing.

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Voices of Youth and the Koures Symposium are a series of projects that involve diverse youth in a variety of communities. Through the Voices process, youth become engaged in the creation of an artistic forum for their own expression while developing mentoring relationships within their communities. Themes of contemporary disorientation find unique expression through the writings and voices of local youth, offering insights into the root causes of youth violence, cynicism, and apathy. A narrative mix of old stories and youthful voices is then presented to the local community in an event that is part theater, part literature, and part celebration.

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Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012 ~ 7 pm
Vashon United Methodist Church, Vashon , WA

The original idea of genius refers to the natural spirit and inner qualities of a person; this includes their god-given talents as well as the way they are aimed at life. In that sense, everyone has a genius nature and something essential to give to the world. However, when neglected or rejected our natural genius can incite our worst inner demons.

Join us for an evening of stories and poems and discussion of the many ways that the genius in us keeps finding meaningful ways for us to change and to grow.
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Mosaic's recent Voices of Veterans retreat and Welcome Home Ceremony brought together veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the local community. Its purpose was to help heal the distance between the warriors and those they protect, and to bridge the gap between war and peace, trauma and renewal, pain and understanding. Through the language of poetry and story, as well as the dignity of ceremony, participating veterans were genuinely and compassionately welcomed home.
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Mosaic is happy to present an array of poems by participating veterans.

Opening the Doorway a Little Wider
by William Jackson

Torn Body; Torn Mind; Torn Spirit.
Can the pain and torment continue?
Will it wash off like the cakes of blood and dirt;
layer by layer; year after year?

I have scrubbed my mind and body,
I do feel the thick layer of War is thinning.
I'm coming to peace with my Being, beginning
to come to terms with the condition and
work on ways to polish the inner gold.

Time has done its part to thin the skin of War
that has covered my body from basic training till now.
I need to give it all a rest while the Light still Shines,
and open the door a little wider.

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