Project Engage is an intergenerational storytelling experience created to reconnect generations through intentional listening, shared truth, and mutual respect. At its core, Project Engage is about slowing down long enough to hear one another not just to collect stories, but to understand the people behind them.
In this program, students are not simply learning how to ask questions. They are learning how to listen with care, how to sit with someone else's experiences, and how to recognize the responsibility that comes with holding another person's story. Elders are not treated as history lessons or interview subjects; they are honored as living archives whose lives hold wisdom, struggle, resilience, love, and lessons that deserve to be preserved.
Week 1 - Who I AM Before the Story
Understanding identity, self-awareness, and entering the story circle with intention
Week 2 - Listening, Respect & Responsibility
Learning how the story circle works and why listening is an active responsibility
Week 3 - Identity, Roots, & Lived Experience
Exploring background, culture, and lived experience with curiosity and respect
Week 4 - Responsibility, Values, & Decisions
Understanding how choices shape life paths across generations
Week 5 - Work, Purpose, & Calling
Exploring work, responsibility, survival, and evolving purpose
Week 6 - Love, Relationships, & Heartbreak
Understanding connection, commitment, loss, and healing
Week 7 - Identity, Race, & Lived Experience
Listening to elders' truths with awareness, respect, and responsibility
Week 8 - Breaking Points & Breakthroughs
Understanding turning points, resilience, and transformation
Week 9 - Healing Forgiveness & Growth
Exploring healing as a process and listening with compassion
Week 10 - Wisdom Legacy, & Life Lessons
Understanding meaning, lessons learned, and what is passed forward
Week 11 - Shaping the Story: Truth, Voice, & Responsibility
Turning interviews into honest, respectful narratives
Week 12 - Sharing the Story & Honoring Legacy
Presenting stories with care, gratitude, and responsibility
