Age appropriate; story programs available for K - Adult.
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Reasons To Tell Spooky Stories:
1) Such stories allow an individual of any age to engage in and express emotional responses.
2) Such stories often challenge thinking about fears and give occasion to exercise problem solving
3) Such stories also serve as models of survival by sharpening skills in seeing and understanding situations.
4) Such stories can serve to remind people of all ages that "Flight"
(running from danger or fears) can be smarter than "Fighting."
5) Such stories often serve to present how a protagonist outsmarted the trickster of the story.
6) Such stories have universally served to remind people that they are
alive and to celebrate the thud of the heart, the rapid breath of
surprise and the suspense of fear as healthy and useful assurances that
they are ALIVE!
7) Such stories often serve to allow people to vicariously live through
dangerous situations, recognize their fear responses and be safely
returned to the normal world with valuable lessons about themselves and
others.
