EXPERIENCE WORKSHOP
Realizing the impact our primary production has had on communities, we built a program that offers participants a platform to process and share their individual experiences using the unique storytelling model we created, weaving together personal narratives, music, and film. Each storyteller is supported by our Modern Warrior artistic team led by Dominick Farinacci, and culminates in a filmed live performance.
VETERAN COMMUNITIES
WORK & REENTRY
We've well-established our organization within the veteran and mental health communities. As we've brought these stories to communities, we began to see through lines that connected veteran stories to returning citizens involved in the criminal justice system. Championing the belief that every individual, regardless of their past, has the capacity for growth, resilience, and redemption, we've expanded the program beyond veterans to include formerly incarcerated individuals.
"Stigma often creates barriers to communication that leave so many of us feeling isolated and unable to share our struggles. In doing this, we risk further separating from the communities that can help us heal," says Jaymes Poling.
"With the Modern Warrior EXPERIENCE program, we strive to tear down those barriers to communication, allowing individuals to share the unfiltered reality of their journey, and in doing so carve a path for others hoping for a better tomorrow," says Dominick Farinacci.
EXPERIENCE TESTIMONIALS
“Just to be able to share is helping me a lot, to get past what has happened. I’m also feeling that posttraumatic growth...and I want to share my story to help people who are feeling like victims, to move from a victim to a survivor.”
— EXPERIENCE Participant
“The amazing stories told in [the Experience workshop] were not only liberating for the participants, but they showed others they too can overcome obstacles.
— Audience Member
“Through this, I started realizing I could communicate with my family about things I couldn’t communicate with them before.”
— EXPERIENCE Participant
“As I experienced the show, I could visualize my husbandgoing through the emotional journey you allowed us to be a part of.”
— Audience Member
“The feeling of empowerment when I shared my story with the live music made me feel like a hero in my own story.”
— EXPERIENCE Participant
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Performances, Screenings & General Inquiries
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