Resource Library

Thickening the narrative, a term borrowed from Narrative Therapy, a discipline that centers the stories people tell about themselves, and facilitates seeking new stories when the old stories no longer serve them.

Reflections on the Pixar movie Coco and how it encourages family storytelling and remembering.

Though any memoir could be considered documentary practice, this particular one was inspired by Scheer diving into his own archives (or collections). It's also hilarious and heartbreaking.

A list of inspirations that consider space and land as a crucial part of the history and story that we tell.

A list of trusted vendors for archival supplies such as photo boxes, negative sleeves, and folders.

This book has a wealth of memoir writing exercises that can easily be adapted to writing about family and community histories. If your family/community responds better to writing prompts than an oral history interview, this book is an excellent resource to jog memories.

First published in 1992 to wide critical acclaim, Pictures From Home is Larry Sultan’s pendant to his parents. We often think about archives as something that gets saved, memorialized, put away to be discovered for other generations.

Transformative Language Arts (TLA) is a field for practitioners who change the world with words. TLA-ers are activists, teachers, storytellers, coaches, mental health professionals, writers, poets, librarians, facilitators, performers and more.

OHMA teaches oral history as a practice of co-creating dialogic, critical conversations about the past, in the present, which are oriented towards the future. They also present public workshops and presentations, which are always incredibly informative and well-facilitated.