Your Brain and The Stories It Tells

A 90-minute workshop on observation, narrative, and how we confuse the two

You saw what you saw. Or did you?

Between every event and every conclusion we draw, something happens — our brain creates a story. It fills in gaps, assigns meaning, protects our identity, and presents the whole package back to us as fact. Most of the time, we never notice.

This workshop picks up where Reality Fatigue left off. We go one layer deeper into why truth is so hard to hold — not because we are foolish, but because we are human.

In this 90-minute session we will explore how the brain filters reality through confirmation bias, identity protection, and narrative preference, practice the difference between observation and interpretation using real-life scenarios, and work through guided reflection exercises drawn from the Griots Pilgrimage Truth Workbook.

Led by Marta Cruz Kelly, author of Truth Requires Practice: Becoming a Griot. Participants receive a reflection worksheet. Space is limited.