Sparkle Weekly Wonderings: How to Be Super
In the summer of 2008, I wrote a story during the summer before my final year of teaching. It all started when I saw something strange — impossible, really — happen on the main street of our town in New Hampshire. I could have brushed it off as a hallucination, but I chose to believe it happened — and thus the Prime Power Protocol and How to Be Super series began. I “kept my eyes open” and noticed something extraordinary. I “believed” that what I saw was true (Protocol Two) and then did “something brave” by starting to look more closely at my environment. What resulted was a story called “I Am Marvel” and (although I didn’t know it at the time) it would one day be a part of our most popular story series for older children: How to Be Super.
This past week, we posted the last story in the final collection of How to Be Super stories, The Dragon Within. I had to re-record the ending several times because I kept getting too emotional and my voice tightened. I’ve lived with these wonderful characters for four years now and it is hard to say goodbye. But I believe it when I say in the final sentence of the series,
“Now it is time for new chapters to be told — not by me, but by you.”
This is why we’ve created the How to Be Super Summer Camp: to keep the mission alive. The protocols in the camp are the same that I used so long ago to land the first stories in the series as well as the 1100 sparkle stories that followed. I pay attention (Protocol One), I use my heart to help me make decisions (Protocol Two), I overcome shyness and discomfort to show up and get to work (Protocol Three), and I do it all in service to you, my listeners and subscribers (Protocol Four). This is the root of the summer camp curriculum which is steeped in creative exploration of superpowers, power groups, protocols of service, and — in the end — tons of fun.
Camp starts June 18 and it is designed for children 6 years and older (children 9+ have an added project which results in the creation of their very own comic book).
It would be a privilege to work with your children on finding what makes them super — and then guiding them to use those powers to help others.
About the Author
David Sewell McCann
David Sewell McCann fell in love with spinning stories in first grade – the day a storyteller came to his class and captured his mind and imagination. He has been engaged in storytelling all of his adult life through painting, film-making, teaching and performing. Out of his experience as a Waldorf elementary class teacher and parent, he has developed a four step method of intuitive storytelling, which he now shares through workshops and through this website.
