Story Cart with Madeleine Doelker Berlin – The Listening / Soundbath of the Ordinary

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• Saturday, November 15, 2:30-4:30pm (retreat runs 12:30-4:30pm)
• Haggerty Museum of Art, 1234 W Tory Hill St
• Part of the Community Art & Wellness Retreat; registration requested

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The Listening / Soundbath of the Ordinary

At the Haggerty Museum of Art’s Community Art & Wellness Retreat, we’ll attend to silence, noise, and everything in-between.

Then, we’ll talk about it, recording our conversations for the Story Cart’s digital archive.

About the Community Art & Wellness Retreat

The Haggerty Museum of Art invites you to become inspired, rejuvenated and reminded of the powerful role art plays in our collective well-being. 

Running from 12:30 to 4:30pm, this day of overlapping programming includes a talk by installation artist Jan Tichy, a reflective artmaking activity led by art therapists Emily Drenovsky (Marquette University Wellness Center) and Jodi Brown (Mount Mary Graduate Student), contemplative dialogue with spiritual guide Heather Schmidt, printmaking with art therapist Erica Browne, weaving with artist Bryana Bibbs, a performance by Catey Ott Dance Collective, a sound bath by Melissa Blue Muhammad, and attention activism with C21’s Story Cart.

The retreat celebrates the Haggerty’s No One Knows All It Takes, an exhibition of work by four artists (Bryana Bibbs, Raoul Deal, Maria Gaspar, and Swoon) who explore the effects of concealed trauma and the inextricable ties between personal health and collective wellness. By addressing issues like addiction, incarceration, immigration, and a lack of systemic support for caregivers, the artists emphasize the power of personal stories to illuminate problems that are often overlooked or purposefully hidden from view. Moving beyond self-care and individualized treatments, the work directs us to some of the root causes of trauma and highlights systemic issues that undermine societal well-being.

This event is free and open to the public. Prior registration for the Community Art & Wellness Retreat is requested by the Haggerty Museum of Art.

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About Madeleine Doelker Berlin

Madeleine Doelker Berlin (LPC-IT) is an Associate Licensed Professional Counselor, Social Scientist, and a few other things—like an immigrant, a parent, and someone who’s lived through big transitions. Born, raised, and partially professionally trained in Germany, she has a background in social inequality research and a professional path that weaves through mental health, public service, and community advocacy. In both her life and work, Madeleine brings an intersectional, systems-aware lens to understanding how people move through the world. Her current work draws on liberation psychology, existentialist psychology, and feminist psychology to explore how personal healing is connected to social context, meaning-making, and resistance. She’s especially interested in the stories we carry, the cultures that shape us, and the quiet, radical act of paying attention. Madeleine holds graduate degrees in Social Sciences and Clinical Mental Health Counseling. Her approach is grounded, curious, and deeply human.

About Story Cart

Story Cart is a mobile story collection program that travels to community spaces and engages Milwaukeeans in conversations about their lived experiences. Our Story Fellows craft questions related to the current C21 research theme, record participant responses to those questions, and add them to our Story Cart digital archive (forthcoming). Supported by the Wisconsin Institute for Citizenship and Civil Dialogue, Story Cart’s current run introduces Milwaukeeans to practices of radical attention. From September 2025 through May 2026, our community Story Fellows will lead workshop pop-ups throughout the city and will record discussions with participants about the experience of paying attention.

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