Healing Story Alliance

Suitcase Stories Unpacked   Wednesday,  November 14th at 6pm Pacific/9pm Eastern Suitcase Stories® is a traveling live performance series that features foreign and U.S.-born residents sharing refugee and immigrant stories. Since 2017, nearly 3,500 people in Massachusetts and New Hampshire has seen … Continue reading →

Distilling Hope with Beth Ohlsson Wednesday,  October 10th at 6pm Pacific/9pm Eastern Beth Ohlsson is a person in long term recovery who just happens to be a storyteller. “Distilling Hope” combines her love of a good story with her lived experience as a performer, … Continue reading →

Surviving Trauma Through Story with Dorothy Cleveland and Barbara Schutzgruber Wednesday,  May 16th at 6pm Pacific/9pm Eastern Stories of personal trauma exist throughout the centuries in many forms. No matter where you are in the world, abuse happens. In researching Tale Type 706 … Continue reading →

Climate Despair: Can Storytelling Offer a Path Toward Light? with Judith Black Wednesday, April 18th at 6pm Pacific/9pm Eastern Anyone who reads climate science can see the writing on the decaying and broken sea walls, the flooded streets, the draught-stricken, … Continue reading →

Love, Loss And The Stories We Tell with Laura Packer Wednesday, March 14th at 6pm Pacific/9pm Eastern If you love, you will grieve. Whether you lose a job you loved, a relationship you cherished, a person who made your heart sing, or … Continue reading →

Silk and Honey: Enchanting Stories of Love and Wealth with Luisah Teish Join us as author, storyteller and healer Luisah Teish shares with us folktales drawn from the romantic traditions of the African diaspora. Explore deities, ancestors, and spirits of … Continue reading →

Listening Beyond Privilege: Reaching across Culturally Constructed Boundaries to Hear, Honor and Preserve One Another’s Stories with Milbre Burch and Berkley Hudson Wednesday, January 17th at 6pm Pacific/9pm Eastern Growing up White in the racially-segregated, Jim Crow South, storyteller Milbre Burch and journalist Berkley Hudson have … Continue reading →

Storycare with Dan Yashinsky Wednesday, December 13th at 6pm Pacific/9pm Eastern   After three years of working as the storyteller-in-residence at Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, Dan Yashinsky has developed an approach he calls “storycare.”  It means creating times and spaces throughout the healthcare environment where stories can … Continue reading →

Voices of Our Ancestors: Remembering “A Power With” Through Story & Song with Gemma B. Benton November 15th, 2017 at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific Receive an email reminder Much like a thumbprint, our voice is a unique expression of identity and belonging. … Continue reading →

Boo-Tickle Tales: Stories that Teach Kids Resilience Sherry Norfolk and Lyn Ford October  18, 2017 at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific Receive an email reminder Audio Preview Not-so-scary stories for young children can serve a deeper purpose of immunizing children from fear, encouraging creative … Continue reading →

Storytelling In Times Like These The focus of this teleconference is on storytelling as a pivotal instrument to spark interest in social change. Storytelling is an integral part of our consciousness. In the best of times it is sent forth to … Continue reading →

Putting Down the Burning Coal Transforming anger into forgiveness through story. Through the lens of several folktales, personal stories and case studies, Elisa will illustrate the impediments to forgiveness, particularly looking at the many functions of anger. She will also … Continue reading →

The brain is a powerful tool that signals all systems within the human body. Can we direct those messages? Scientists are constantly looking at how the body shapes attitude and how attitude shapes the body. As a storyteller and healing … Continue reading →

Lee Ellen shares from her experiences as educator and arts administrator for the Suicide Prevention and Crisis Service in Ithaca, NY., and specifically how she utilizes storytelling to educate the community and reach the populations in crisis, and support those … Continue reading →

Linda’s work in therapeutic recreation with people living with Alzheimer’s disease and with their caregivers has led her to focus on the healing aspects of Story in recent years. This teleconference includes conversations about Story for the domains of Professionals, … Continue reading →

Michael spoke of his work with the California’s Arts in Corrections program: Inmates learn the power of the art of storytelling. “But I don’t know how to tell a story” is a phrase I hear often at the beginning of … Continue reading →

The Path of the Hero, Navigating Life’s Journey through Story, Art and the Hero’s Journey: A Program for Incarcerated and At-risk Youth In this presentation Carol will described the Brave Life Initiative program, and shared her experiences and stories over the … Continue reading →

  Learning to Care and Listen. Hear about how a story-based approach has informed the creation of a “Caring Corps” and Cindy’s work with 4th graders and their parents at a Boston area synagogue and school. Cindy teaches children skills … Continue reading →

Living Out Loud. The exploration and expression of the self can be fraught with fear and anxiety. We are so often concerned with how our stories will be met by the world that we silent our voices. This teleconference discusses … Continue reading →

Michael McCarty, Susan O’Halloran, Lilli Pang, Emily Lansana, Lani Peterson This teleconference gives you a sneak preview into some of the Healing Story gems that will unfold at the NSN Conference in Kansas City the third week in July. The … Continue reading →

  Tips, Tools, and Stories: Highlights from 15 years of Healing Story Work. In this teleconference, we’ll do a virtual mini-healing story session. I facilitate these sessions regularly in residential drug treatment programs, homeless shelters, domestic violence shelters, and beyond. … Continue reading →

Gather at the Table: Story Sharing between Descendants of Slavery and Descendants of the Slave Trade. Centuries of injustice and trauma that face us every day in this country have no place for half-truths.  Sharon and Tom took the harder … Continue reading →

Sankofa: Fetching our Souls through Story. Sankofa 2016 – December is a time that we traditionally wind down and reflect on the past year and prepare for the new one to come.  Sankofa is a word in the Twi language … Continue reading →

Laura Simms will tell a tale and use it as a touchstone for inspiring a meaningful conversation about how we are feeling at present and how we can be helpful to ourselves and others in this time of sudden potential … Continue reading →

Stories as Blueprints for Resistance and Solidarity: A presentation and story swap led by Storyteller Norah Dooley At a  time in this country when the  language and  behavior of  the incoming  president, and  that of his proposed administration, has encouraged … Continue reading →

 “Together for Humanity – Telling Stories to Heal Conflict” This SEMINAR explores several practical techniques and story treatments that Donna has successfully used over the years through her work with communities in conflict, and in response to cross cultural misunderstandings. … Continue reading →

Dilemma Stories Help Teach Social Justice Dilemma Stories – stories in which there are several options, all of which have some appeal – stimulate conversations about different perspectives and open up ideas different from our own. Dilemma Stories can be … Continue reading →

From Stories of Place to Rewilding our Consciousness Jenni will touch on the breadth of stories she sees as relevant to environmental education and empowerment and that they are not all about nature or environmental issues. Jenni will tell the … Continue reading →

Love Stories Can Change the World The A Human Love Story project is all about sharing; our lives, our experiences, and our humanity as a way of creating ‘deep community’. The sharing of these stories together becomes an act of … Continue reading →

From Stories of Place to Rewilding our Consciousness The Conversation Continues! Jenni will begin with a guided nature visualization and then outline some of the key concepts she teaches in her environmental storytelling workshops. She will tell a Buddhist prophecy … Continue reading →