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Welcome to our Events page - where members of the Healing Story Alliance (HSA) Special Interest Group can share information with each other that is relevant to our mission about their new books, articles, workshops, concerts, (etc.). The content on this page will change monthly or as new information is offered by our membership.
Introducing: Healing Story Teleconferences
An Exciting New Program from the Healing Story Alliance
Now, Healing Story Alliance members have a great new way to access high-quality, current information from some of the most experienced practitioners of our work. Simply dial into the National Storytelling Network teleconference line and join the conversation. Each month, a new topic and speaker will be featured. Conferences last one hour. They consist of 30 minutes of lecture, followed by discussion and a Q&A session. It's as simple as dialing 1-888-887-0127 from your touch-tone phone. When prompted, dial the bridge number 658186.
For more information, e-mail cneile@fau.edu or call 561-297-0042.
Our April teleconference features Laura Simms:
Monday, April 9, 8:30 p.m.
LAURA SIMMS-Uncovering Resources of Calm
Hosted by Caren S. Neile
Laura shares her insights into the ways in which storytelling provides an experience of "restful mind," even when experiencing chaos and fear. By doing this, we begin to instigate our own healing intelligence and capacity for alternative thinking, visualization, and a sense of beneficial well-being regardless of circumstance.
Laura Simms is a storyteller committed to the recognition and benefits of storytelling as an immediate tool for behavioral change, relief from fixation and deep grief, and a means of healing for individuals and communities. She is the storyteller-in-residence for the Sterling Foundation in New York, a storytelling Fellow at the Arthur Mauro Peace and Justice Center, and she works closely with the Murie Center on environmental projects. Laura teaches at New York University, University of Utah, and the Wellspring Residency. When not touring telling stories, she works worldwide as an advocate for youth and communities recovering from crisis. She has studied Tibetan Buddhist meditation for more than 25 years. www.laurasimms.com
And mark your calendars for upcoming conferences:
Wednesday, May 9, 8:30 p.m.
DIANE ROOKS- Navigating Change and Illness with Stories
Hosted by Lani Peterson
Wednesday, June 13, 8:30 p.m.
MEG GILMAN-Just What Is "Healing" About "Healing Story"?
Hosted by Caren S. Neile
Monday, July 2, 8:30 p.m.
GAIL ROSEN-Crossing Bridges: Storytelling and Bereavement
Hosted by Caren S. Neile
HSA STORY CONCERT
Wednesday July 11, 2007 7:30 - 9:30 p.m.
Making Peace - With Ourselves,
With Each Other, With the Earth
Come together; make peace; create connection.
Milbre Burch
A Singing Bird Will Come: Stories of Peace and Justice and Reconciliation
In a nation torn by international terrorism and its own inner violence, stories of peace and justice and reconciliation are as potent as they are rare.
Elizabeth Ellis
One Size Fits Some: Swallowing Your Pride, Stuffing Your Feelings
A look at what's funny and frightening about being overweight in America.
Garth Gilchrist
All My Fellow Mortals
John Muir's classic story "Stickeen", and the vision of interconnectedness.
Open to all HSA members
SIG Pre-conference and NSN Conference attendees
and to the general community.
Admission is $10 ($5 for HSA Pre-conference registrants).
HSA PRE-CONFERENCE
Making Peace - With Ourselves,
With Each Other, With the Earth
produced by the Healing Story Alliance,
a Special Interest Group of NSN
Thursday, July 12, 2007
8:30 a.m. - 4:45 p.m.
This year's HSA Pre-conference focuses on creative peace-making, reconnecting with nature, and ways to bring the sensibility of both into our lives and work.
After a brief morning welcome and opener, participants will attend one of two concurrent all-day workshop intensives.
Milbre Burch will present Making the Heart Whole Again: Stories and Strategies for Peace-Making in a Wounded World.
Explore conflict resolution stories (self-esteem and bullying issues; school cliques, homophobia and domestic violence; the challenge of teaching tolerance) from diverse global traditions through hands-on exercises, including group 'brainstorming' on how and where to use the stories and exercises. Receive 'peace-making' media resources, two extensive bibliographies, and Milbre's own collection of quotes, meditations and prayers about peace.
Garth Gilchrist will present an engaging session, Healing in Nature: Story, Landscape, Language - and the Regenerative Power of the Imagination
An experiential float down the creative confluence of two healing rivers: nature and story. Infused with the outer landscapes of nature, the interior landscapes of metaphor, memory and reflective language release powerful healing forces in us that renew and restore in surprising ways. You'll carry this life wisdom into every dimension of your story and healing work, calling on this connection for yourself and encouraging its healing force for others.
At the end of the day, we will regroup to share our experiences, followed by a short closing ceremony.
Making peace; honoring the earth.
Seeking peace often asks us to sit with our own stories, to listen deeply to our inner voices, to the voices and stories of others, and to the voices and stories of nature.
We'll learn to speak the language of peace through story.
We'll bend close to the earth and its waters, reach up to the sky, listen, and imagine.
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