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Archive Number 966

Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 13:30:44 EST
From: Gail Rosen
Subject: Response to newcomers and message to all.






To Arni and all,
I haven't been able to keep up with the list postings for more than a few
weeks because of the demands of the season (my retail business helps support
my storytelling).
For those of you, like Arni, who are new to the list and the field of
storytelling and healing, be sure to go to the Healing Story Alliance
website at Healing Story
Alliance
or www.HealingStory.org.
It is the Healing Story Alliance (HSA), a special interest group of the
National Storytelling Network, that sponsors this listserv. On our site, you
can read the newsletters we have published with wonderful articles and
reports of activity in the field. Also be sure to look at Forum Stories
within the site. Each month or so, a new story by a storyteller working in an
area of "applied" storytelling is posted. Each storyteller uses story and
his/her skill as an artist to offer people in many different places of
challenge in their lives, the possibilities of comfort, healing and strength
inherent in the stories and in themselves. We each have the opportunity to
respond to the Forum stories personally and to tell them to others and report
back to the group. The conversation there can be quite enlightening!
As you become familiar with all that HSA does, I hope you will want to join
if you haven't already and become active in the organization that serves this
community of storytellers. Our board and volunteers contribute time and
skills and enjoy the spirit of coming together on this project of the heart,
mind and soul (bodies too!). We welcome additional volunteers. We also
welcome feedback from you, the community we serve, about your needs and how
we can work together to grow our base of knowledge and skill.
Thanks to all for joining the conversation.
Gail Rosen
chair of HSA