Side Effect: Public Health Personal Stories January 9, 2019 Addiction affects millions of Americans. At a live storytelling event held Aug. 14, 2018, Indiana community members who struggle with addiction shared their stories of life in recovery. Stories shared included: a “moment of clarity” that lead to their sobriety a non-typical story of someone […]
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National Endowment for the Arts: Art Works Blog (Washington, DC), September 30, 2014 Summary: “When we bring people together to share stories, we create community. And that’s what happens at festivals, and that’s what I’m really interested in. It’s not the idea that when you come to a festival you listen to culture or that
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DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING A Hungry Princess © Srebrenka Peregrin Writing This Story In 2012, as a result of walking away from a high-demand religious community, I went through a number of traumatic experiences that included bullying and isolation from those I loved. These events hurled me into a clinical depression
Why Right-brainers Will Rule This Century CNN.com (Atlanta, GA), May 7, 2009 Summary: Your left brain is logical, linear, by-the-numbers; the right side is creative, artistic, empathetic. Oprah Winfrey talks with Daniel Pink about his groundbreaking book, “A Whole New Mind”, and explores how right-brain thinkers are wired for 21st-century success. The best part: Anyone
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by Nancy Mellon, September 21, 2001. Soon after the recent events in New York City, I received from a mother the following story. The previous morning her six-year old child had told her a dream: “I was on a ship and it crashed. There were a lot of skeletons around and then some people came
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Presented as part of the 2021 Earth Up Conference | ASL Interpretation Provided Multiple prize-winning author Jane Yolen, whose 400th book recently saw print, will talk with us about why she so often writes about nature and why that is important. She will also read selected passages from her books. The talk will be followed
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By Danni Altman-Newell, Marketing & Membership Manager Happy Holidays! Can you believe 2017 is already coming to a close? I can’t! The last five months have been a whirlwind of activity for the Kansas City office staff. The year-end message from the Board of Directors gave you a peek behind the curtain of some of
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DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING Dear Reader, You will notice that the 2017 Diving in the Moon has a new feature. I have often in the past wanted to make some comments on the journal as we go about putting it together, and so here is my first crack at Editor’s Comments.
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told by Mike Lockett Listen to story The story originates in India. My telling is a kicked up version of a traditional Indian Folktale. My telling includes both poetry and prose, along with special vocal sound effects that I add with the use of the microphone as I tell the tale. I developed this story
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By Bill Wight, NSN Board Chair You and Your Story Belong Here! I’d like to extend my remarks from our recently-completed Summit. The National Storytelling Network stands at a pivotal point in our history. It seems that we must grow or die. Continuing on our present course would likely exhaust our financial reserves within the
