by Kathy Murphy. Imagine a small group of older people sitting in a living room. I begin to tell stories. Someone in the audience might fall asleep, or interrupt me, or get up and leave. Or, something magical might happen… I am a freelance storyteller, working mostly with senior adults in long-term healthcare facilities and […]
Connecting Across the Years: Storytelling in Assisted Living Centers Details »
Variety (Los Angeles, CA) , February 13, 2012 Summary: USA Network has gone well beyond public service announcements with its Characters Unite initiative, which aims to promote tolerance and acceptance of people from diverse backgrounds. This year’s campaign has incorporated a national storytelling tour featuring notable figures, including some USA stars, sharing stories of their
by Leeny Del Seamonds “Live the Story!” That’s been my motto for 24+ years. This catchphrase is throughout my website and is part of my signature. I strive to apply it to my body of work as a performer and teaching artist. As a story coach, I often observe new students concentrating so hard on
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Interview with Julie de Bastion, July 9, 2008 Nancy Mellon is [a] storyteller, healer, visionary and artist. Her workshops brim with creativity and wisdom, and now she has written an extraordinary new book, Body Eloquence, published by Energy Psychology Press in the USA. Body Eloquence, written in collaboration with Ashley Ramsden, reveals deep and amazing
Waking Up the Stories Within Us ~ Interview with Nancy Mellon author of Body Eloquence Details »
By Bill Wight, NSN Vice Chair On May 9th, your Board launched an exciting initiative aimed at extending NSN’s reach, attracting new members, and making our flagship publication, Storytelling Magazine, even better. Immediately, we stumbled. The crash was instantaneous, and deafening. The seeds of that crash were planted well before the event. We were unaware
By Deborah Freedman. Images are powerful medicine. There are internal images that develop out of thought, experience and imagination, and grow into stories of information, narrative and fairytale, touching the mind, the heart and the soul. There are two words that seem appropriate to our awakening as listeners – integration and transformation. The format I
The Daily Astorian (Portland, OR), November 9, 2012 Summary: When Back Fence PDX hosted its first live storytelling shows in 2008, the idea of standing up in front of your friends and neighbors to tell your most intimate and personal stories was a novelty to most Portlanders. “When we started, we got numerous emails from
Q&A with Frayn Masters of Back Fence PDX Details »
by Anne Tezon “When you are young, your grandparents try to tell you their history, and you don’t care because it doesn’t interest you at the time. Later on, you wish you had written down what they said.” A good friend shared that message on my Facebook timeline more than a year ago. I use
Talk to me before you go . . . Before it’s too late Details »
Tale from the Iliad, Book 6. Translated by Joan Sutton. We are departing from our usual type of posting with this very special contribution from Joan Sutton. Joan is a Greek scholar who has been studying Homer’s Iliad for the past six years. This story has not been rewritten for oral performance, but is a
by Megan Hicks One of my storyteller friends told me I should write about how to make fairy tales interesting enough for adults to enjoy. Here’s my quick and dirty recipe for success: Leave the story alone and tell it straight. No “voices.” No theatrics. No punches pulled. …Because the fact of the matter is,
Fairy Tales for Grownups Details »
