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‘Kindness is having the ability to speak with love,
listen with patience, and act with compassion.”
-Random Acts of Kindness Foundation

Join the Healing Story Alliance for a special gathering to share and explore stories of kindness
in its many faces and forms. Through folk tales and personal stories, we will dive deeply into
multiple experiences of kindness. What is it? How does it impact us and our relationships to
ourselves, to each other, to the world? Come and listen to “kind stories” shared by both
professional tellers and community members and see what memories of kindness emerge for
you.
Date: Oct. 2nd, 2022
Time: 7:00pm-8:30pm EDT
(Open Mic Story Share and Reflection: last half hour)
Format: The story session opens with a concert of seasoned tellers and community tellers
sharing stories with themes of kindness. During the second half of the gathering, audience
members are invited to share a story, moment, or reflection about kindness that emerged for
them as listeners.
Purpose: We all need a little more kindness in our lives. Perhaps a story can take us there.
For more information, contact:
Lani Peterson: Lani@LaniPeterson.com or
Heather Forest Heather@storyarts.org
“WHEN YOU ARE KIND TO OTHERS, IT NOT ONLY CHANGES YOU, IT CHANGES THE
WORLD.”
Harold Kushner

KIND STORIES in CONCERT
ABOUT the STORYTELLERS

Jyoti Pande is a trained Counsellor, with an experience of 25 years
plus as an educator . A mindfulness practitioner and a Happiness
coach, she is a passionate Storyteller, and loves to narrate folk
tales and stories from Indian Mythology. She is the founding
member of ISHN (Indian Storytellers Healing Network ) for she
believes that stories heal. She conducts training for teachers,
students and corporates under her organization SOUL -KATHA ,
and co-facilitates monthly circles on healing. She is happiest when
learning new skills, telling or listening to stories.

Kory May, chair of the National Storytelling Network, is a long-
time host and facilitator, a 16-year member of Toastmasters and

two-time Distinguished Toastmaster. He is also a five-time
semifinalist in Toastmasters International World Championship of
Public Speaking, ranking in the top 20 in the world in 2015, in the
top 30 in the world in 2018 and 2021. Kory says he tells stories to
make sense of the world. Since the world doesn’t make sense,
Kory continues to tell stories.

Milbre Burch is a GRAMMY-nominated recording artist,
nationally known touring and teaching artist, published writer and
produced playwright, Milbre Burch is a storyteller in every sense
of the word. An accidental archivist of the American storytelling
revival, she has been featured at festivals across America, in
Europe, Asia, and now online. She holds a Phd in Theatre and
Performance Studies and has presented and published
scholarship on fairy tale performance, and the narrative and
dramatic strategies of American storytellers, solo performers and
playwrights.

Emcee
Elisa Pearmain has been telling stories professionally
since 1987, and always with a penchant for the many
healing benefits of story. She is the award-winning
author of 52 Wisdom Tales from Around The World,
Once Upon a Time: Storytelling to Teach Character and
Prevent Bullying, and the double CD Forgiveness: Telling
Our Stories in New Ways. Elisa is also a Psychotherapist
in private practice, and is on the Executive Board of the
Healing Story Alliance

Special Guests: Community Tellers

Also featured will be Community Tellers who will share anecdotes of kindness from his life and
work.

Laura Hunt
While raising her two children, Laura Hunt was an elementary school
teacher, a mentor and trainer, and a budding advocate for gender

equality. She’s now found the perfect professional home as co-
director of Hands in Outreach, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering

marginalized girls and women in inner-city Kathmandu. In her several
trips to Nepal, Laura has formed deep personal connections with the
people she serves. She carries heartfelt stories of women and girls
whose lives have been transformed through access to education and
a strong sisterhood. Perhaps the life that has been impacted the most by this work and
focus, in fact, is her own.

Shristi Tamang
Shristi Tamang: At age 17, Shristi competed with high school
students from around the world and received a full scholarship to
attend United World College in Montezuma, NM. This unique early
college program has campuses around the globe with the shared
vision of making education a force to unite nations and cultures,
promoting peace and a sustainable future. Raised in a tiny one-room
home in Kathmandu that was shared with her parents and sister,
Shristi’s education was sponsored by Hands in Outreach since she was five. Now she is an
11th grader, studying in the US and learning with fellow student leaders from around the
world. Shristi describes herself as a driven self-starter who has a strong idealism to make
changes through education. Her favorite hobbies are hiking, backpacking, and cooking.