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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 monthly 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: May 1st, 2022

Time: 6:00pm-7:30 pm CDT/ 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

ABOUT the STORYTELLERS

Len Cabral is an internationally acclaimed storyteller who has been enchanting audiences with his storytelling performances at schools, libraries, museums and festivals since 1976.  A great grandson of a Cape Verdean whaler whose grandparents immigrated to America from the islands off the coast of West Africa,  Len’s strong Cape Verdean ancestry comes alive in his exuberant retelling of African, Cape Verdean, and Caribbean folktales as well as original stories and tales from around the world. Len is a popular storyteller at theaters, schools and festivals throughout the United States and has performed at festivals in Ireland, Belgium, Austria, Holland and Canada.  He is the recipient of the National Storytelling Network 2001 Circle of Excellence Oracle Award. The author of a children’s book for young readers and contributing to several folktale collections, Len also has five storytelling  recordings, several receiving NAPPA and Parents’ Choice awards.

Lyn Ford is a fourth-generation, nationally recognized, Affrilachian storyteller. She is a teaching artist and workshop facilitator with the Ohio Alliance for Arts Education, a Thurber House mentor, and an author published in storytelling magazines, newsletters, teachers’ enrichment books and story anthologies. She also an award- winning recording artist and a Laughter Yoga Teacher. She teaches workshops in storytelling, creative-writing and is an  interactive keynote presenter.

She is a happy partner-in-life, mama, grandmama, great-grandmama, and good cook!

See: Laughter, Breath, Joy!

Poonam Joshy is an accomplished Educator with an experience of over 15 years. She is a passionate storyteller. Her repertoire includes stories from Indian Mythology and folk tales from all over the globe. She often infuses Indian classical Ragas in her performances to enhance the listening experience. She is a co producer of “Call of Duty” a podcast which features the stories of the soldiers from the Indian Armed Forces. She is also the cofounder of “Indian Storytellers Healing Network” A dreamer, she believes, life is a festival, celebrate it with stories, listen to many, tell a few and write at least one. When not telling stories, she writes, reads, paints and weaves stories.

Emcee

Jim Brule  received s’micha as a maggid in a highly-respected lineage, including Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach (zt”l), Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (zt”l), and Maggid Yitzhak Buxbaum. He started his professional life as a clinical psychologist, and from there moved to the field of artificial intelligence. He was a successful entrepreneur and  most recently a regulatory expert in healthcare. All of these disparate fields are interwoven with the force of story. Since he first encountered a radically different ethnic spirituality while living in the Philippines as a teenager, he has been drawn to the insights and transformative connections that spring out of actively encountering other cultures and faith traditions with an open heart.

Special Guest: Community Teller

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

Wally Scott has worked with children and families in many different contexts for over 40 years.  He is currently a faculty member in the Department of Counselor Education at Radford University in Virginia. He has been incorporating story into his narrative practices as a clinician, supervisor and counselor educator throughout his career and has consistently presented to international, national, state and regional audiences on healing stories, stories that heal and neuroscience, narrative and trauma. He is on the executive committee of HSA and was instrumental in creating the OARs in the Water Project. He most enjoys sharing stories with his grandchildren.