Healing Story Alliance is a not-for-profit, educational, arts organization which provides online resources and concert, workshop, and community programming in support of storytelling as a healing art.
Description
As an extension of the Climate Stories event with Bill McKibben, this workshop will help you find ways to transform your factual knowledge into powerful and engaging stories.
These kinds of tales can be used to educate and are useful for public speech of all kinds including:
- Supporting specific legislation or issues at local, state and national hearings
- Advocating politically at the local, state and national level
- Discussing stewardship in your house of prayer
- Public speaking on poignant issues at Town Meetings
- Conversing with others in your active organizational circles such as Garden Clubs, League of Women Voters, Young Republicans, Building and Trade, Chamber of Commerce…)
- Extending family dinners with talk (and more)
About the Workshop Leader
Judith Black has performed 14 times at the International Storytelling Festival, and venues in S. Africa, Sweden, Israel, France, and Freedom, NH. She is also a committed climate activist who has stood on the tracks trying to stop coal trains from reaching their destinations, been arrested protesting Citibank’s fossil fuels investments, and fasted for 8 days to bring attention to a new fossil fuel Peaker plant in her neighborhood. With Fran Stallings and Sheila Arnold under the egis of ASST, she launched CLIMATE CONVERSATIONS: Science and Stories in a unique approach to public engagement and consequential action related to our climate crisis. Prior to death, she hopes to bind story and climate so that it creates a fire for action in everyone’s heart. www.storiesalive.com storiesalive@gmail.com
Date & Time
Sun, Mar 23, 2025 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM