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Share 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
ABOUT the WORKSHOP
Anger is an uncomfortable, often taboo, sometimes dangerous, and very necessary emotion. It informs us when our personal needs are not being met, when there is injustice, and when action is required. Anger often covers painful emotions, such as grief, powerlessness, shame, and fear. Understanding how our anger is trying to help us is a crucial step in the forgiveness/healing process. By listening to our anger’s stories with compassion and curiosity, we connect to what is important to us, and live more authentically.
WHAT WE WILL DO in the WORKSHOP
In this participatory workshop, we will explore familial and cultural stories we learned around our right to feel and express anger. We will recall times when our righteous anger empowered us to make change. A Buddhist folktale will lend insight into the many reasons we hold on to resentments. Elisa will guide us in a practice to befriend and learn from our anger. We will end with an individual exploration of a situation that triggers our anger: listening with compassion to its wisdom, finding the love and grief underneath, and empowering ourselves to take healing action.
About the Presenter
Elisa Pearmain is a Professional Storyteller, award-winning author and licensed psychotherapist. She has been thinking, storytelling, writing, counseling and teaching about forgiveness for over 15 years. Certifications in Internal Family Systems Therapy and Mindfulness Training guide her approach. Her double CD Forgiveness: Telling our Stories in New Ways won a Storytelling World Honor Award in 2014. She has led variations on this workshop at the CT Storytelling Festival, at the Sharing the Fire conference, in churches and for private groups.
Date & Time
Sun, Nov 10, 2024 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM