DIVING IN THE MOON JOURNAL WANTS TO HEAR FROM YOU! The Healing Story Alliance journal, Diving in the Moon: Honoring Story, Facilitating Healing, will now be designed as an e-journal that will be published online on the Healing Story Alliance journal Web site by or before fall 2013. The theme for the first online … Continue reading
Category Archives: Storytelling and Change
How Storytelling Generates The “Power of We:” Blog Action Day 2012, #powerofwe
For the fifth year, I’m participating in Blog Action Day; the theme this year is “The Power of We.” It’s about growing movements of people working together for positive social change. From the Blog Action Day organizers: Whether using digital tools like blogs, social networks and mobiles, or meeting face … Continue reading
If Ever There Was a Time for Women’s Stories to be Told, This Is It
Last night, First Lady Michelle Obama told her story to the nation at the Democratic National Convention, adding: If farmers and blacksmiths could win independence from an empire…if immigrants could leave behind everything they knew for a better life on our shores…if women could be dragged to jail for seeking … Continue reading
Story Fest Is Under Way
The 10th JustStories Storytelling Festival that I’ve posted about a couple of times has begun. See graphic for today’s storytellers. The program contains capsule descriptions of all the stories that will be told during the 3-day (today through Aug. 3) online festival. Download here: Storytelling Festival Program. Also check out … Continue reading
Veterans Encouraged to Tell Their Stories on The Frontlines
I don’t usually single out story-related Web sites or blogs, but instead list them on my inside pages. Nathan Tierney, however, sent me an email appeal about his newly launched site The Frontlines. The Frontlines aims to combine the 40,000 organizations that support veterans into one network of veterans, active … Continue reading
40+ Storytellers Comprise Schedule for Online Storytelling Festival
The schedule for the 10th JustStories Storytelling Festival, which I posted about last week is now available. The program contains capsule descriptions of all the stories that will be told during the 3-day (Aug. 1-3) online festival. Download here: Storytelling Festival Program. Also check out the festival’s Facebook page.
Online Storytelling Festival Aug. 1-3 Strengthens and Honors the Human Family
The 10th JustStories Festival on Aug. 1 – 3 takes place on Facebook. Events are scheduled roughly an hour apart throughout the days of the festival. Attendees can visit the festival’s Facebook page to watch the videos, participate in live chats with featured storytellers, and gain access to other resources … Continue reading
Stories of Woman Suffrage Sought
The Sewall-Belmont House & Museum, which maintains an extensive collection of suffrage banners, archives and artifacts documenting the continuing effort by women and men of all races, religions and backgrounds to win voting rights and equality for women under the law, educates the public on the history of the National … Continue reading
How Would You Use Storytelling to Unite Your Community and Bring People Together? Submit a Proposal
GOOD Maker, a tool to help people make good things happen, wants to know how you would use storytelling to unite your community and bring people together and is asking you to tell us how you use storytelling to unite and improve your community: Propose an idea that will allow … Continue reading
Non-Profit Narrative Book is Free Today
Dan Portnoy’s The Non-Profit Narrative: How Telling Stories Can Change the World is free for download to your Kindle device until Thursday (May 10) 12 a.m. You can download it from this link. In the book, Portnoy Media Group chief storyteller Dan Portnoy shows how non-profits thrive by telling great … Continue reading