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Storytelling for Wellness
With Regi Carpenter
Saturday, May 17, June 21, July 19, August 16
from 1-4pm PDT
Class Description
June 21-Mental Wellness: Healing the Healer
This workshop focuses on nurturing the healer through writing, listening, storytelling and silence. Healers of all kind, professional and personal, need the nourishment provided in this time together. We will explore the myriad of feelings and experiences healers have. You'll learn skills to practice with others and yourself that bring peace and understanding.
July 19-Bereavement Workshop: A New Mourning
This workshop combines storytelling, deep listening, reflection and writing to guide us through the myriad of feelings we have when someone we care about dies.
August 16-Using Traditional Tales to Elicit Personal Stories & Coping Strategies
Stories from the world’s folk and fairy tale tradition often mirror the issues of people who seek professional care: confusion, depression, addiction, grief, and a loss of identity. This workshop demonstrates how these tales also contain coping skills, resourcefulness and resilience.
Regi Carpenter
Your Facilitator
Regi is the recipient of Storytelling World, Parent’s Choice, and Parents’ Guide to Children’s Media Awards. Her stories have been featured on Sirius Radio, Apple Seed Radio, The Moth, and NPR. Her story Snap! is a winner of the Boston StorySlam. Snap! is the true tale of her severe mental illness during her teenage years and her journey back to reality.
Her memoir, Where There’s Smoke, There’s Dinner: Stories of a Seared Childhood is “an unexpected gift that leaves us longing for more.” -Booklist Review
Regi is also the founder of Stories with Spirit, a creative initiative dedicated to bringing songs of joy and stories of hope to grieving children and the people who love and care for them in homes, hospices, and hospitals.
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