Storytelling CV
National Storytelling Network’s ORACLE Award:
Regional Service & Leadership, – Northeast Region, 2025.
Presented to individuals or organizations that have made a significant contribution to their local or regional Storytelling community and/or have used Storytelling to make a significant contribution to the larger community in which they live.
Here are some of the more important ways I’ve been engaged with the worldwide storytelling community.
Northeast Storytelling (NEST)
* 2018-2024: President, Vice President, Trustee
Healing Story Alliance (HSA)
* 2023-Present: Treasurer, Board member
Artists Standing Strong Together (ASST)
* 2020-2023: Board Member
National Storytelling Network (NSN)
* 2018-Present: member
Story Crossroads
* 2019-Present: corporate member
Storytelling Association of California
* 2020-Present: member
Federation of Asian Storytellers
* 2024-Present: member
Transformational Storytelling School
* 2011 – Present: Founder
* https://TransformationalStorytelling.org/
Stories for Healing:
* 2020-2021: hosted video series with 50 storytellers who told 77 stories
* https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUkasJNdRpCEPLEgtvCaoCcLZ9txqU0rD
Storytelling Matters
* 2018-2022: Podcast with storytellers telling and discussing their tales and process
* https://storytellingmatterspodcast.com/
International Storytelling Festival, Marrakech, Morocco – invited storyteller (in person)
* February, 2023
* January, 2025
Diving Deeply into Stories
* 2020-2023: month-long in-depth workshops with storytellers from different traditions.
- “African Stories” – with Laura Simms and Titi Ogunnaike – November / December 2020
- “Dream Stories” – with Laura Deal – January 2021
- “Mexico and its Stories” – with Valentina Ortiz – February 2021
- “Folktales from Hungary” – with Maja Bumberák – January 2021
- “Sky High Tree” – with Maja Bumberák – March 2021
- “Dancing with Death” – with Rebecca Lemaire – March 2021
- “Power of Names” – with Fred Mindlin – April 2021
- “The Mabinogion” – with Jay Leeming – April 2021
- “We Are All Related” – with Hears Crow – July 2021
- “The Riches of Darkness: a Solstice Journey” – with Maja Bumberák – November 2022
- “The Language of Compassion” – with David Heathfield – January 2023
Dancing with Death and Life
* 2022 – 2024: 4 six-week programs with Rebecca Lemaire, focusing on using stories for the journey into dying and living. This also became the book, “Stories of the Heart” (co-authored with Rebecca Lemaire).
- Grief and Loss
- Facing Our Own Death
- Historic Grief
- (Im)mortality