Transformational Storytelling

Welcoming the Stranger
2020-02-24 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Participate in a ground-breaking live experience as you craft a story that is uniquely your own while addressing the challenges – and rewards – of welcoming the “other.” Free – but limited to 20 participants.
Register with Eventbrite to receive the zoom link.

Telling Transformational Stories
2019-09-10 19:00 - 21:00 | Zoom
The first class of our Fall 2019 semester. Schedules, readings, and more will be discussed.
Come prepared with the bones of a story that you expect could be transformational.
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Intro to Transformational Storytelling
2019-07-11 20:00 - 21:30
Have a taste of the Transformational Storytelling program – free! We’ll discuss how we learn, why stories work, and some neuroscience as well. Plus some great stories!
Register at the link below. You’ll get the zoom link for the meeting immediately, and a full invitation will arrive shortly thereafter.

Multifaith Study Group
2019-06-18 14:30 - 16:00, 2019-06-04 14:30 - 16:00, 2019-05-21 14:30 - 16:00, 2019-05-07 14:30 - 16:00, 2019-04-23 14:30 - 16:00, 2019-04-09 14:30 - 16:00, 2019-03-26 14:30 - 16:00, 2019-03-12 14:30 - 16:00 and 1 more date | Loyola Jesuit Residence
A closed multi-faith study group including members of the Jewish, Catholic, and Muslim faiths.

Personal Digital Storytelling
2019-04-03 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-03-27 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-03-20 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-03-13 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-03-06 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-02-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Zoom
Do you have a story that means a lot to you? A family legacy, a crisis survived, a moment when you started seeing things differently? Enroll in our six-week online class!
Personal Digital Storytelling provides you with the tools and techniques necessary to tell that story – using your own voice, along with pictures and sounds – in a digital form lasting less than five minutes!
The fee for all six sessions is $200. Your satisfaction is guaranteed: if you’re not completely satisfied after two classes, your fee will be refunded – no questions asked!

Please register here for this exciting opportunity.

Personal Digital Storytelling provides you with the tools and techniques necessary to tell that story – using your own voice, along with pictures and sounds – in a digital form lasting less than five minutes!
Based on techniques developed for over twenty-five years, you’ll be guided through the creation, narration, and audio/visual embellishment of your story for maximum impact. Don’t be mistaken – this is challenging work! But the rewards are great, and you’ll have learned how to render story after story going forward.
Free temporary use of a robust digital editing platform is provided. Come prepared with the idea of a story you’d love to tell, and participate via a PC, Mac or Chromebook. Working online in a small group, you’ll not only craft your own story but share in the experience with a small number of other digital storytellers.

Sharing the Fire
2019-03-31, 2019-03-30, 2019-03-29 | Hotel 1629, 180 Water St, Plymouth, NY, 02360, United States
Sharing the Fire (STF) – the Northeast Storytelling Conference & Festival is the place to come to experience the best tellers in the Northeast. The general public is invited to storytelling concerts. For storytellers and those interested in learning how to tell stories, the weekend of workshops provides unmatched professional and personal development opportunities.

CNY Storytellers Guild
2019-03-24 14:00 - 15:30 | Community Library of Dewitt and Jamesville, 5110 Jamesville Road, Dewitt, NY, 13078, United States
Join the CNY Storytellers for their monthly meeting. Storytellers of all levels of experience and expertise will be able to share their stories, receive constructive feedback, and share tips and tricks of the storyteller’s life. Regular topics such as discovering, creating, refining, and telling stories are discussed.

Transformational Storytelling class
2019-03-19 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom
Finding & Preparing Stories

Chaplain In-Service
2019-03-18 08:30 - 10:00 | Interfaith Works, 1010 James St, Syracuse, NY, 13203, United States
Closed meeting

Lunch & Learn - Jewish Renewal
2019-03-16 12:00 - 13:00 | Congregation Beth Sholom – Chevra Shas, 18 Patsy Ln, Jamesville, NY, 13078, United States
A discussion of the Jewish Renewal movement.

Healing Storytelling Alliance
2019-03-13 21:00 - 22:00
Online meeting of this NSN special interest group.

Transformational Storytelling class
2019-03-05 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom
Christian guest faculty: Rev. Jim Kerr-Whitt

"End of Life" - Screening and Panel Discussion
2019-03-03 13:30 - 17:00 | Weiskotten Hall, 766 Irving Ave, Syracuse, NY, 13210, United States
Special Screening of Documentary End of Life

End of Life, a documentary film that was nominated for the 2018 European Film Awards, will be shown Sunday, March 3, at 2 p.m. in Room NAB 4414B of Upstate Medical University’s Weiskotten Hall, 766 Irving Avenue, Syracuse. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion and reception with the filmmakers, Paweł Wojtasik and John Bruce. The panel will include members of the Syracuse-area hospice, medical, spiritual and social justice communities. The event is free and open to the public.

Wojtasik and Bruce trained to be end-of-life doulas and documented many hours of their interactions with the five people featured in the film, who were each at various stages in the process of dying.

The 2018 New York Film Festival writes, “John Bruce and Paweł Wojtasik’s radiant film takes a respectful and serenely composed look at the very activity, the actual work, of dying for five individuals: Sarah Grossman, the spiritual teacher Ram Dass, Carol Virostek, Doris Johnson, and the artist, writer, and performer Matt Freedman. This is not a film of rhetoric but of concentrated and sustained attention to an area of experience at which we all arrive but from which the living flinch. Bruce and Wojtasik are tuned to a very special and extraordinarily delicate wavelength as artists, and they create a rare form from the silences, the incantatory repetitions, the mysterious repeated gestures, and the communions with the mystery of being enacted by the dying.”

Free parking will be available in the Irving Ave Garage and the Hillside lot. Visit http://parking.syr.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Pad-Map-North-Master-September-2018.pdf for a parking map that also identifies the location of Weiskotten Hall. The film is closed captioned. American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation will be provided for the panel discussion and the reception.

Co-sponsors for this event include the Zen Center of Syracuse, Upstate Medical University’s Spiritual Care Center, the Consortium for Culture and Medicine, SU’s Aging Studies Institute, Hendricks Chapel, the Contemplative Collaborative, and the Burton Blatt Institute’s Interdisciplinary Programs and Outreach Initiative. Media sponsor is WRVO Public Media.

About the film

Leo Goldsmith of Artforum writes, “the filmmakers become not merely observers but caregivers—embedded, and in one scene literally in bed, with their subjects. In this way, the End of Life subtly breaches the boundaries between documentary modes, the real and the fantastic, with a style that alternates (and sometimes collapses) the immediacy of the Sensory Ethnography Lab’s films with a cosmic, even comic surrealism.”

More about the film at www.endoflifeproject.com

About the Co-Sponsors:

The Zen Center of Syracuse offers the profound yet simple practice of meditation to people from all walks of life, thereby making this community a more compassionate and caring place. https://www.zencenterofsyracuse.org/

The Spiritual Care Center of Upstate Medical University provides spiritual support to patients and families in times of crisis and change of health condition. http://www.upstate.edu/spiritualcare/index.php

The Consortium for Culture and Medicine (CCM) is a cooperative interdisciplinary program of Le Moyne College, SUNY Upstate Medical University, and Syracuse University. http://www.upstate.edu/ccm/

The Aging Studies Institute is an all-university institute that coordinates and promotes aging- related research, training, and outreach at Syracuse University. https://asi.syr.edu/

Hendricks Chapel is the diverse religious, spiritual, ethical and cultural heart of Syracuse University that connects people of all faiths and no faith through active engagement, mutual dialogue, reflective spirituality, responsible leadership and a rigorous commitment to social justice. http://hendricks.syr.edu/

Syracuse University’s Contemplative Collaborative supports students, faculty and staff who engage in contemplative practices, as well as teaching strategies, scholarly research, and discourse surrounding these practices, with the goal of cultivating focused attention in ways that foster insight and deepen understanding of complex issues.http://hendricks.syr.edu/services-and- initiatives/contemplative-collaborative.html

The Burton Blatt Institute’s Office of Interdisciplinary Programs and Outreach creates and advances interdisciplinary, intersectional educational programs, research and pedagogy focused on disability justice, identities, cultures and studies. http://bbi.syr.edu/projects/OIPO/index.html

WRVO Public Media is a non-profit, non-commercial, multi-platform news and information service for residents of central and northern New York state and a member station of NPR. https://www.wrvo.org/

Storytelling
2019-02-26 18:30 - 20:00 | Barnes & Noble, 3454 Erie Blvd E, Syracues, NY, 13210, United States

Collaborative Storytelling
2019-02-25 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom
Our monthly online meeting to discuss the pragmatics of storytelling. All storytellers welcome – contact me for an invitation!
