REMINDER: Saturday's TAAM Workshop - - Opening the Sky: The Path to Listening

[Guest guest]

Therapeutic Arts Alliance Manhattan©

Healing Communities Through Arts and Conversation

Nash, LCAT, Founder/Co-Director     

Wise, ATR-BC, LCAT, Co-Director

 

Opening the

Sky: The Path of Listening

Facilitated

by Simms

Listening is discerning between our assumed ideas and opinions to

hearing what is actually being said. It is a very special kind of

presence that does not deny our assumptions but provides the space for

listening to ourselves as well. This deep access to being in the world

as it is is the key to healing and to individual joy. It is the place

that through patience, trust and compassion allows us to work with

skill and care.

The day will progress from exercises in presence and sharing, to

listening and hearing, to exploring the ways in which we can regard our

own story and self nourishment with strength and confidence. It is the

secret key that opens the space of transformation on a large scale.

We will work with a single folktale to take us throughout the day.

Saturday February 18, 2012

10-5

Judson Memorial Church

239 Street

NYC

 

Professionals: $100

Full-time Students: $50

 

To

Register

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About the

Facilitator:

 

Simms is an award winning performer,

writer, and educator advocating storytelling as compassionate action for

personal and community transformation. She is a Senior Research Fellow for the

International Peace institute at Rutgers University Newark under the auspices

of UNESCO. She performs worldwide for adult and young audiences. As a

spokesperson for storytelling she presents keynotes and workshops in

conferences, villages, schools, universities and community events. She is a member

of the Therapeutic Arts Alliance of Manhattan, and a senior teacher of

Shambhala Buddhist meditation, received the Brimstone Award for Engaged

Storytelling, CHOICE award for best story collection and Sesame Street’s SUNNY

DAYS award for work with children worldwide. She is co-faculty with Terry

Tempest ’ at University of Utah, consults with ETSU’s CANCER STORIES

project, and is spoken word consultant for Foundations, NGOS working in post

disaster and conflicts. She recently appeared at the Newark Peace Summit and

the Conference on World Peace and Values in Monterrey, Mexico. Most recent book

is OUR SECRET TERRITORY: The Essence of Storytelling (Sentient Publications,

June 2011). is the mother of best-selling author Ishmael Beah with whom

she often lectures. also continues her work with TAAM and is currently

designing workshops for dosents at the Tribute Museum of the World Trade Center

site.

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