STORYTELLING is a powerful tool for connection, personal transformation, and social justice.
Through creative, energetic, collaborative storytelling workshops and showcases, youth and adults can discover the joy and power of telling their stories, finding healing, hope, connection, and a new understanding of themselves and the world. In turn, they become effective, powerful voices for change.
"I won my first Moth Story Slam in 2016 with a story about being a risk-taker all my life, from breaking both arms riding horses as a kid, to chasing a drug high into back alleys and jail cells and almost into the morgue. People came up to me after the show to share their own stories about addiction and recovery. A new passion was ignited, to use the power of stories and storytelling to bring people together and strengthen communities in the process."
PHOENIX TALES Storytelling Workshops
Phoenix Tales Storytelling uses the art form of personal narrative storytelling as a framework for recovery, growth, change, and healing, particularly for individuals who have experienced significant life events like violence, trauma, loss, major or chronic illness, and mental health or substance use challenges and their allies, helpers, loved ones and caregivers.
Recovery coaching, embodiment, theatre, and storytelling techniques are blended in a unique process that fosters resilience, healing, social-emotional growth, and a deeper connection to self and community. Participants engage in a process of self-reflection and meaning-making while crafting a personal story about a life experience, discovering their authentic voice and reducing both internal and external stigma and shame about their experiences. It is also an effective tool for promotion, advocacy, and social change.
Workshops:
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Can be held virtually or in person.
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Include eight to sixteen hours of class time over two to eight sessions, with the breakdown of the hours being flexible to suit the needs of the organization.
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Can be structured as an ongoing support group with a rolling format.
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Are customized to the needs and goals of the organization and participants.
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Can include a final event to showcase the storytellers if desired.
I’ve facilitated workshops with diverse people and organizations, including:
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Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery
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Boston Medial Center OBAT Team
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Scituate Education Foundation
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Depression-Bipolar Support Alliance of Boston
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First Event National Transgender Conference
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Families For Depression Awareness
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The Multiple Pathways of Recovery Conference
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Creative Outlets at Cape Cod Museum of Art
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South Shore Peer Recovery
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To The Moon And Back
And many more...

In 2019-2020 we partnered with the Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery to train all of their staff and volunteers in Storytelling. We had 26 stories professionally filmed for release, one of which was chosen as a finalist in a film festival.
Click on an image to the right to see what the art of Storytelling can do to help us connect, grow and heal together.


Some of the over 100 people who participated in the Recovery Storytelling workshop at the National Recovery Conference in 2019.


