LAURA SIMMS
STORYTELLER
THE STORIES WE TELL: Coming Home to Ourselves in a Tumultuous World
Storyteller Laura Simms weaves together stories and information to address the question of how storytelling builds resilience and how the stories we tell ourselves impact our anxiety. She addresses how to find ease in a world full of pain.
Laura Simms is an award winning performer, writer, and educator advocating storytelling as compassionate action for personal and community transformation. She performs worldwide combining ancient myth and true life story for adult and family audiences.
Laura Simms is an award winning performer, writer, and educator advocating storytelling as compassionate action for personal and community transformation. She performs worldwide combining ancient myth and true life story for adult and family audiences.
Remarkable performances of traditional stories interwoven with personal narrative have earned Laura Simms worldwide recognition and honors since 1968. Laura has created a cutting-edge performance style that bridges ancient oral tradition, poetic narrative and performance art. Her storytelling is meaningful and uncannily entertaining.
Her warmth, depth of understanding, profound effect on listeners, diverse material, humor, dynamic voice and range of characterizations have achieved legendary status.
She brings her expertise to collaborative projects worldwide exploring social issues, peacemaking, healing, education, creativity and community dialogue. Laura teaches ongoing storytelling workshops as performance and compassionate action, the medicine of storytelling, mindfulness-awareness meditation, and individual coaching.
"RESILIENCE IS ACTUALLY THE NATURAL AND PRIMARY RESTORATIVE CAPACITY: IMAGINATION."
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THE POWER OF STORY TO RESTORE OURSELVES AND THE WORLD: Opportunities to deepen and expand your storytelling
This may be the most important book written about storytelling and its benefits in the world today. Our Secret Territory explores the power of storytelling and how it can serve as a tool for compassionate service. The book contains tales from around the world, reflections on the symbolic journeys they express, and stories about Laura’s work with people in need in many countries.
Acclaimed story teller Laura Simms gives us a rich tapestry of tales that unveil the secrets of love in all of its forms. Passionate, riveting, often humorous, these stories of emotional, physical, and spiritual love come from a variety of traditions, including Celtic, Inuit, Persian, Hindu, Jewish, and African. As meaningful today as when they were first told her evocative, retellings of these tales of the mysteries of the heart lead us to many faces and profound requirements of love.
