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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 at SL Public Library, 13 October 2006

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.

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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."

Topics Covered:

  • HOW STORIES HELP SOOTHE ANXIETY
  • MAKING SENSE OF A TUMULTUOUS WORLD
  • HOW THE STORIES WE TELL SHAPE OUR WORLD-AND YES, WE ALL TELL STORIES
  • LAURA SHARES STORIES WITH US SO WE CAN EXPERIENCE IT FOR OURSELVES

THE POWER OF STORY TO RESTORE OURSELVES AND THE WORLD: Opportunities to deepen and expand your storytelling

The new individualized
Storytelling Mentor Program
designed and supported by Laura Simms
ten online sessions - ten personal assignments -
work at your own time - two group podcasts
deepen and expand your storytelling
We are living in unprecedented times of danger and awakening of profound compassion. The Mentor Program individually supports storytellers - beginners or long time practitioners - those working with personal story, traditional retellings, or a combination of both.
Each teller works with a single traditional tale. Personal stories are part of our work.
The first half of the mentor program is dedicated to learning to prepare a story for profound participation. We gain skills in how to uncover and bring to light the inner world of a story - that which is embedded in image and event . How the story comes to life between teller and listeners hangs on these discoveries.
In the second half of the mentor program we gain genuine skills for performance with impact. f you have a story that you would like to enrich, realize into powerful presentation, or have dreamed of enlivening your storytelling skills with spirit, meaning and significance The Laura Simms Mentor Program provides a step by step leap into the unique aspects of narrative engagement. Given the dilemma of the world today we can tell a story that transforms listeners' minds and hearts beyond content and interpretation. This is the path of the storyteller as healer, peace maker, climate change warrior, and true educator.
Few storytellers have developed a path that is at once practical, inspiring and contemplative and dynamic

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.

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