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Welcome to
Healing Story Alliance


Founded over 25 years ago, Healing Story Alliance is an alliance of artists and practitioners who view storytelling as a healing art. HSA currently offers dynamic programming and online resources that promote healing of the self, society, and the earth. We are no longer a member-based organization requiring dues. We welcome anyone into our circle who is interested in the healing power of story to bring about positive change. Join our new mailing list to keep abreast of our offerings! Join our Listserv to engage in robust conversation on the power of healing story.


Upcoming Events


Can’t attend on the date of the live Zoom event? No problem!
The program will be recorded. If you purchase a ticket you will receive a link to watch the recording at your convenience. 


Kind Stories in Concert

Sunday, October 6, 2024
7:00pm-8:30pm EDT
Hosted by Lee-Ellen Marvin

Join the Healing Story Alliance for a special gathering to share and explore stories of kindness in its many faces and forms. Through folk tales and personal stories, we will dive deeply into multiple experiences of kindness. What is it? How does it impact us and our relationships to ourselves, to each other, to the world? Come and listen to “kind stories” shared by both professional tellers and community members and see what memories of kindness emerge for you.

Register here to Receive a FREE Kind Stories in Concert Zoom Link

Admission is free, although donations are deeply appreciated and help support our programming. Your tax-deductible donation can be made here:
https://square.link/u/d9xbGN2I. Kind Stories events are recorded for later viewing by all registrants.


Wednesday, October 9, 2024
7:00pm-8:30pm EDT
Hosted by Joe Doolittle & Claire Nolan

Theme: Shoulders: Comfort and Solace

OARS in the Water is a facilitated Zoom gathering that meets on the second and fourth Wednesday of the month at 7 pm Eastern Time. The Healing Story Alliance’s OARS in the Water offers a community listening space in which to share the experiences and stories that have emerged in turbulent times.

OARS co-hosts facilitate the evening and provide participants with a warm welcome and a meaningful theme which we hope will be healing, supportive and inspiring.

Format: A typical 90-minute meeting consists of a 20-minute, theme-based opening, followed by 20 minutes in breakout rooms, and then we reassemble for a whole group conversation. Because of the personal nature of this format, HSA does not record the event for later viewing.

Admission is free, although donations are deeply appreciated and help support our programming. Your tax-deductible donation can be made here: https://square.link/u/d9xbGN2I


Listening To Our Anger – Acting from Love
How Healing Story Work Helps

Sunday, November 10, 2024
2:00-5:00 pm EST
Workshop by: Elisa Pearmain

Admission $25 – $75 (pay what you are able)

Anger is an uncomfortable, often taboo, sometimes dangerous, and very necessary emotion. It informs us when our personal needs are not being met, when there is injustice, and when action is required. Anger often covers painful emotions, such as grief, powerlessness, shame, and fear. Understanding how our anger is trying to help us is a crucial step in the forgiveness/healing process. By listening to our anger’s stories with compassion and curiosity, we connect to what is important to us, and live more authentically. 

The program will be recorded. If you purchase a ticket, you will receive a link to watch the recording at your convenience. 
Admission: $25-$75 (pay what you are able)


Write about Healing: An Author Interview Series
featuring Author Noa Baum

Sunday, December 8, 2024
7:00-8:30 pm EDT
Host: Jo Radner

Admission $15

Join us for the third event in a new Healing Story Alliance series where authors are interviewed about their creative writing processes and the healing power of storytelling. Unique among all narrative arts, storytelling engages listeners in a profound way, deepening our understanding of what healing means and how it functions.

Admission is $15 per ticket. The Author Interview Series are recorded for later viewing by all registrants.


NEW! IN CASE YOU MISSED THE EVENT, WE NOW HAVE RECORDINGS AVAILABLE!



NEWS! The Book upon which this concert is based has won a Storytelling World Award!





ABOUT the Healing Story Alliance Website

This website offers resources, guidance and practical applications for storytelling, revealing and reflecting the many facets of healing story in the world today and in the past. In addition to bibliographies, and links, there is a library of articles on Healing Stories and Storytelling. Our acclaimed Journal, Diving in the Moon: Honoring Story, Facilitating Healing, is available from 2013-2017 as an e-journal on the HSA website.

All authored writing on the Healing Story Alliance website is the copyrighted property of its author. These resources are intended for not-for-profit educational use. Any commercial use of resources on this website must be arranged directly with the author of the text or video.

Many are drawn to our site in search of answers or resources for dealing with the pain and tragedy of turbulent current events in the personal, social and global realms. This interest is addressed in our compilations of stories which we encourage you to explore.

  • Healing Treasures: Stories intended to precipitate conversation, and guide teaching and healing with participants.
  • Stories We Live: Personal stories and methods for gathering and applying life experiences as healing references.
  • Stories for Children in Crisis: Compiled by Laura Simms, includes stories, articles, and links, drawn from years of research and professional work with children.
  • Stories for Peace: storytelling in pursuit of peace and understanding.
  • Healing the Earth: featuring stories contributed by storytellers working in environmental settings or on educational projects with an environmental theme.

HSA was a long standing Special Interest Group of the National Storytelling Network. In 2022 it became fiscally sponsored by Story Arts Inc, a NY state 501(c)(3) arts organization dedicated to the fine art of storytelling and to its educational applications. Story Arts is directed by Heather Forest. As a subsidiary project of Story Arts Inc., HSA functioned as a not-for-profit arts organization under Story Arts Inc.’s fiscal umbrella while establishing it’s own not-for-profit organization in New York State. In January 2023 HSA Inc. received IRS recognition as an independent 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. Healing Story Alliance Inc is now an NSN Collaborative Partner.


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