Welcome to
Healing Story Alliance
Healing Story Alliance supports storytelling as a healing art. We provide dynamic programming and online resources to promote the healing of self, community, society, and the Earth. We welcome anyone into our circle who is interested in the healing power of story to bring about positive change. We foster collaborations with other groups and organizations who share our mission. We keep our mission central to all public programming, and resource offerings. Healing Story Alliance Inc. is a non-profit 501 c 3 cultural arts organization
UPCOMING PROGRAMS
Next OARS in the Water
Wednesday, Feb 25th
7:00pm-8:30pm EST
Hosted by Sara deBeer & Pat Coffie
Theme: Figuring Things Out
Have you ever wished that life came with an instruction manual? We all know that it doesn’t! Each of us has had to think on our feet to find a way to meet a challenge. Join us to celebrate the joy we feel when we succeed in figuring something out!
Social Justice in Action:
Stories of Courage & Resistance
March 8th
7:00 pm-8:30 pm EDT
Can’t attend in real time? No Problem!
All registrants will receive a link to watch the recording.
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.