The Great Remembering with Laura Simms - VIDEO

STORIES THAT HEAL THE HEART IN TROUBLED TIMES “Laura has a spellbinding way of leading listeners into the heart of a story that makes it impossible not to follow” -Chicago Tribune Laura Simms is an internationally acclaimed storyteller, writer, and educator advocating engaged storytelling as compassionate action for personal and community transformation. Laura weaves a brilliant combination of personal narrative with fairytale and myth. Based in New York City, she continues to perform, teach, coach and give keynote addresses worldwide. THE GREAT REMEMBERING  In each of three sessions, a mythic story has been told.  The Great Remembering is the radical and needed function of reciprocal imaginative engagement with story told. It renders storytelling as transmission: a means of restoration of our heart’s innate wisdom and joy, and the healing recollection of interdependence with each other, the earth, all beings and the invisible spirits we have forgotten.  The most powerful aspect of storytelling today is more than the meaning of content alone.  During the story, and afterwards, Laura will invite comments, insights, images, and personal stories as a means of opening the efficacy of the story for our world today.    SHE WHO BRINGS PEACE TO THE WORLD is based on a Romanian epic fairytale a journey to restore the feminine that has been kidnapped from her place of generative power and compassion.  THE ROBE OF LOVE, Kaftan el Hub, is a remarkable spiritual love story based on a tale told in the markets of Morrocco. A girls’quest for her heart’s desire, and the way of the opening of the heart.  HANS, MY HEDGEHOG is a strange and marvelous Grimm’s tale retold. The birth of a monstrous child, half boy, half hedgehog, leads to the actuality of genuine leadership in the world. Each of the 3 VIDEO sessions are 90 minutes long.  Total Watching Time - Four and 1/2 Hours