Latin American: Be Wise Go Kind 2023 – TALK 2: Opening to Awe Through Storytelling

This talk was August 17 at 5:30 pm PDT. Please join us for the upcoming talks. You can find an overview here. You can also register here for the entire series and get access to the recording of this talk.

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Laura Simms’ accolades and accomplishments are simply too lengthy to list in their entirety, but the heart of the award-winning storyteller, recording artist, author, dharma teacher, and international humanitarian’s storied career can be summed up in three words: compassion in action. 

Dedicated to the healing properties of stories, Laura’s cutting-edge performance style bridges ancient oral tradition with poetic narrative and performance art. Among other initiatives, she founded A Center for Engaged Storytelling and the Gaindeh Project, an international enterprise that involves storytelling, creativity, meditation and reconciliation for individuals and communities. She currently guides New York Central Park’s iconic program, The Hans Christian Andersen Storytelling Center.

A senior teacher of Shambhala Training and Dharma Art, Laura believes in the medicine of storytelling, engaging mythic stories in service to individual transformation. Committed to spirituality, healing, education, women’s issues, human rights, and working with children, she leads ongoing storytelling workshops and has taught at New York University and Naropa University. Laura is an author of multiple recordings and books, including the book, Our Secret Territory: The Essence of Storytelling, and has been a writer and contributing editor for Parabola Magazine since 1996.

Learn more about Laura Simms

This second talk Opening to Awe through Storytelling with Laura Simms is on Thursday, August 17, at 5:30 pm Pacific Daylight Time (PDT). 

Timeline and recordings

This talk is part of the complete Be Wise Go Kind: Awaken Awe series, featuring a new talk every two weeks. You can find an easy overview of the series here. Following the series of talks, there will be a day-long experiential program with special guests, at Nalanda West in Seattle and online.

Recordings of the talks will be made available until Thursday, December 14, 2023. 

Pricing

This talk:

$ 7 – Standard ticket
$ 15 – Sponsor ticket (this helps us offer scholarships to those in need)

You can also register for the complete series:

$ 36 – Standard ticket
$ 50 – Sponsor ticket (this helps us offer scholarships to those in need)

If you are curious about all the different talks, please find an easy overview here. 

Scholarships

If none of these price options are accessible to you, please know we still want you to attend! Thanks to the generous offerings of our many supporters around the world, we are able to make this, and many more, programs accessible to all regardless of their financial situation. If you’re in need of a scholarship, please click here to access our scholarship page and fill in the form to request a scholarship.