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SUMMARY:Story Medicine Workshop: Healing the White Body
DESCRIPTION:Saturday February 15\, 2025\, 10:00-11:30AM ET\, cost $30 \nThe class will be held in a Private West Asheville Location\n(details will be shared after registration) \nIn this workshop you will have the opportunity to: \n\nConnect with Nature as a resource for learning and healing.\nAcknowledge harmful aspects of whiteness while releasing shame that inhibits your ability to heal and learn.\nBe patient and gentle with yourself as you confront the patterns of whiteness held in your body.\nConnect to indigenous wisdom through your own ancestors and other world traditions.\n\nInstructor – Dave Hamilton\n \n \nDave is a licensed touch professional specializing in trauma healing. He is now on the path to becoming a Certified Story Medicine Teacher. \nEmail Dave with questions: dsjhamilton@gmail.com \nSee more about our programs and offerings at www.storymedicineworldwide.com. \nRegister
URL:https://storymedicineworldwide.com/healing-services-event/story-medicine-workshop-healing-the-white-body/
LOCATION:North Carolina
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SUMMARY:Introduction to Story Medicine: Current Events in America
DESCRIPTION:Image by Freepik \nFeeling anxious\, afraid\, angry\, and powerless about the state of America and the world? Find healing\, community\, and the medicine within you. Join us for a powerful opportunity to experience Story Medicine!\nStory Medicine Worldwide presents…\nCurrent Events in America\nFriday\, May 9\, 2025\, 6:30-8:30 pm – Cost $43\nThis workshop will provide a space for healing and processing current events. Participants will learn about the Story Medicine modality utilizing ceremony\, group learning\, and writing. Conducted in white space\, we use a story-centered\, indigenous practice of word medicine where participants heal without burdening people of color.\n\nAttendance is limited; enrollment closes May 2\, 2025.\nInstructor – Heidi Wood\, LCSW\, Certified Story Medicine Teacher\nThe class will be on Zoom – the Zoom link will be provided before start time.\nQuestions? Email us at storymedicineworldwide@gmail.com \nSee more about our programs and offerings at:\nwww.storymedicineworldwide.com \nRegister
URL:https://storymedicineworldwide.com/healing-services-event/story-medicine-workshop-current-events-in-america/
LOCATION:North Carolina
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SUMMARY:Story Medicine for Racial Healing: Parent Edition
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, May 24\, 2025\, from 12:00 to 6:00 pm ET\, cost $75 \nThe racial healing workshop is intended to practice the Story Medicine modality. Participants investigate the social and personal impact of America’s racist history while focusing on raising race-conscious children. Conducted in white space\, we provide practical tools for white parents of young children\, using a story-centered\, indigenous practice of word medicine where participants will heal without burdening people of color. \nAttendance is limited; enrollment closes May 17\, 2025. \nInstructor – Heidi Wood\, LCSW\, Certified Story Medicine Teacher \nThe class will be on Zoom – the Zoom link 
will be provided before the start time. \nQuestions? Email us at heidi.storymedicineworldwide@gmail.com \nSee more about our programs and offerings at www.storymedicineworldwide.com. \nRegister
URL:https://storymedicineworldwide.com/healing-services-event/story-medicine-for-racial-healing-parent-edition-2/
LOCATION:North Carolina
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SUMMARY:Story As Legacy with Meta Commerse
DESCRIPTION:Leicester Library presents:\nSTORY AS LEGACY\nWith META COMMERCE \nSaturday\, July 19\n2-5 pm\nDid you know that the secret power of your life is living in your story? This writing workshop will name and explore some of the basic gifts of story. We will shine light on the love\, lessons\, and value for our lives and those of our loved ones\, all contained in memory\, waiting to be tapped. \nJoin Meta Commerse\, author of the memoir Womaning\, for this in-depth conversation deeply rooted in Appalachia. \nThis class is FREE\, but space is limited\, and registration is required. Participants should bring a pen and notebook or paper. \nTo register\, scan the QR code\, or visit tinyurl.com/story0719 \n \nMeta Commerce is a former professor of History and English\, award-winning author\, and elder healer. She is a word medicine woman in the Southern Appalachian tradition inherited from her grandmother. Her texts include five books\, essays\, newspaper articles\, one stage play\, with more art and vocalizing to come. A graduate of Goddard College in Vermont\, Meta is founder and CEO of Story Medicine Worldwide\, where she developed healing/learning experiences addressing issues of race\, age\, and gender.
URL:https://storymedicineworldwide.com/healing-services-event/story-as-legacy-with-meta-commerse/
LOCATION:Leicester Library\, 1561 Alexander Rd\, Leicester\, North Carolina\, 28748
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SUMMARY:Crone Talk • Crone Truth • Crone Stories
DESCRIPTION:With Meta Commerse\nSaturday\, August 23\, 202510 am – 2 pmSt. James Episcopal Church in Black Mountain\, NC\n\n\n\nJoin us for this Story Medicine workshop! It’s an inspirational healing experience designed especially for elder women\, one of our most underserved groups in America. \n\n\n\nThis half-day workshop is $60/person. Scan the QR Code to register: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOr contact the parish office at 828-669-2754. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMeta Commerse is a Crone on a mission. She is an author and speaker on transformative subjects near and dear to the heart of today’s world. A graduate of Goddard College\, she earned an MA in African American Studies and an MFA in Creative Writing. She has been listening closely to previously untold stories sine 1991. Meta has successfully developed healing programs\, classes\, and workshops for audiences in Asheville\, NC since 2010. She is Founder and CEO of Story Medicine Worldwide\, a company dedicated to community wellness through racial healing.
URL:https://storymedicineworldwide.com/healing-services-event/crone-talk-crone-truth-crone-stories/
LOCATION:St. James Episcopal Church\, 424 W State Street\, Black Mountain\, NC\, 28711\, United States
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SUMMARY:Local Author Panel
DESCRIPTION:Leicester Library\nLeicester Meeting Room\nThursday\, October 2\, 2025\n6:00pm–8:00pm\nJoin us for an evening celebrating  our local writing community with three very different local authors.  You’ll hear excerpts from Meta Commerse’s memoir Womaning\,  Mountain Xpress editor Thomas Calder’s novel A Wind Under the Door\, and poetry from Nancy Dillingham’s collection After Helene. \n\n\nEach author will share selections from their books as well as some of their story of writing and putting their work out into the world. \nThis local author panel is the first of a series of panels that celebrate and explore the inspirations\, experiences\, and finished works of writers across Buncombe County. \nJoin us on November 6 and December 4 for more local author readings at the Leicester Library. \nThis event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be provided. \n\nLeicester Library\n1561 Alexander Road\nLeicester\, NC 28748\n (828) 250-6480  \n\n\nContact Info\n Email:   anna.booraem@buncombenc.gov \n(828) 250-6495
URL:https://storymedicineworldwide.com/healing-services-event/local-author-panel/
LOCATION:Leicester Library\, 1561 Alexander Rd\, Leicester\, North Carolina\, 28748
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