Wisdom Coming and Going
We all learn from the past and we teach to the future. Come and hear master storyteller Gail Rosen share wisdom stories from many traditions around the world and some from wise ones close to home. Humorous and moving, entertaining and also thought provoking, Gail shares stories that speak to minds and hearts.
Gail Rosen
Consultant, Facilitator, Educator, Storyteller
Storytelling Performance
From the Inside Out, Tales Along the Path To Healing
Folk tales, literary stories, and personal adventures gleaned from years of working with story as a healing medium. Hear new slants on old tales and insights gained along the way. Journey along, believing in the capacity of story to open doors of possibility within each of us.
In Gratitude
Stories of giving thanks when it’s easy to be grateful and also when we have to look hard for the treasures that are hidden. Thoughtful, thought-provoking and deeply satisfying stories.
For Tomorrow
The Story and Poetry of Hilda Stern Cohen
Gail Rosen crafted this story from lengthy interviews with Hilda Stern Cohen in the two years before her death in 1997. The performance uses many poems by Hilda Stern Cohen as well as the Jewish prayers that were so much a part of her daily life. Gail Rosen has long experience with performing this story, having done so in the United States, Israel, Poland, and Germany—including in Nieder-Ohmen (Mücke), the small town in Hesse where Hilda Stern was born in 1924. Appropriate for middle school, high school and adults.
For more information, see Jewish Storytelling and www.HildaStory.org.
Choose Hope
Since 1998, Gail Rosen has been performing the story of Hilda Stern Cohen, a German-born Holocaust survivor and poet. Telling such a story, speaking the words and experience of another person, turns out to have unexpected power. Gail has discovered more about the story, the telling, and herself through her performances of this moving piece in the United States, Germany, and Israel. In "Choose Hope," Gail shares her own experience of storytelling as a personal, powerful and surprising healing journey, recounting how telling Hilda's story has changed her life and the lives of others.
A small sample of performances and themes.
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Photo by Eve Rennebarth
Photo by Eve Rennebarth
Photo by Murray Levin
Not a week goes by that I don't remember your story or it's message for me. If at any time you should ever question your calling or its effect on your listeners, please hearken to this email. Your story lives in me and through me. Its time of coming was perfect.
Kim Rivers
President, Florida Storytelling Association
Loving, Grieving, Growing
This program was created to support the grieving. It demonstrates storytelling in an applied, healing setting. Stories are woven into a keynote-style presentation honoring the experience of loss. Folktales, literary stories and personal anecdotes hold themes of patience, challenge, change, and comfort, offering metaphors of resiliency and tools for continued hope and growth.
(CD now available! See Recordings/Books.)