The Academy for the Love of Learning is excited to announce our one-day collaborative workshop with The Sky Center: The Path Forward in Challenging Times: Building Resilience through the Practice of Awareness. Facilitated by Lisa Faithorn, PhD, Erin, Doerwald, LCSW, CMT-P, Randle Charles, and Grietje Laga, the workshop invites educators, administrators, and service professionals to…
This is the fifth introductory blog post to The Power in Story, our upcoming three-part series exploring learning and transformation through story. Designed and facilitated by Chrissie Orr, co-founder of El Otro Lado and the Institute for Living Story, and Aaron Stern, Academy Founder and President, the series is for people working with story across disciplines and applications and recognize the capacity of…
This is the fourth introductory blog post to The Power in Story, our upcoming three-part series exploring learning and transformation through story. Designed and facilitated by Chrissie Orr, co-founder of El Otro Lado and the Institute for Living Story, and Aaron Stern, Academy Founder and President, the series is for people working with story across disciplines and applications and recognize the capacity of…
This is the third introductory blog post to The Power in Story, our upcoming three-part series exploring learning and transformation through story. Designed and facilitated by Chrissie Orr, co-founder of El Otro Lado and the Institute for Living Story, and Aaron Stern, Academy Founder and President, the series is for people working with story across disciplines and applications and recognize the capacity of…
This is the second introductory blog post to The Power in Story, our upcoming three-part series exploring learning and transformation through story. Designed and facilitated by Chrissie Orr, co-founder of El Otro Lado and the Institute for Living Story, and Aaron Stern, Academy Founder and President, the series is for people working with story across disciplines and applications and recognize the capacity of…
The Academy for the Love of Learning is excited to announce our upcoming three-part series exploring learning and transformation through story: The Power in Story. Designed and facilitated by Chrissie Orr, co-founder of El Otro Lado and the Institute for Living Story, and Aaron Stern, Academy Founder and President, the series is for people working with story…
Academy Founder and President Aaron Stern shares a year end message with emergent Academy news for 2019. Dear Friends, As the year comes to a close, I am writing, as is my annual tradition, to share news of the past year at the Academy and to invite you to join with us in imagining and…
As El Otro Lado embarks on its 10th year, we are delighted to be piloting our new El Otro Lado Schools & Community training program. El Otro Lado brings comprehensive, arts-rich experiences to classrooms, communities, and organizations. The program hosts workshops and trainings throughout the year for the current cohort co-facilitation teams of teachers, community…
Sara Yingling of KRQE News speaks with Acushla Bastible, Director and Co-Founder of Lifesongs, Veteran Billie Russell, and Lifesongs artist Nathan Dunton about the healing experience of storytelling and songwriting and our concert: Homecoming: Songs and Stories of Service on Friday, October 26th at the James A. Little Theatre. “That is the vision of the…
Luke Henley of the Santa Fe Reporter speaks with Acushla Bastible, Director and Co-Founder of Lifesongs, and Lifesongs artists Vanessa Torres McGovern and Nathan Dunton about songwriting with Veterans and our upcoming concert: Homecoming: Songs and Stories of Service on Friday, October 26th at the James A. Little Theatre. “Veterans can feel lost well into their old…
