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Storytelling as Medicine: The Art and Practice of Healing Through Voice

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July 26, 2025
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
EST

Date: TBD

Event Format: 

ZOOM
FREE

Our stories are medicine. Our voices are vessels of healing.

In this Healing Circle, we invite you into the sacred practice of storytelling—a tradition as old as our ancestors and as vital as breath. Through personal narrative, communal reflection, and the rhythm of music, we explore storytelling not as performance, but as a pathway to wholeness.

Whether whispered, written, sung, or shared, our stories carry the wisdom of survival, joy, grief, and transformation. Together, we’ll create space to listen deeply, speak truth, and explore the ways storytelling heals both the individual and the collective.

This is a space where you don’t need to be “a writer” or “a speaker”—just a human being, willing to share and witness with tenderness.

This Healing Circle offers:

  • Guided storytelling prompts and reflective practice

  • The healing power of music, rhythm, and voice

  • A supportive space to reclaim silenced parts of your story

  • Collective ritual to honor memory, imagination, and truth-telling

Whether you’re finding your voice or simply want to hold space for others, you are welcome here.

Come as you are. Leave affirmed, witnessed, and reminded that your voice is sacred.

  • Thulani DeMarsay, PhD

    Thulani is the visionary founder and Chief Impact Officer of Sankofa Institute. As a person in long-term recovery, she is deeply committed to supporting others on their journey toward recovery. A seasoned facilitator, Thulani excels in group dynamics and in creating experiential learning environments that fosters individual and group transformation.

    For nearly a decade, Thulani served as a senior facilitator and consultant for the Bureau of Substance Addiction Services (BSAS), where she delivered training programs, provided mentorship, and coached the statewide facilitation team. She also developed comprehensive training materials and played a key role in the creation of the statewide recovery coach learning community. Additionally, Thulani served as the lead consultant for the Recovery Education Collaborative (REC) in Boston, MA where she was responsible for strategic planning, project oversight, workplan development and DEI initiatives.