We adapt Storytime to help groups to achieve their unique goals. The power of sharing our stories and listening to each other impacts individuals and communities on a level deeper than numbers can measure.
In our approach, sharing leads to connection, connection leads to care, and care leads to action. How? When we care, we give more. To each other, to our teams, to our communities, to our world.
We are delighted to introduce you to some of our brilliant collaborators, and invite you to join our global village.
Ukraine Now
We facilitated dozens of unforgettable gatherings for a global community of volunteers, from every possible walk of life, driven to serve the cause. The power of people helping people became the underlying story, and we informed, inspired, and uplifted each other.
AI & Us: A Human Conversation (Series)
With Thaumazo founder and mastermind Daniel Lindenberger, we hosted a biweekly series of passionate online conversations around the felt impacts of AI, expanding into in-person conferences and a crack AI & Us working group, in Vancouver, BC.
Dr Clown Foundation
A week before the NAFHCO annual conference, we connected therapeutic clowns, online, all across North America, to share their singular stories of becoming a clown. We gather semi-annually, to keep this priceless community engaged and growing.
Israel/Palestine: A Live Heart-to-Heart
Shortly after Oct. 7, in collaboration with human rights activist and poet Ehab Lotayef, we brought together Israelis, Palestinians, Muslims, and Jews. Exploring our common humanity, we shared our hearts, and comforted each other.
Anatha fest
Anatha Fest is the largest music and wellness festival in Quebec, featuring renowned international and local artists. To close the 3-day festival, we offered an adapted Storytime to help festival-goers integrate their transformative experience in community.
Transitions
We hosted gatherings to reconnect us to our love of nature through story, and to strengthen and inspire Transitions NDG, part of a non-profit global movement of communities coming together to reimagine and rebuild our world.
Autour du Feu
We built and nurture a bilingual classic Storytime group for conscious youth in Montreal, called Autour du Feu (Around the Fire) , to share their committed voices and grow closer together.
Muslim Storytelling
At Concordia University, with human rights activist and poet Ehab Lotayef, we designed a powerful gathering to connect Muslim to non-Muslim students through the sharing of their stories. In the face of hatred, we grow love.
Teesri Duniya Intercultural Theatre
Modelling the impact art of storytelling, we hosted a riveting Storytime with the team, board, and community leaders of Montreal’s pioneering Teesri Duniya Intercultural Theatre.
Women in Sustainability
We hosted Storytime for a group of women, working in Sustainability & Sustainable Finance, to engage and strengthen their growing network, and enhance their storytelling skills.
BLOOM Festival Quebec
For a conscious community retreat in Quebec, we adapted Storytime to unite participants and support their integration at the end of a powerful weekend, through their unlikely stories of friendship.
Human Data Commons/ParTecK
We hosted an online gathering for Human Data Commons / ParTeck, an innovative tech-for-good community based in BC, Canada. Their stories rocked our world.
Youth groups
We hosted Storytime gatherings, like Montreal’s Jeunesse 2000, to help at-risk youth to connect with themselves and each other, through their stories of challenge and resilience.
AWE Writers’ Exhibition
There is nothing like bringing together a group of strangers connected by their passion for story, to share their own. Writers and readers, united for “a once-in-a-lifetime experience that I cherish.” (Katherine M, participant)
Bali Art Hub
Storytime traveled to East Bali for two pop-up gatherings in an emerging Art Hub. Under the stars, Bali expats seeking community shared their stories of home and discovered, despite our different definitions, that we all want the same thing.
NDG/CDN Community Council
Community organizations are the backbone of our world, and we are proud to work with Quebec’s largest borough’s council and the fabulously diverse communities they serve.
The Motherlode
In collaboration with Filmmaker/Writer Natalie Karneef, we created a global Storytime group online, for people who identify as women, to share stories about the complexities and challenges of our mothers and motherhood.
South Asian Women’s Group
This Storytime for a shared interest group had us tell stories about arranged marriages and finding love, and we were amazed and delighted by the depth we discovered.
NDG Climate Café
It was a deep thrill to facilitate Storytime with climate activists and committed citizens. We rose above our despair and focused on our love of the natural world, to inspire, uplift and give us strength for the fight of our lives.
Asheville Relief
Hurricane Helene and Milton are no match for the exciting, decentralized movement of people helping people emerging all over the world. Storytime is there to help connect, inspire and uplift these passionate, ad hoc communities of care.
Orchard of Pomegranates
We offered online Storytime for the global community of richly talented singers and musicians, Orchard of Pomegranates, founded by the inimitable Ayelet Rose Gottlieb.
Turning strangers into community
Fundamentally we are creatures of story, and when the environment and framing is right, the simple act of sharing our personal stories with each other is connective and transformative at the deepest levels. Storytime achieves this, time and again, turning strangers into a community, and a community into friends. The act of being heard compassionately, and of hearing with love those with stories different from our own is a key to fixing much of what’s troubling in the world.
Daniel Lindenberger, Founder of Thaumazo, Banging Rocks, Vancouver, Canada
The Village 