The power of story: Susan Conley at TEDxDirigo
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- čas přidán 27. 06. 2012
- Susan Conley is a writer, a teacher and a co-founder of The Telling Room, a creative writing lab in Portland that believes in the power of stories to transform students' lives and change communities. Susan served as the executive director of The Telling Room for its first two years of life before moving to China, where she wrote a memoir titled The Foremost Good Fortune (Knopf, 2011). This book chronicles the years Susan, her husband and two young boys lived in Beijing, learned Mandarin, set out on The Hunt for the Greatest Dumpling in China, and contended with Susan's cancer diagnosis. The book was excerpted in The New York Times Magazine and The Daily Beast and was voted a Goodreads' Choice Award Winner for Best Travel and Outdoor Books of 2011.
Susan has been the recipient of two MacDowell Colony residencies, a Breadloaf Writer's Fellowship and a Massachusetts Arts Council Grant. Maine Today Media gave Susan a 2011 "Greatest Women of Maine" Award. A graduate of Middlebury College and San Diego State University, Susan has taught creative writing and literature seminars at Emerson College, as well as at Harvard's Teachers as Scholar's Program. She continues to teach all flavors of writing workshops at The Telling Room and has a novel forthcoming from Knopf in the spring of 2013. Susan lives in Portland with her husband, Tony Kieffer, and their two boys ages 9 and 11, who are avid story tellers themselves and not at all sick of dumplings.
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Found your talk, Susan, by chance - how lucky for me! Thank you for sharing - storytelling means much to me too. Hope all continues to go well in The Telling Room. All the very best, Susanna
Listening is a leadership art - thanks for modeling that silent skill in your talk - it's a gift of the heart. "He saw us, he heard us, and we worked harder because of it."
What a beatiful, touching and inspiring testemony, Susan Conley! Thank you many times!
it changed my mind. I was a silent girl, as of now i understand that telling a story not only raising your voice but also sharing your experience
Susan has a very calming voice
I stumbled across this talk tonight while procrastinating after struggling with a writing piece all afternoon. Awesome talk, filled with fantastic anecdotes and stories. Thank you.
Her 4 year-old son's comment to her about flying away from the pain like a pink butterfly made me cry.
Thanks for sharing your story. Your words are inspiring and hopeful.
I'm finding my way in running a career in video production, filled with technical and piles of admin that causes me to question my direction & ability. BUT as I have had the light shine while I listened to Susan Conley's story, I'm motivated to start wring my story of this process and thus make sense of who I am. Thank you TEDx & @Susan Conley
I was so focused on the research you cited, I forgot to tell you how inspiring your talk is! I loved it!
A great moving speech .. I'm getting now out of bed n first thing to do is im gonna write why i came here ( america ) ... Thanks
Fantastic talk, really captures what I'm all about.
Thank You! You have inspired me deeply and your gift of story telling in this talk really reached my heart.
What she's doing is amazing, we need to help the less privilaged by not leaving them behind, that is the only way we will truly progress
Wonderful calm voice and impressive story
Amazing!
thanx a ton Susan
Beautiful ❤️
Good job, Susan!
motivational speech !
I think she is very polite, kind and friendly 🌸
I wish her Islam and paradise 🧡
I just finished your Paris book which was incredible and painful, cathartic and inspirational... you are carving such a beautiful path...=^..^=
Nice.
well, we have the bus rides in common.
she is really pretty.
hey there my fellow multicultural art peers
How a light skinned lady gives up on Michael to find fulfillment in other cultures until cancer gives her permission to fulfill herself... if only she dares.
this is pretty boring
If this is boring, then what is not for you?
"... taking risks on the page." The nonsensical assertion has no meaning. You need an editor.
Ye pretty boring mate
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