Our lives are shaped by the stories we hear and our success depends on the stories we’re told. The stories we hear can empower, inspire and transform our lives. When we tell stories, we build connections and facilitate healing within ourselves.
At My Life Is Art, we use storytelling for social-emotional learning and are excited to announce that we’ll be taking our monthly storytelling series online. We invite you to join us where we welcome members of the My Life Is Art community, who’ll share their unique and thought-provoking stories, and take questions from one another and participants.
Time: Sunday June 28 at 2pm Eastern time
Duration: Approximately 90 minutes
* During the event, we will feature a live Q & A - feel free to submit questions beforehand to tania@mylifeisart.org
Storytelling for social-emotional learning takes place the last Sunday of every month, and will continue via zoom online conferencing until further notice.
Nhial Deng - Head of the Refugee Youth Peace Ambassadors
Nhial Deng is a South Sudanese refugee living in Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya. He was born and raised in Ethiopia where his father moved to more than fifty years ago during the Sudan Civil War.
He is passionate about the Sustainable Development Goals as a key to transforming our world and his work revolves around advocacy, communication, quality education, policy-making, peacebuilding, gender equality, and social entrepreneurship. He firmly believes that young displaced people like himself have a significant role to play towards building a more just, peaceful, inclusive, secure, and sustainable world.
Nhial embraces the power of communication to change how people think about refugees and help shape narratives around the refugee crisis. He will be sharing his story of hope, struggle, and how he triumphs over his trauma to transform his life and support his community.
Neary Heng - Founder of nearyheng.com
Neary Heng spent her early years in child labor, working in the Killing Fields, during the genocide Khmer Rouge communist regime in Cambodia. At 5 years old, all her freedoms were ripped off from her.
She survived living through war and refugee camps and eventually arrived in America speaking no English, and with no education, being raised by a poor, single mother who was working as a farmer. She found her way into corporate America, but after 17 years decided she had enough and made a shift to do what she wants.
So she created nearyheng.com. This is her virtual home where entrepreneurs come for inspiration, tools, strategies and to see behind the scenes as Neary builds her online and brand business from scratch.
Neary's passion has become provoking amazing business owners who want more and give more to humanity to enjoy TRUE freedoms, peace of mind, living harmonious life and to expose the hidden compassion of entrepreneurs through storytelling.
Hosted by Emmanuel Jal
From his start in life as a child soldier in the war-torn region of Southern Sudan in the early 1980s, Emmanuel Jal has come through huge personal struggles to become a successful and acclaimed recording artist and peace ambassador now living in Toronto, Canada.
Emmanuel Jal now shares his story for social-emotional learning.