Insights – Snapshot Stories

Meet members making a global impact through narrative healing and support initiatives.

Mindworks in Conversation featuring Rita Basuray, PhD | Reimagining Art and Narrative Practice After Retirement

Discover how narrative practice gave new life to Rita Basuray’s lifelong passion for visual art. 

Mindworks in Conversation featuring Maya Sorini | Poetry as a Lifeline Through Pain, Memory, and Medicine’s Moral Complexity

 Discover how narrative practice and poetry help Maya Sorini, MD, navigate pain, memory, and the moral complexity of medicine in this powerful Mindworks in Conversation episode.

Marissa Spear

Radical Histories, Radical Bodies: Marissa Spear on Narrative Practice at the Intersection of Disability and History

Marissa Spear brings a tapestry of experiences to narrative practice—she’s a writer with a disability historian, YA author, program evaluator, and former dancer from Northwest Arkansas. Her journey has been shaped by personal illness, political inquiry, academic research, a deep embodied commitment to health justice, cultural storytelling, and the radical possibilities of narrative.

Martie McNabb

Small Objects, Big Stories: Legacy Artist Curates Healing and Connection through “Show & Tales”

Think back to your childhood school days of show and tell—what are you holding? What is it story? Standing in front of your class with a favorite toy, seashell, or souvenir and sharing the story behind it revealed a piece of yourself and connected you with your classmates.

Leslie Burrs Mindworks in Conversation

Mindworks in Conversation with Leslie Savoy Burrs - Composer, Flutist, Educator

🎵 Leslie Savoy Burrs - award-winning composer, flutist, and educator - joins Narrative Mindworks for a powerful conversation on the role of music in storytelling, healing, and cultural legacy.

When I Chop Onions, I Think of My Female Ancestors

At 30, Mindworks member Salvena Nissan began learning to cook and discovered a powerful connection to her Mountain Jewish heritage and the women in her family who came before her.

Writing Bad in Dublin

Writing Bad In Dublin

Editor-in-Chief Mary Beth Sammons reflects on her recent trip to Ireland for the Dublin Writer’s Workshop - and how embracing imperfection shaped a deeply personal writing journey.

Mindworks in Conversation featuring Dr. Andre Lijoi | Integrating Faith and Narrative in Modern Medical Practice

 How can narrative practices and spiritual presence reshape modern medicine? In this powerful conversation, Dr. Andre Lijoi reflects on the intersection of faith, deep listening, and compassionate care- offering a vision of healing that goes far beyond clinical skill.

Remembering Mama: How I Learned to Listen

My mother Frances had a life shaped by sorrow. Her mother died when she was just eight, a loss too large for such a small girl. On her sixteenth birthday, she learned that the man she called father was not her biological one. That revelation split her world in two.

A New Kind of Narrative: How One Seasoned Storyteller is Igniting Social Change

Meet Dr. Valerie L. Williams-Sanchez, A Visionary Storyteller Rewriting What Representation Looks Like

Once upon a time in her Grandma Evie’s tiny kitchen in Southern California, a curious and bright-eyed girl named Valerie and her grandmother played Scrabble, discussed “big” ideas, and embarked on myriad adventures in their imaginations to museums, galleries and gardens. It was in the heart of this special and magical bond that a young Valerie developed a love of stories.

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