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Healing Community - Slash Coleman

Healing Community is meant to provide participants with a safe space in which to explore their feelings about loss, tragedy and violence. As a result, growth can take place in the areas of personal achievement, self-image, and self-confidence. The curriculum is built around a personal Life Story that each participant creates using one of fourteen themes.
Personal note from the instructor: Although I have a Masters degree in Education, participants don’t connect with me because of my resume, they connect with me because of the personal relationship I have with my curriculum.
When my best friend died five years ago and a month after he died his girlfriend discovered she was pregnant, I began performing my one man storytelling concert, “The Neon Man and Me,” (now a PBS special) as a tribute to his family, I had no idea that the production would eventually lead me back into the classroom as a bereavement educator. So far, the curriculum has been taught to over 10,000 participants at schools, libraries, bereavement organizations and children's hospitals.