HSA Presents OARS in the Water: Looking to Your North Star
Hosted by Penny Post & Galen Brandt

Wednesday December 11 at 7:00-8:30pm EST
Online - Entry with Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84757183292?pwd=WENjdm53c3hRb0owQmZuK045M0FKQT09

What offers you refuge and reassurance — brings you soul-satisfying happiness? Maybe some form of social mission guides you. Perhaps contemplating a painting, creating a story, cultivating a garden, celebrating a winning game lightens your spirit. Together let’s explore what gives you joy.

About our Hosts for December 11th

Penny Post has a BA in English from Wellesley College, and an MFA in creative writing from Lesley College. For 30 years she told stories and gave workshops in the business world all over southern California through Toastmasters, coaching clients in both speaking and writing. Her day job was technical writing. In 2007, she came home to New England, earned an MFA, and now teaches storytelling at her senior residence community. She is a member of both the Healing Story Alliance programming Committee and the HSA Advisory Committee.

Galen R. Brandt is a writer, songwriter, singer, and teller of stories. She has been an award-winning composer for Disney, Hasbro, Lorimer, and Little Golden Books ‘n Tapes, a new product marketing expert for Fortune 500 companies and the Franklin Mint. She has been a corporate speechwriter, a conference convener and speaker, a gatherer of indigenous songs, a singer in innumerable wonderful bands that nobody ever heard of, and a cultural journalist for a wide and wild mix of publications. She pioneered the exploration and use of interactive virtual reality technologies as an alternative healing modality in live performance, arts and education, and especially in the area of special needs. She’s now writing two musicals — “The Piglet Opera” and “The Memory Box.” Galen serves on the HSA Advisory Committee, the HSA Programming Committee, and is chair of the OARS in the Water program.