2025-05-14T15:27:49-07:00 2024-12-31 990EZ 2024-01-01 113831703 TELLING MY STORY TELL 6037278233 PO Box 794 Wilder VT 05088 John Steidl Treasurer 6037278233 2025-05-13 1 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X https://tellingmystory.org/ X X 88483 X 70164 18319 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 88483 0 0 0 79338 0 182 5475 84995 3488 18857 0 22345 18857 22345 0 0 0 0 18857 22345 0 0 18857 22345 Telling My Story is a non-profit organization that breaks down walls between socially isolated individuals and their communities through collaborative creative engagement. We use theater and the arts as a medium for social reflection and relationship building. Our programs develop self-awareness and communication skills with populations behind visible and invisible social walls such as those created by incarceration, addiction and poverty. Through writing and performing, people behind walls are empowered to reclaim their own voices and strengths. Telling My Story at CoSI: Being with Others in Wonder and Awe was a program run for the workers of the CoSI (Church of Safe Injection) organization in Lewiston, ME. From January until March of 2024, the group met with Pati Hernández twice a week for 21/2 hour sessions. By practicing listening, speaking and withholding judgment in the group, the participants built and strengthened relationships based on trust, communication, and dialogue. We did activities that brought us together in the effort to dismantle the visible and invisible walls of preconception and bias that surround us, which many times we actively and/or passively help to create and maintain. Throughout our time together we focused on strengthening the community to empower the work the organization does providing the services to a community that is so invisible to our society. At the end, the group shared testimonials, wrote a manifesto, and built a powerful Talking Wall that was on display for many months in their space. 0 18300 In June 2024, Marta Ceroni ran a Telling My Story workshop in Norwich, VT focused on the challenges of housing insecurity in the Upper Valley. Participants included community member with personal experience of homelessness as well as those who provide direct support services of some kind. The workshop culminated in a public performance at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Norwich. 3000 14300 In October 2024, Emily Eisner ran a story-telling program in Pomfret, VT focused on stories from the Covid-19 pandemic. The program involved a number of group creative activities and discussions about individual experiences with the Covid-19 pandemic. The program culminated in a public presentation of the stories and a community conversation about our pandemic stories with audience members. 1000 3860 36460 Emily Eisner President 4 0 0 0 John Steidl Treasurer 4 0 0 0 Ivy Schweitzer Secretary 4 0 0 0 Angela Hernandez Director 2 0 0 0 Kim Knowlton-Young Director 2 0 0 0 Maddie Levangie Director 2 0 0 0 Laura DiPiazza Director 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 John Steidl PO Box 794 Wilder VT 05088 6037278233 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 7165 27773 65560 40559 70164 211221 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7165 27773 65560 40559 70164 211221 101136 110085 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 211221 55460 0.52118 0.52753 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Includes financial assistance for vulnerable program participants and other miscellaneous program expenses