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		<title>Bilingual Storytelling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Susan O&#8217;Halloran and Edie Armstrong perform at Plainfield School District this summer for K-5th graders. June 30, 2011 Bilingual story tellers teach value of cultural communications “Mama” Edie Armstrong, dressed in African garb told a cute story about a family of mice who encountered a big, scary green-eyed cat while on a family picnic. Armstrong [...]]]></description>
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		<title>College Speaking on Diversity and Inclusion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had the chance to perform in front of college students on the themes of Diversity and Inclusion. I love their responses! I used stories as THE BEST WAY to discuss difficult topics. In the breakout sessions, we worked on communicating across lines of difference. That&#8217;s what the one student is referring to &#8211; she [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://susanohalloran.com/college-speaking-on-diversity-and-inclusion-905</link>
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		<title>Bring a Harmony Day to Your School</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I stopped by a school where we had presented a Harmony Day: a multicultural assembly with storytellers, Antonio Sacre, Michael D. McCarty, Anne Shimojima and moi, Susan O&#8217;Halloran, followed by breakout sessions on race, immigration, cyber bullying, Japanese American internment camps and other family stories and leaving a legacy of inclusion. Here&#8217;s what one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speaking at Youth Diversity Conference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had the pleasure of giving the keynote address at the Fenwick, Oak Park/River Forest and Trinity High Schools&#8217; Youth Conference on Tuesday, March 8, 2011. The student leaders were wonderful and following the keynote I was able to do breakout sessions on Valuing Difference Religions.]]></description>
		<link>http://susanohalloran.com/900-900</link>
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		<title>Why Use a Story Coach?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes! Even the best storytellers rely on coaches to help edit their new stories before they perform them in public. Syd came over to my house this week to work on a new story that he is going to perform at the Celtic Knot in Evanston, IL at 8 pm on March 20, 2011. It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://susanohalloran.com/why-use-a-story-coach-890</link>
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		<title>Taking Time to Create Community</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To me, one of the most serious causalities of our polarized election season is the lack of community. I spent a couple of months in Bali, Indonesia several years ago and I envied their village life. Families and neighbors lived in close proximity – near to each other for sharing chores, watching babies, and just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Community = Strength</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There was a Rabbi who saw the same woman sitting in the same seat for services year after year after year. Then, suddenly, one winter’s day, she wasn’t there. The Rabbi went to the woman’s home to check on her. The woman told the Rabbi that she was fine. She said, “I like everything you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://susanohalloran.com/community-strength-882</link>
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		<title>Bullied To Death on College Campuses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reading about the suicides on U.S. campuses makes me sad beyond measure. I keep thinking they just didn’t have to happen. Not only were these students “bullied to death” – that is horrible enough. But it also means they had no antidote, no community who welcomed them and neutralized the harm the bullies inflicted. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://susanohalloran.com/876-876</link>
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		<title>Growing Up Japanese American</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Storyteller, Anne Shimojima, describes feeling invisible growing up Japanese American. Why should any child, or adult, get the message they don&#8217;t count or even exist? Let&#8217;s all work to make our events, our media, our lives as inclusive as possible.]]></description>
		<link>http://susanohalloran.com/growing-up-japanese-american-847</link>
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		<title>Breakthrough Compassion Burnout!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How do you get the message out that your organization is doing all sorts of good things? A compelling story can break through information overload. You&#8217;ve got to have a plan to break through people&#8217;s compassion burnout. It won&#8217;t just happen because your cause is worthy. Take the time to find and work on your [...]]]></description>
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