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The Stories We Tell Ourselves

  • Sunday, October 16, 2022
  • 12:30 pm – 3:00 pm
  • Zoom meeting

an afternoon Webinar (on Zoom)
with Gregg Levoy

We’re storytelling animals, and we create stories to help us make sense of life and give us a framework for our decisions, whether personal, professional or spiritual.
 
But those stories can sometimes turn on us—especially the negative ones—and become self-limiting when they come up against life’s primary goal: Grow. And when they become lies of identity—I am what I do, I am what I have, I am what other people think of me.
 
Stories become opinions become beliefs become behaviors. We don’t just tell stories—they tell us. And until the core perceptions at the heart of our stories are confronted, and perhaps deconstructed or updated, the behavior that grows out of them won’t change.
 
This presentation—part service talk (at our 10am service today) and part hands-on workshop—is designed to help you identify and reconsider the stories you tell yourself. We’ll work to separate fact from fiction, emphasize the positive in our stories, and understand that they don’t keep replaying themselves to torment us, but to offer us opportunities to heal and grow. The soul’s agenda is not punishment, but healing.

REGISTER for this event with PayPal. Cost: $30. We will send you a Zoom link upon registration.

Gregg Levoy
author & speaker

Gregg LevoyGregg Levoy is the author of Vital Signs: The Nature and Nurture of Passion (Penguin), and Callings: Finding and Following An Authentic Life (Random House) –rated among the “Top 20 Career Publications” by the Workforce Information Group and a text in various graduate programs in Management and Organizational Leadership. He is a former “behavioral specialist” at USA Today, and a regular blogger for Psychology Today.

He is a lecturer and seminar-leader in the business, educational, governmental, faith-based and human-potential arenas, and has keynoted and presented workshops at numerous locations including: The Smithsonian Institution, Esalen Institute, Omega Institute, Environmental Protection Agency, Microsoft, Americorps, and many universities throughout the U.S.

A former adjunct professor of journalism at the University of New Mexico, former columnist and reporter for USA Today and the Cincinnati Enquirer, and author of This Business of Writing (Writer’s Digest Books), he has written for the New York Times Magazine, Washington Post, Omni, Psychology Today, Christian Science Monitor, Fast Company, Reader’s Digest, and many others, as well as for corporate, promotional and television projects.

He lives in Santa Cruz, CA, and his website is www.gregglevoy.com

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