About Between the Listening and the Telling: How Stories Can Save Us:

In Between the Listening and the Telling, Mark Yaconelli leads readers into an enchanting meditation on the power of storytelling. Stories can be medicine, helping individuals and communities address the despair of climate change, the trauma of school shootings, and the daily struggle for meaning and hope. With a foreword by Anne Lamott, this book offers an alloy of story, commentary, and contemplation. In an era of runaway loneliness, alienation, global crisis, and despair, sharing stories helps us make a homewithin ourselves and one another.

Through his work with The Hearth nonprofit, Yaconelli has served communities across the United States and United Kingdom to bridge divisions, heal trauma, shed light on injustice, and recover hope. In this inspiring and interactive presentation Mark Yaconelli will show how stories can heal our families, our world, ourselves.

Author Bio:

Mark Yaconelli is a speaker, facilitator, and author of five previous books. As founder and director of The Hearth nonprofit, Yaconelli has worked with the Lilly Endowment, Compassion International, and the Mexican American Cultural Center of Austin, among others. Profiles of Yaconelli’s work have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, as well as on BBC Radio 4, NPR,and ABC World News Tonight. He and his wife have threeadult children and live in Ashland, Oregon.