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Hosted by Maria Bryan · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 57 episodes
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The When Bearing Witness® podcast is an invitation to explore trauma-informed storytelling, a safe and healthy process of gathering and telling painful stories. Join my conversations with trauma-informed experts and fellow social-good storytellers as we help shape the intersection of trauma-informed care and the storytelling process. Stories are sacred, and we can create a safe space to tell and share them.
Maria Bryan hosts When Bearing Witness®: Becoming a Trauma-Informed Storyteller, a business show with 57 episodes published.
Send us Fan Mail Storytelling in the anti-trafficking space carries a particular weight, where the urgency to communicate impact can pull against the responsibility to protect the very people whose stories are being told
Send us Fan Mail In This Episode Nonprofit storytelling is changing. Organizations are being asked to think more carefully about how stories are gathered, who holds power in the storytelling process, and what it means to
Send us Fan Mail By this point in the year, storytelling can start to feel different. You’re still showing up to the interviews, the deadlines, the back and forth. But something begins to shift. A story lingers longer th
Send us Fan Mail Diana, CEO of Habrá Marketing and creator of the Equastory framework, joins us for a conversation about what it takes for trauma-informed storytelling to become more than an individual practice. It becom
Send us Fan Mail What if storytelling returned back toward its oldest purpose: connection? In this episode, I’m joined by Michael Kass, founder of Story & Spirit, to imagine what it would look like to flip the way we tel
Send us Fan Mail Content warning: This episode includes discussion of trauma, systemic harm, and experiences of marginalization, shared with care and intention. This conversation begins with a truth many of us feel but d
Send us Fan Mail As we step into a new year of storytelling, this episode invites you to slow down, take a breath, and ground your practice in deeper care. Trauma-informed storytelling is not just about avoiding harm. It
Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode of When Bearing Witness , we step into a conversation that sits at the heart of trauma-informed storytelling: what happens when a story intended to inspire instead causes harm, and how
Send us Fan Mail Nonprofit storytellers are tasked with sharing stories that move people to act, yet we also carry the responsibility of protecting the dignity and agency of those whose stories we tell. And when we are w
Send us Fan Mail Content Warning: Michelle briefly talks about the death of a loved one. Be mindful of your emotional capacity as you listen in. Storytelling in the nonprofit world is a powerful act of witness, but it ca
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of When Bearing Witness, Maria sits down with Angela Soliz, a resilience coach, artist, and founder of Gela Road, a creative resilience agency helping people uncover their identity and bu
Send us Fan Mail For many nonprofits, earned media is a powerful way to raise awareness, build credibility, and connect with new supporters. But when stories involve lived experiences of trauma, the stakes are high. On t
Send us Fan Mail What happens when storytelling isn’t just about raising awareness or driving donations, but about creating a space where survivors can be truly seen, heard, and supported? On today’s episode of When Bear
Send us Fan Mail What does it look like to practice trauma-informed storytelling behind the camera? In this episode of When Bearing Witness , filmmaker Heidi Burkey shares how she approaches documentary work with care an
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of When Bearing Witness, Dr. Desmond Upton Patton invites us into a conversation about humility, listening, and the ethics of digital storytelling. He shares what he has learned from year
Send us Fan Mail Ensuring your digital marketing is accessible for all audiences may seem like a daunting task, but today’s guest, Dominique Dunlop, makes it feel not only doable but meaningful. Dominique is the founder
Send us Fan Mail In nonprofit storytelling, there’s often a disconnect between the trauma-informed and ethical practices we aspire to and the systems we’re working within. Many of us feel the urgency to do less harm and
Send us Fan Mail What does it really mean to create a work culture we don’t need to heal from? In this episode of When Bearing Witness , I’m joined by Lindsey Fuller, an educator, coach, and Executive Director of The Tea
Send us Fan Mail How do we communicate with care when marketing and fundraising often rely on urgency and pressure? Today’s guest brings a thoughtful lens to one of the most overlooked areas in nonprofit storytelling: th
Send us Fan Mail What does it mean to lead with care when everything feels like it’s on fire? Today’s guest brings clarity to one of the most important tools we have in times of crisis: storytelling. Catherine Alonzo is
Diana Farias Heinrich
founder · Habrá Marketing
2 appearances on this show
Rachel Edwards
Workplace Futures Lead · Lendlease
1 appearance on this show
Quinn Tempest
1 appearance on this show
Kishshana Palmer
author of Busy is a Four-Letter Word
1 appearance on this show
Joseph Cope
"The Empathy Guy"
1 appearance on this show
Tiffany Yu
social impact entrepreneur, diversity and inclusion community builder, and disability advocate · DiversAbility
1 appearance on this show
Shulamit Ber Levtov
the Entrepreneur's Therapist · The Entrepreneurs’ Therapist
1 appearance on this show
Liz Jackson
leading researcher in epistemology
1 appearance on this show
Jonathan Walton
guest preacher
1 appearance on this show
Meena Das
CEO · Namaste Data
1 appearance on this show
Katie Kurtz
award-winning coach, consultant and speaker · YouTube
1 appearance on this show
Rain Bennett
Award-Winning Filmmaker, Author and Fractional Chief Storytelling Officer
1 appearance on this show
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When Bearing Witness®: Becoming a Trauma-Informed Storyteller is hosted by Maria Bryan. The show is categorised under business (non-profit) and has published 57 episodes.
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