Developed through Lisa’s peace studies research, this program offers an opportunity to nurture empathic understanding toward oneself and others through a variety of effective narrative methods, including traditional and personl story sharing, and community story creation.
This program assists educators, parents, and visionaries in all fields to identify, articulate, and model their highest principals of leadership.
This program provides participants insight into alternative methods that have challenged and changed oppression, injustice, and despair.
Beginning with a historical overview that demonstrates how a variety of art forms has effectively been used to assist in changing humankind’s perceptions and actions during times of conflict, participants move on to creating their own artworks that address issues of global and personal concern.
This program reflects upon the abilities of one person who, against great odds, was effective in instituting positive and lasting change. In addition to honoring Ms. Carson, we examine the current state of endangered species and ways each of us might “give voice” to those living beings who cannot speak up for themselves.
This program introduces participants to the methods used in this medium, in which humor and randomness provide freedom to examine challenging situations in new and inventive ways.
These profound wisdom tales offer a wealth of meaning on friendship, service, sacrifice, humility, and compassion.
These artist-in-residencies offer students an immersion in the mythology of ancient cultures. The week involves an overview of a particular history and culture, its beliefs and artifacts, the oral tradition of the culture’s tales, and an exploration of the meanings and messages these profound stories offer us today. Throughout the week, students work on an hour-length play, which they perform at week’s end.
The following is a list of Lisa’s original
plays with casts of 20 or more for grades 4–8:
(For adults and survivors of violence, rape, abuse, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder)
This program introduces and explains Baba Yaga in Russian folktale by examining her world, her many roles, how she liberates, and the wondrous gifts she brings. Equipped with this map of meaning, we enter into Baba Yaga’s fierce healing realm with a retelling of the folktale Fenist the Bright Falcon. Following this is a sharing of personal stories, which participants are invited to enter into if they choose.
This program is designed to open the heart to the courageous experience of soul retrieval and the action of reclaiming a lost part of the self that was disassociated from the body through trauma.
Lisa Worth Huber has a vision that one day peace education will become a part of the curriculum in schools everywhere. With that aim, Lisa offers a variety of programs that provide pathways toward developing a world of social justice activists and peace builders.