TOTALLY TRUE THINGS: A Socially Conscious Storytelling Show

WEBINARS

This is a series of recorded performances featuring award-winning performers sharing true stories that focus on mental health, medical challenges, and social issues, followed by a discussion that includes an expert on the topic explored in the show, hosted by Licensed Clinical Social Worker, creative arts therapist and writer/performer Jude Treder-Wolff who is producing the show through Lifestage, Inc, a NYS-approved provider of Continuing Education for social workers. Each webinar provides 1.5 contact hours of CE for social workers in NYS. A link to the video online, a fact sheet and an online evaluation are provided upon receipt of registration, and a completed CE Certificate will be provided upon completion of the evaluation.

Individual webinars are $12 or $65 purchases a subscription to watch them all through the end of December 2020.

This series is produced by Lifestage, Inc, an approved provider of Continuing Education for Social workers in NYS (provider #0270). Social workers can earn 1.5 contact hours of Continuing Ed for each show watched after completing an online evaluation.

Webinars will be made available within a week after each live show. Here is the schedule with dates of the live events:

Live-streamed Thursday Sept. 17, 2020 “Smoker” - Written and performed by Bob Brader; Topic: complexities of addiction and trauma. GUEST EXPERT: John Martin, Senior Public Health Educator, Suffolk Co. Dept of Health Services

Live-streamed Thursday, September 24 “The Good Adoptee”

Written and directed by Suzanne Bachner, performed by Hayley Palmer; Topic: mental health issues resulting from adoption. GUEST EXPERT: Pat O’Brien, Executive Director of the Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition of New York

7:30 p.m. Thursday, October 8 "Nazis and Me" written and performed by David Lawson;

Topic: white supremacy and encounters with hate groups.

7:30 p.m. Thursday, October 15 "We Are Still Human" written and performed by Helena Lewis; Topic: the struggles of incarcerated women

7:30 pm Thursday, October 22 “Fish Out Of Agua” written and performed by Michele Carlo; Topic: race and the struggle to belong.

7:30 pm Thursday October 29 "The Journey of Funny" written and performed by Vernon Payne; Topic: structural racism and resilience.

7:30 pm Thursday November 12 "Anatomy Of A Doll" written and performed by Terri Muss; Topic: sexual abuse and its intersection with substance abuse

7:30 pm Thursday November 19 "This Isn’t Helping" written and performed by Jude Treder-Wolff; Guest-host: Peter Michael Marino; Topic: trauma treatment burn-out and recovery.

HOST/PRODUCER JUDE TREDER-WOLFF is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Certified Group Psychotherapist and Certified Practitioner of Applied Improvisation, President of Lifestage, Inc and host/creator of (mostly) TRUE THINGS, a game wrapped in a storytelling show based on Long Island, NY and performed around the country since 2014, including a teen edition. She is active in the national storytelling scene, featured on PBS Stories From The Stage, Story District in Washington, D.C. Ex Fabula (All-Star Grand Slam winner) in Milwaukee, WI, RISK! Live show and podcast, Mistakes Were Made, Mortified and many others. Her solo show This Isn’t Helping was selected for the Whitefire Solo Theatre Festival in Sherman Oaks, CA, the 2018 Speak Up! Rise Up! Storytelling Festival, and performed in theaters around the country. She served as chair of the 2019 Applied Improvisation Network World Conference at Stony Brook University, in partnership with the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science.