Disrupting the Narrative: Strengthening the Artist Within

This workshop is made possible through the Statewide Community Regrant Program known locally as the Delaware County Arts Grants.

Through a combination of Creative Mindfulness* and Improvisational Logic*, participants will learn to access their inner creative power and sustain a practice of heightened awareness in all the spaces they occupy. The workshop will also focus on Narrative Disruption*, a powerful tool for personal, organizational, and social transformation through stories of lived experience. By the end of this workshop, you will have strengthened your inner artist and gained valuable tools for disrupting the narratives that hold us back. Join us for two days of exploration, growth, and transformation!

*Creative Mindfulness: the ability to use our creative power (genius) to sustain a practice of heightened or complete state awareness in both personal and professional spaces.

*Improvisational Logic: the act of bypassing self-doubt, embarrassment, or insecurity to access one’s generative powers. 

*Narrative Disruption- the craft of personal, organizational, and social transformation through stories of lived experience.

Participants should consider bringing a lunch or ordering ahead for pick up.

Joseph Green Bio

He believes strongly in stories’ innate ability to connect people to their higher purpose and one another.

Over the past 15 years, he has created and facilitated thousands of workshops with youth, educators, health care professionals, nonprofit organizations centering social justice, and many others.His workshops cover youth development, Creative Mindfulness as burnout prevention, inclusion and diversity strategies, youth prevention and recovery programming, and artistic activism.

In his prevention work with high school-aged youth, Joseph has designed and facilitated interactive workshops to create original poetry and short stories on the effects of substance abuse and addiction on their lives. Joseph has provided opportunities for them to share their accounts with policymakers at the White House for the US Office of National Drug Control Policy and the US Department of Education. In his role as Program Manager at the Mentor Foundation USA, Joseph led the effort to revamp the interactive drug prevention youth rally known as “Shattering the Myths.” As part of this initiative, he also served as host for the three-day program that included a full day of writing workshops and leadership training.

In his current role as CEO of LMSvoice, an educational and mindfulness consulting company, Joseph has had the honor to helm and partner with many programs making a positive change in schools and communities around the country. In Wisconsin, Joseph has designed and implemented a youth empowerment program and a comprehensive training for adults working in youth development. In his native region of Washington DC, he leads a team of local youth leaders in creating a mental health literacy program, The Healing Root DC, for young people aged 12-18. In Maryland, along with acclaimed children’s theater Imagination Stage and sponsored by Represent Justice and the Arts for Justice Fund, Joseph works with incarcerated youth to highlight their stories and help end mass incarceration.Joseph and his team at LMSvoice are also excited about the November 2020 relaunch of the LMSvoice website as a free and ever-expanding resource of curriculum, workshops, and other online learning tools in a multitude of topics and digital mediums.

Joseph’s life story and work are featured in media outlets such as Youth Today, UpWorthy, PBS NewsHour, NPR, and many more.He has recently keynoted or presented at the 2017 American Society of Addiction Medicine, Talks @ Google, the University of Baltimore, 2016/18 California