LISTENING WELL NEWS

Paula's diverse background includes roles as social change advocate, entrepreneur, corporate manager, government contractor, and transformational leader. Paula is a mental health consumer in recovery. After experiencing the stigma and discrimination that comes form being diagnosed with a mental illness, she has taken it upon herself to create an organization to remove the stigma and discrimination that comes from ignorance.

Listening Well has given hope and encouragement to consumers who feel they can participate in their own recovery. A curriculum and guidelines have been developed so the experiences will have a solid connection to the positive energy of healing. She invites consumers and family members to participate in the process of storytelling to release the shame, despair, and fear of telling their own story. Through this process a new story is born with new possibilities. As Paula said, "They are telling their stories because they can."

Because storytelling is a universal language, the Listening Well can be delivered in any language, to any age group, and with any population. Facilitators are often bilingual and bicultural, enabling them to serve monolingual populations. All are applying newly acquired skills and personal empowerment in increase employability, and to embed the recovery vision.

"My life's work is to access and unleash the power and potential of people enabling us to create the lives and world we envision. I founded Listening Well to use the power of our stories in integrate the learning embedded in life's impeccable lessons." Paula Comunelli - Listening Well, founder and CEO

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