Colleen Jayne
I bring a varied life experience to the storytelling. Psychiatric nurse for forty-five years
Currently working part time/ as needed at hospital alternative for the acute and persistently mentally ill. Youth Education Director in two different Unity churches for fifteen years. Licensed Unity Teacher and Certified Spiritual Educator Program completed in 2001 Family church services, weekly stories for eight years, facilitated workshops, taught classes, bedtime rally stories for 165 teenagers.
Team building retreat using stories. Published curriculum for Youth Education in the Holiday Spirit, Association of Unity Churches, Lee’s Summit Missouri, 2000
Mom and Grandmother and I have been married for 50 years to my Husband George.
A fourth-generation, nationally recognized, Affrilachian storyteller. A teaching artist with the Ohio Alliance for Arts Education, and workshop facilitator with both OAAE and the Ohio State-Based Collaborative Initiative of the Kennedy Center. A Thurber House mentor. A writer, published in storytelling magazines and newsletters, as well as teachers’ enrichment books and story anthologies, and her own books. A recording artist with award-winning CDs. A Laughter Yoga Teacher and breath mechanic. Go to my new page, Laughter, Breath, Joy!, for more information! A happy partner-in-life, mama, grandmama, great-grandmama, and good cook!
