{"id":3287,"date":"2017-09-05T12:45:03","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T12:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/?p=3287"},"modified":"2017-09-05T13:45:06","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T13:45:06","slug":"oscars-nominated-murray-nossel-believes-in-healing-through-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/oscars-nominated-murray-nossel-believes-in-healing-through-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscars-nominated Murray Nossel believes in healing through stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3289\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/murray_fullbody-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/murray_fullbody-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/murray_fullbody-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/murray_fullbody-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/murray_fullbody-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/murray_fullbody-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/murray_fullbody.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although he comes from a family in South Africa in which stories were rarely told and keeping your mouth shut was\u00a0considered\u00a0a virtue, he grew up surrounded by cultures that value stories.<\/p>\n<p>Murray trained as a\u00a0psychologist, obtaining a PhD in social work at Columbia University in New York, where he now teaches a masters in narrative medicine. If you haven&#8217;t heard of it\u00a0until now, narrative medicine is a spreading practice that requires doctors to recognize, absorb, interpret and act on the stories of their patients, in order to ensure an effective and humane medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p>He is also an acclaimed filmmaker. In 2003, he received an Oscar nomination for his short documentary,\u00a0<em>Why Can&#8217;t We Be a Family Again?<\/em>, the story of two teenage brothers raised by their grandmother, who still hope that their mother will manage to overcome the\u00a0crack addiction that destroyed their family.\u00a0Murray then directed the documentary\u00a0<em>Turn to Me<\/em>\u00a0featuring Nobel Prize\u2013winning author <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biography.com\/people\/elie-wiesel-9530714\">Elie Wiesel<\/a>. In 2005, he received a Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CjxtsSP3jm8?start=17&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But his skills don&#8217;t stop at medicine, teaching and film making. Together with his professional partner and friend (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/forbes\/2010\/1122\/human-capital-murray-nossel-narrativ-telling-stories.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">whom he first hated<\/a>), Paul Browde, Murray created and\u00a0stars\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bernsarts.com\/two-men-talking\/\"><em>Two Men Talking<\/em><\/a>, a live unscripted storytelling performance that began as\u00a0a\u00a0deeply personal research of identity, friendship, mortality and forgiveness.\u00a0The two men usually\u00a0&#8220;talk of growing up as white, middle class and privileged men under apartheid&#8221;.\u00a0Their tale, which was staged all over the world, takes us through their career struggles, coming out as gay, confronting and talking openly about AIDS, and living\u00a0in the US.\u00a0Two Men Talking\u00a0has been\u00a0praised\u00a0by\u00a0the\u00a0The\u00a0New York Times,\u00a0The Guardian\u00a0&amp;\u00a0The London Times, among others.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3288\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/download-1-1024x341.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/download-1-1024x341.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/download-1-300x100.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/download-1-768x256.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/download-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Adding to his ever-expanding list of abilities, Murray is the co-founder and director of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/narativ.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Narativ<\/a>, a firm he started with Paul Browde, whose clients range from Disney, to UNICEF and HBO,\u00a0that specializes in storytelling in a business context.\u00a0Next year, Murray will release\u00a0his first book,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Powered-Storytelling-Excavate-Transform-Communication\/dp\/1260011909\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Powered by Storytelling: Excavate, Craft, and Present Stories to Transform Business Communication<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although he comes from a family in South Africa in which stories were rarely told and keeping your mouth shut was\u00a0considered\u00a0a virtue, he grew up surrounded by cultures that value stories. Murray trained as a\u00a0psychologist, obtaining a PhD in social work at Columbia University in New York, where he now teaches a masters in narrative &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/oscars-nominated-murray-nossel-believes-in-healing-through-stories\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oscars-nominated Murray Nossel believes in healing through stories<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,1],"tags":[60,128,136],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3287"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3301,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3287\/revisions\/3301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}