Sara Schneider discusses “The Human Journey” interactive program for deep listening about life stages

In this week’s Seekers of Meaning TV Show and Podcast, Sara Schneider, founder & CEO of The Human Journey, discussses how the program’s two-hour guided experience takes families of birth, families of choice, and support groups from suffering, isolation, and fragmentation to togetherness, meaning, and deep listening.

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About the Guest

THE HUMAN JOURNEY® Founder/CEO Sara K. Schneider, Ph.D., is a cultural anthropologist, theatre maker, and organizational consultant and facilitator – she likes to say she’s “an artist whose medium is groups.”

The idea for THE HUMAN JOURNEY® emerged from a period of personal challenge, when a three significant losses in short succession returned Sara to her expertise in narrative and performance theory. The problem she set for herself: How can people get through life crises in such a way that their sharing heals not just themselves but also their audience? The result: The facilitated game experience THE HUMAN JOURNEY®, an “applied theatre” tool to help families and groups connected by biology, choice, or mutual support to cultivate belonging, meaning, and communication skills in advance of a loss or in the heart of other big changes.

Sara is trained as a performance anthropologist, with degrees from Yale and NYU. Her books on human performance (ART OF DARKNESS, VITAL MUMMIES, and CONCERT SONG AS SEEN) have been published by Yale University Press, Cuneiform Books, and Pendragon Press. Sara is the writer-deviser of the plays AMERICAN YOGI, COLOR STORY, IN PEERAGE OUT, and REPREHENSIBLE SHOES. During her years in New York City, Sara was the founder and artistic director of the theatre company Chaparral Productions and taught drama and theatre in the School of Drama at University of Washington as well as at the University of Kentucky and Berea College.

She has published chapters in education, design, anthropology, and medical training books, and her insights have been featured on a variety of NPR programs and television and video productions. She consults on organizational and leadership strategy, program development, and learning design to nonprofit, healthcare, and corporate clients and offers experiential training and workshops on professional skills, and bringing spirituality into professional life.

Sara has trained hospice workers in the United States and Canada, as well as practitioners in addictions work, chaplaincy, marriage and family counseling, social work, coaching, and nursing to conduct THE HUMAN JOURNEY® for families and groups of support. Prior to committing to making THE HUMAN JOURNEY® a working reality in professional settings around the country, Sara was a theatre director, writer, and professor, and, most recently, a tenured education professor in leadership studies. Through her teaching and consulting, she has guided hundreds of working professionals in education, healthcare, the clergy, law enforcement, and the arts to access and grow their own and their colleagues’ wisdom and resources.