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| Welcome to the 2002 Stories From the Heart website! |
General Information:
(See the Story Circle Network website for more information.)
Heart-y Quotes:
(if you have a quote that you would like to submit, please email it to webmistress@storycircle.org)
If your head tells you one thing and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.  It is my heart that makes my songs, not I. The heart that gives--gathers. It's the heart that's afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is my heart That makes my songs, not I. I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head. Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either. People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear. There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life. The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. |
Last updated: 10/23/02
Contacts:
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Story Circle Network
P.O. Box 500127
Austin, TX 78750-0127
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Keynote: Dr. Betty Sue Flowers
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Betty Sue Flowers, Ph.D., is Professor of English and former Associate Dean of Graduate Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She has also served as Director of the Plan II Honors Program and is a Piper Professor and member of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers. She recently received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Austin chapter of Women in Communication. She is a native Texan with degrees from the University of Texas and the University of London.
Her scholarly publications include a book entitled Browning and the Modern Tradition and articles on Donald Barthelme, Adrienne Rich, Christina Rossetti, poetry therapy, writing, and other subjects. She has edited Daughters and Fathers as well as four books in collaboration with Bill Moyers: Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth; A World of Ideas; Healing and the Mind; and Genesis. She has also published two books of poetry--Four Shields of Power and Extending the Shade--and poems and short fiction in various journals. She was series consultant for "The Power of Myth" as well as a host for the radio series "The Next 200 Years." Her 10-part television series, "Conversation with Betty Sue Flowers," was aired on the Austin PBS affiliate, KLRU.
Professor Flowers has served as a moderator for executive seminars at the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, as a consultant for NASA, as a member of the Envisioning Network for General Motors, as a member of the vision team for the National Endowment for the Humanities, and as a Visiting Advisor to the Secretary of the Navy.
In 1992 and again in 1995 and 1998, she worked with an international team to write Global Scenarios for Shell International in London--stories about the future of the world for the next thirty years.
She has recently edited a book in conjunction with Joseph Jaworski on the inner dimensions of leadership--Synchronicity--and has also completed a manuscript for the Christina Rossetti edition in the Penguin English Poets series.
Professor Flowers was the writer and editor of the global scenarios for sustainable development sponsored by the World Business Council in Geneva and is currently working on scenarios for the future of biotechnology.
Maps/Travel Info:
Lodging/Hotel Info:
Holiday Inn Austin Town Lake
20 N. IH-35 (IH-35 at Town Lake Dr.)
Austin, TX 78701
512-472-8211
See the hotel web page for more information.To get the conference rate ($109/night plus tax, double occupancy), you must call the local Austin number. We must fill 25 hotel rooms or our meeting room rental costs double, so be SURE to use the local Austin number to make your reservation, rather than doing it on-line through the Holiday Inn website or through a Holiday Inn 1-800 number.
| Would you like to advertise for a roommate? See our Roommates Wanted! web page. |
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Goodies:
As is usual at conferences, participants will receive a bag of goodies. Because of a generous donation from RemArt, women attending will be able to choose from 7 prints of still life paintings by Steven Remmert valued from $75.00 to $200.00. [A small fee will be added for a carrying or mailing tube.]
To see samples of Stephen's work, click here or here.
Sponsors & Supporters:
Children:
There will be babysitting scholarships available (to reimburse you for paying for childcare in order to attend the conference). There will be no on-site babysitting available.
Frequently Asked Questions:
Last updated: 10/22/02
