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My name is Leta Harris Neustaedter. I am an arts educator, a musician, an actor, a licensed clinical social worker and community organizer.
I started to realize that the things that I was exploring to become a good performer and a good actor were a lot of times the same things I was talking with my clients about, just as far as empathy building and emotional insight and communication skills and how to deal with stress.
There s just so many commonalities that to me those two worlds started to seem so similar that that s when I finally decided to open my own business where I could just merge those. And so that is what I do in my business, Metamorphosis Performing Arts Studio.
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Everything is based in stories. We want to be understood in our most human level, and storytelling is the easiest way to do that. When I create spaces for myself to be a storyteller, it s not so much about me. It s about making sure that folks around me also in that space know that they are storytellers. My name is The Storyteller, but everybody is capable of storytelling.
I ll offer my introduction first in my Indigenous language. [
Nimipuutímt is an oral language. Out of respect for Nimiipuu culture, transcription has been omitted.] In Nimipuutímt or the language of the Nez Perce tribe my name is The Storyteller and in English my name Tai Simpson.