Paula Abood: Healing Through Storytelling

Paula Abood speaks about the importance of storytelling in developing confidence empathy and building communities. Paula is a Community Cultural Development (CCD) worker, Writer and Educator who has worked with culturally diverse communities for the past 25 years to build capacities in a range of settings.

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ABOUT Paula Abood

“Paula Abood is also a filmmaker. She has worked with diverse communities in capacity building projects for 24 years. Her community productions include ‘Parenting Stories’ (2010), ‘Hurriya and her Sisters’ (2009).

In 2006, there was ‘The Book of African Australian Stories’ also ‘Poetry on Rooftops’, ‘The Book of the Living’ (2006) and ‘Bread and Other Stories’ (2002).

In 2007, she was the recipient of a Western Sydney Artists’ Fellowship for the blogging project ‘Race and the City’. She has a Doctorate in critical and creative writing (2007 UNSW). She is currently teaching on a Certificate IV in Community Cultural Development at Ultimo College in Sydney.

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