David Strabala is currently a full-time counselor in the Clay County Juvenile Office. He also works part-time telling stories in an innovative healing program, Warriors’ Ascent, for veterans and first-responders struggling with PTSD. He uses a unique form of “hero’s journey” storytelling and drumming with the warriors and teens to uncover meaning and depth in the story of one’s life. Prior to that, he worked with community mental health, EAPs, brain injury and mobile crisis. Strabala is the director of an award-winning feature documentary, “What Is Synchronicity?” (2014), which explores the passages of meaningful coincidence through the views of artists, scientists, authors and others. He received his MSW from the University of Iowa and moved to the Kansas City area in 1993.
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