Floris UMC/Restoration Church presents This Is My Brave National Teen Show on Sunday, September 26, 2021. Click on a timestamp below to jump to the performance piece of your choice:
0:00:00 Welcome to Floris UMC/Restoration Church (Megan Seals Dietrick - Contemporary Worship Leader, Barbara Miner - Associate Pastor / Director of Worship, and Isaiah Park - Associate Pastor)
0:09:17 Opening Remarks (Jennifer Marshall)
0:17:35 Meet Abi Scully Video Intro
0:19:10 Abi Scully - Skin (A Dance Choreographed & Performed by Abigail Scully to the song “Skin” music and lyrics by Beth Hart, 1999 Screamin' For My Supper ℗ 1999 Atlantic Recording Corp.)
0:21:39 Meet Daijah Montoya Video Intro
0:23:44 Daijah Montoya - You Don’t Know
0:31:33 Meet Ryver Evans Video Intro
0:33:27 Ryver Evans - Sobriety
0:37:06 Meet Aarna Dixit Video Intro
0:39:20 Aarna Dixit - Growing Pains
0:45:14 Meet Joe Perry Video Intro
0:45:07 Joe Perry - Dear My Mental Illness
0:50:10 Meet Jada Bromberg Video Intro
0:52:10 Jada Bromberg - I’m Still Here
0:57:15 Closing Remarks (Erin Gallagher)
1:02:50 “Tell Them I'm Brave” Performed by Full Circle Band (Written and composed by Natalie Layne and Phoebe Scott. Copyright 2020. All rights on behalf of Natalie Layne Music. Used by permission.)
1:06:52 Lead Pastor Rev. Tom Berlin thanks the storytellers
Videography: Floris UMC Communications & A/V Staff
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Photography: Tom Morris, Painted Bench Photography {www.paintedbenchphotography.com/}
Thank you to the local sponsors & partners of this show:
Wegmans {www.wegmans.com/}
Our Minds Matter {ourmindsmatter.org/}
Oak Hill Psychological Services {oakhillpsychological.com/}
Potomac Psychological Center {www.potomacpsychologicalcente...}
North Spring Behavioral Healthcare {northspringleesburg.com/}
Sterling Behavioral Health Services {sbhsva.com/}
Extra special thanks to the following individuals, contributors, and hosts. We could not have done this without you:
Floris UMC {www.florisumc.org/}
Rev. Tom Berlin
Rev. Barbara Miner
Megan Dietrick
Tasha Mitchell
Katie Rakestraw
Alexis Doty
Dylan Nichols
Restoration Church {restorationreston.org/}
Revs. Daniel and Isaiah Park
Rachel Greenberg, MSW, LSW
Matthew Na, LMSW
Desiree L. Vyas, Ph.D., NCSP
Hayley B. Sherwood, Ph.D.
Kheira Bekkadja, Brave Teen Alum
Beth Murphy, Patrice Howard, & Sadie Zuch of Principle Pictures {www.principlepictures.com/}
WETA Well Beings Youth Mental Health Project {wellbeings.org/}
This Is My Brave's 2021 season would not be possible without the generous support of our National Sponsors:
AbbVie {www.abbvie.com/​}
Janssen {www.janssen.com/​}
The Nathan Cummings Foundation {nathancummings.org/​}
Sage Therapeutics {www.sagerx.com/​}
Alkermes {www.alkermes.com/}
Sunovion {www.sunovion.us/}
BetterHelp {betterhelp.com/thisismybrave}
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This Is My Brave, Inc., a 501(c)3 non-profit organization (thisismybrave.org) is the leading platform for individuals to share their stories of living successful lives despite a diagnosis of a mental health disorder through artistic expression (spoken word poetry, original music, dance, comedy and essay readings) on stage in front of a live audience. We're opening up the conversation about mental health disorders in communities all across the country and beyond via our KZread channel.
We're shining a light on mental illness because it has been in the dark too long. We're ending mental illness stigma, one story at a time.
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