Murray Nossel, PhD

FOUNDER & DIRECTOR

Murray Nossel co-founded Narativ in 2002 and has been teaching his listening and storytelling method around the world for more than 25 years. Murray also applies his listening and storytelling methodology in the theater and documentary filmmaking. Two Men Talking, a performance of his listening and storytelling method developed with Dr. Paul Browde, has been performed in the West End of London and Off-Broadway in New York City. His film, “Why Can’t We Be a Family Again?”, about African American brothers in Brooklyn struggling to reunite with their mother, a recovering drug addict, was nominated for a 2002 Academy Award®. The origin of the World Mother Storytelling Project (WMSP) took shape after Murray's parents were hijacked in their car in South Africa. This incident forever changed his relationship and perspective of his mother who convinced the hijackers to leave them unharmed. Murray has since founded the World Mother Storytelling Project with the aim of creating a movement of listening and telling mother stories around the world.