The university’s OHIO Today featured the event in “From illness to wellness: breaking the stigma”: https://www.ohio.edu/news/2024/10/illness-wellness-breaking-stigma

In her talk, Melody Moezzi will share her personal experiences and discuss the challenges people face when seeking mental health support. She will explain how different views on mental health can make it difficult to get the right help. You’ll learn about these issues and discover ways to better support each other.

Melody Moezzi will share personal stories and explore the barriers and biases faced by those seeking mental health treatment. She will highlight societal and cross-cultural stigmas, as well as the complexities of mental health conditions and treatments. Attendees will gain valuable insights into overcoming these obstacles and fostering a more inclusive approach to mental health care.

Participants will also receive information about local and state mental health resources and opportunities for further learning. Join us to deepen your understanding of mental health, discover strategies for positive change, and collaborate to improve community support!

Join us on campus for World Suicide Prevention Day on September 10.

Register now: https://ohio.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3HSQAhpkfz2WmKW

Thank you to the OHIO Zanesville CARE Team Committee and Zane State College for providing this FREE opportunity to our region.

Preorder Melody Moezzi's book and save through Kicks Mix Bookstore.  Books will also be available for purchase at the event.

Kicks Mix Bookstore: https://kicksmixbookstore.com/event/2024-09-10/preorder-melody-moezzi-book-upcoming-event-illness-wellness

Join Midtown Reader for our Meet and Greet Happy Hour! Stop by to grab a drink from the Piebrary and meet authors Melody Moezzi and Douglas Pratt!

UPDATE: Address now available on YouTube

The Envision Access Conference is an opportunity for members of the Tri-State to increase awareness and understanding of trends in addressing the needs of students with disabilities.

There is no cost to attend, but registration is required.

Conference Expectations and Goals:

• Create a networking event that helps to foster working relationships between guidance counselors, interventions specialists, and higher education accessibility/disability services administrators

• Accessing and embracing the use of technology.

• Learn best practices related to students with disabilities.

• Develop community connections to increase educational attainment for students with disabilities.

Who Should Attend:

• Guidance counselors, Intervention specialists and Enrollment services

• Parents of students with disabilities

• Educators and Administrators

• Higher Education Professionals

• Human Resource Professionals

• Community Leaders, Business Owners and Non-Profit Executives

• Health Care & Social Services Professionals

• Hospitality

• Students (Secondary & Post-Secondary)

• Government

TRUTH AS ACTIVISM- MELODY MEOZZI (IRANIAN- AMERICAN- MUSLIM AUTHOR,SPEAKER, AND ACTIVIST

MARCH 2, 2022 @5PM

Come Join us via Zoom to talk about how to be an activist and ow Melody Moezzi discovered her passion through her books. 

Link to event: https://www.stmarys-ca.edu/womens-resource-center/events

Jenara Nerenberg and author Melody Moezzi discuss Jenara's book, Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You.

This event is archived on Facebook: https://fb.watch/5kgKxl5sql

UPDATE: Watch the event here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C89Gk0PA-nk&t=87s

In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s presidency, imbued with racist rhetoric and anti-immigrant legislation, we are still whirling. Additionally, we continue to grapple with the impact of the pandemic, the murders of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, and the subsequent Black Lives Matter protests. Although we have a new presidential administration, there is much to reflect upon and reckon with. For the 3rd Annual Race in America special panel event, we will look at both past mistakes and lessons learned, considering our country's persistent issues and the work that still lies before us.

Our conversation will do so with the strength of an impressive all-female panel of changemakers in honor of Women’s History Month:

May-lee Chai is the author of ten books, including the collection of short stories, Useful Phrase for Immigrants; and three novels, My Lucky Face, Dragon Chica, and Tiger Girl. May-lee is a writer and is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship; and the 2014 APALA (Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association) Literature Award. She is an Associate Professor for Creative Writing Dept. at SF State University.

Myriam Gurba is a writer, story-teller, and visual artist. She is best known for her review in Tropics of Meta of American Dirt. In 2019, O, The Oprah Magazine called Gurba's work Mean one of the "Best LGBTQ Books of All Time”. Mean is a true crime, memoir, and ghost story, as well as the bold and hilarious tale of Myriam Gurba’s coming of age as a queer, mixed-race Chicana. Blending radical formal fluidity and caustic humor, Gurba takes on sexual violence, small towns, and race, turning what might be tragic into piercing, revealing comedy.

Nia McAllister is a poet, writer, and environmental justice advocate working at the intersection of art, activism, and public engagement. As the Public Programs Manager and Book-Buyer at The Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco, Nia strives to create participatory spaces for creative expression and literary dialogue. She is the host and founder of the Open Mic series at MoAD and has committed herself to creating platforms for amplifying the work of Black artists on a global scale. Nia's poetry has been featured on Poets of Color Podcast, Nomadic Press Dial-A-Poet Series, and in forthcoming publications.

Melody Moezzi is an Iranian-American Muslim author, attorney, activist, and visiting associate professor of creative writing at UNCW. She is the author of Haldol and Hyacinths: A Bipolar Life, War on Error: Real Stories of American Muslims, and most recently, The Rumi Prescription: How an Ancient Mystic Poet Changed My Modern Manic Life. Moezzi’s essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and many other outlets. You can follow her on Twitter at @MelodyMoezzi and on Instagram at @Melody.Moezzi.

Heading things up is Book Passage's Buyer and Events Host, Paula Farmer. In addition to curating and moderating the special Book Passage panel events for social discourse and change, Paula is a features writer, and hosts “Speaking Of,” an interview series on Instagram in which she regularly talks with BIPOC authors, artists, and activists on topical issues. She is the Chairperson of the Diversity and Inclusion subcommittee of CALIBA and was recently selected for the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion committee for the American Booksellers Association.

Complete book talk with Q&A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbk66htE_-c&t=1s

The poems of the 13th-century Persian poet known simply as Rumi have been described as ecstatic, mystical, and devotional. To author, lawyer, activist, and Emory alumna (06L, 06PH) Melody Moezzi, they became a lifeline. Her father, a physician, used to leave Rumi’s poems around the house for her, written on pages from his prescription pad, but it wasn’t until she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder that she realized how the words of the poet could help her face the fear, isolation, depression, and distraction she faced each day.

Join Moezzi for a discussion of her memoir, The Rumi Prescription: How an Ancient Mystic Poet Changed My Modern Manic Life.

Free and Open to the Public. This lecture and conversation will be conducted primarily in English, though it will also include Farsi. Cosponsored by the Duke University Graduate and Professional Student Council (GPSC); Duke Islamic Studies Center (DISC); Persian Studies Program at UNC Chapel Hill Event hosted by Graduate Student Association of Iranians at Duke (GSAID) & Iranian Cultural Society of NC (ICSNC).

Event link: http://calendar.duke.edu/show?fq=id%3ACAL-2c918084-75f8bcde-0176-1b784217-00007270demobedework%40mysite.edu

Meeting ID: 95827839719

6:45 - 7:00 Social

7:00 - 7:10 Introduction

7:10 - 7:45 Lecture

7:45 - 8:45 Q&A, Poetry & Free Discussion

For 26 years, we've welcomed acclaimed speakers, thinkers, and teachers to Richmond, VA for our award-winning keynotes.

Details on virtual keynote TBA.

For more information on The Innerwork Center, visit https://innerworkcenter.org.

A conversation with Melody Moezzi

Livestreaming Event hosted by ASHA International

https://myasha.org/events/#

Alyson McGregor, M.D. and Melody Moezzi

June 30, 2020 - 7:00pm

Prairie Lights Virtual - Zoom

Please join us for a dialogue on medicine and gender, featuring Dr. Alyson J McGregor, author of Sex Matters, and Melody Moezzi, author of The Rumi Prescription. For the link to access the event, register here.

Alyson J. McGregor, M.D. is a women's health pioneer who has brought the concept of sex and gender differences in the delivery of acute medical care to the national scale. She is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and the Co-Founder and Director for the Division of Sex and Gender in Emergency Medicine at Brown University's Department of Emergency Medicine. Dr. McGregor is also a Co-Founder for the national organization Sex and Gender Women's Health Collaborative. She has written or co-written over sixty peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals on the topic of sex and gender, and she is the lead editor for the medical textbook, Sex and Gender in Acute Care Medicine. Her new book, Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women's Health and What We Can Do About It, is an informative and prescriptive guide for women to learn about their unique bodies, the challenges they face in our male-centric medical system, and the steps they can take right now to begin to reduce their personal risk factors and make grass-roots changes in their local medical communities

Melody Moezzi, an activist, attorney, professor, and award-winning author. Her new book The Rumi Prescription: How an Ancient Mystic Poet Changed My Modern Manic Life has been called “a heartening narrative of family, transformation, and courage” that “could shatter a variety of prejudices and stereotypes.” by Kirkus Reviews. Her other books include the critically acclaimed memoir Haldol and the Hyacinths: A Bipolar Life and War on Error: Real Stories of American Muslims, which earned her a Georgia Author of the Year Award. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, The Guardian, HuffPost, The Daily Beast, Al Arabiya, and The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine, among others. She has appeared on CNN, BBC, NPR, HLN, PBS, CSPAN, PRI, Air America and many other radio and television programs, providing commentary on issues ranging from mental health to Iran to feminism to Islam in America and beyond. She is a visiting professor of creative nonfiction at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, and an experienced keynote speaker on a variety of issues—most notably mental health, wellness, inclusion, writing, and activism, especially surrounding Islamophobia, Iranian-American relations, and disability rights.

To order their books for curbside pickup, free local delivery, or media mail shipping, find them in our online shop (McGregor) (Moezzi) or give us a call at 319-337-2681.

Let’s talk mental health and wellness.

Meet author Melody Moezzi, author of several books including, “The Rumi Prescription: How an Ancient Mystic Poet Changed My Modern Manic Life.” Kirkus calls her latest book “a heartening narrative of family, transformation, and courage” that “could shatter a variety of prejudices and stereotypes.”

We bring you courageous authors who can engage us in the hard conversations. In addition to learning about Melody’s book, we’ll talk about our minds, our sanity, and our complicated paths to wellness.

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We're hosting our cover subject, Melody Moezzi, author of The Rumi Prescription, for a Facebook Live event this Wednesday. Please join us! (It's free, just come on by!)

7 p.m. Eastern. Spread the word! Melody will be sharing her story of how Rumi helped her heal.

https://www.facebook.com/spirithealthmag

“Quit being a drop. Make yourself an ocean.” Rumi’s inspiring and deceptively simple poems have been called ecstatic, mystical, and devotional. For writer and activist Melody Moezzi, they became her lifeline.

With the help of her father, who is a lifelong fan of Rumi’s poetry, she immersed herself in Rumi’s rich body of work, and discovered a 13th-century prescription for modern life. Melody’s latest book, The Rumi Prescription, follows her path of discovery as she translates Rumi’s works for herself, gaining wisdom and insight in the face of a creative and spiritual roadblock.

Melody addresses isolation, distraction, depression, fear, and many other everyday challenges we face—arguing that Rumi provides a roadmap for living with intention and ease, embracing love at every turn—despite the divided and chaotic times we live in. By following her journey translating Rumi’s works, Melody provides us a vivid reminder that we already have the answers we seek, if we can just slow down to honor them.

Join Professor and Co-Chair of CIIS’ Expressive Arts Therapy Program Shoshana Simons for a conversation with Melody about her life and how the wisdom she found exploring Rumi can help us make sense of our modern lives.

Please note that this talk will be hosted live online. Instructions on how to join the webinar will be included in your event confirmation email. If you need additional assistance finding or joining the event, please email publicprograms@ciis.edu.

We're pleased to welcome Melody Moezzi to our “At Home with Literati Series” and in support of The Rumi Prescription, in conversation with author and illustrator Ellen Forney.

Note: Meetings are now automatically password protected with wait rooms enabled. The password is entered automatically by clicking the link if you are logged into a Zoom account. We will let guests in off the waiting list shortly after 7 and throughout the event. If you join late, hang in there, we'll let you in when we see you. 

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About The Rumi Prescription: 

A powerful personal journey to find meaning and life lessons in the words of a wildly popular 13th century poet. Addressing isolation, distraction, depression, fear, and other everyday challenges we face, the book offers a roadmap for living with intention and ease, and embracing love at every turn--despite our deeply divided and chaotic times. Most of all, it presents a vivid reminder that we already have the answers we seek, if we can just slow down to honor them.

We're hosting our cover subject, Melody Moezzi, author of The Rumi Prescription, for a Facebook Live event this Wednesday. Please join us! (It's free, just come on by!)

7 p.m. Eastern. Spread the word! Melody will be sharing her story of how Rumi helped her heal.

https://www.facebook.com/spirithealthmag

The sharing of words through story, poem and song has always brought communities together in times of fear and change. So, join us for Weekend of Words, a free virtual literary festival to celebrate the written word and those behind it.

Thank you so much for your interest in this little experiment that has taken the form of a spontaneous pop-up festival! It was conceived as a response to the new climate around us, with so many events, classes and performances cancelled. We now have over 125 presenters, 50 sessions and over 30 hours of free literary programming for the community.

The mission of the festival is keep the important work of authors visible, create revenue streams and provide inspiration for others in the literary community. One part of the experiment is to see if we can create a new revenue stream for artists — to make this festival accessible to everyone, we made the programming free and are going to be encouraging donations to the presenters. We believe this can help us achieve all parts of the festival mission — broadest reach, affordability and with scale, financial support for all of the artists.

So, we ask you to join us in this grand experiment! Find the sessions that grab your attention, spread the word about them to others in the community, show up to let the presenters know that what they do matters, and when something speaks to you, be generous. Whether financially or just with your words, let them know.

We hope you find this festival meaningful, and fruitful. Thank you for being a part!

Update: YouTube clip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww0FFRLsPHA

In the midst of today’s global health crisis, our lives have changed in ways we could have never imagined: from the way we work, to how we interact with our friends and family, to how we practice self-care and compassion. And as we continue to grapple with an uncertain world, there is no better time for our community to discuss not just how we’re doing, but ways we can better care for ourselves in a time of crisis. 

Join NIAC on May 7, 2020 at 4pm ET for a Zoom conversation about mental health and wellness with award winning Iranian-American author Melody Moezzi and former NIAC board chair and clinical psychologist Dr. Shokooh Miry. NIAC Communications Director Mana Mostatabi will host the discussion, which will explore how today’s crisis, compounded by months of political turmoil, impacts our shared human experience—and ways we can begin to heal as we navigate an evolving world. 

You’re stuck at home.
Chat with an author.

Join your favorite authors on Zoom where you can have spirited discussions from the privacy of our own quarantined space!

This is My Brave Book Club - Live Interactive Virtual Event - In Conversation with Jennifer Marshall - Wednesday April 15 @ 9pm ET / 6pm PT

Join us on Instagram Live at 9pm EST/6pm PST as @jenn.thisismybrave chats with @melody.moezzi about her recently published book, “The Rumi Prescription.” Click the link to order your Kindle copy today: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07VBW25RR

Events: http://www.harvard.com/index.php?/events

Salaam Friends,
Please join us for this event via Zoom or Facebook Live.

Zoom: https://uncw.zoom.us/j/268287255

To learn more about the Author, Check out:
https://www.melodymoezzi.com/press-kit

To purchase this Book:
https://shop.harvard.com/search/site/the+rumi+prescription

Our three-day literary conference educates aspiring and emerging writers on the craft of fiction and nonfiction, prepares them for the ever-changing world of publishing and promotion, and creates opportunities for meaningful networking.

Registration: https://museandthemarketplace.com/register

Have you always wanted to be a writer, but never known where to start or how to find the time? Well, maybe now is the time and home is the place—and Scuppernong Books is here to help! Attend this unique online writing seminar, and learn how to get started (or keep going) as a writer from award-winning author and creative writing professor, Melody Moezzi. She will share her experiences and insights as a successful author and essayist, as well as answer your questions, making sure that this seminar is tailored to your specific needs.

$25 - Class only
$35 - Class and a copy of The Rumi Prescription
Buy tickets here: https://www.scuppernongbooks.com/scuppernong-merch

FB page: https://www.facebook.com/events/250530249442146

Events: https://www.warwicks.com/event/melody-moezzi-2020

San Diego Reader: https://www.sandiegoreader.com/events/2020/mar/18/melody-moezzi-the-rumi-prescription/?et=273566

Melody will be in conversation with Mana Mostatabi, who is the National Iranian American Council’s Communications Director. Those wishing to get books signed will be asked to purchase at least one copy of the author's most recent title from Vroman's. For each purchased copy of the newest title, customers may bring up to three copies from home to be signed. This policy applies to all Vroman's Bookstore events unless otherwise noted. Save your Vroman's receipt; it will be checked when you enter the signing line.

https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/melody-moezzi-conversation-mana-mostatabi-discusses-and-signs-rumi-prescription-how-ancient

Join me in Greensboro, NC for a RumiRx tour stop at Scuppernong Books. I’ll do a short reading and be joined in conversation/Q&A by Greensboro’s own author, storyteller, TEDx speaker, and award-winning podcast producer Deonna Kelli Sayed.

Events: https://www.scuppernongbooks.com/event/melody-moezzi-rumi-prescription

See coverage in The Pilot: “Moezzi Reads From New Book at Weymouth”

Weymouth website: https://weymouthcenter.org

https://www.flyleafbooks.com/rumi-prescription