Meet Dr. Lisa
All of Lisa’s professional and social efforts coalesce around six core ideals:
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Encouraging people to see unresolved trauma as an impetus for changing their narrative.
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Writing, laughing, having fun, and sharing pain with others, as a path to personal healing.
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Offering to children, great educators by preparing and supporting novice and prospective teachers.
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Advocating with and for families to obtain positive educational and social outcomes.
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Cultivating a free and culturally authentic spiritual expressions framed by liberatory theology.
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Reminding of hope. A person can choose to share, write, tell, their narrative, their essential truth.
My Story
Dr. Lisa Green-Derry refers to herself as NOLA BRAR (“pronounced bruh”) - New Orleans Born, Raised and Returned. Her ways of being in the world are because of her parents, siblings, and others in the Seventh Ward village where she was raised. She is a proud New Orleanian “from clans and cousins, pralines and parades, gumbo and greens, trials and testimonies, yard parties and ya momma an’ ‘em, love and laughter!”
The love (sometimes tough) from her 7th ward village continues to guide her as she reflects on and shares parts of her journey from teenage wife, mom, and student to medical laboratory scientist, science educator, and published author.
Lisa is blessed to be called “Wife” by her strongest supporter and caring critic, Horace Derry. She is also the proud mother of three, their spouses, and “MiMi” to six beautifully brilliant grandchildren.
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NOLA BRAR
NOLA BRAR
(“pronounced bruh”)
New Orleans Born, Raised, and Returned
Vintage NOLA BRAR merchandise and more coming soon
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Scars & Pieces
Five small group sessions that evoke uninhibited interactions and discussions around "healing from and to." Come prepared to laugh, create, reflect, touch, and see scars as paths to healing, happiness, health and hope!
Dr. Lisa's Front Porch
Six intergenerational sessions that provide space and time to collect, to re-tell, re-write bits of life's "sweetnesses and bitternesses" into healed narratives.
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