Regenerative Educator Training #4: Working With Story
A one-day training in visionary storytelling, supporting you & the youth you work with to harness the power of story to create healthier, more liberating narratives.
Friday 22nd July 2022, 9am-5pm
Location: School 360, Sugar House Lane, Stratford, E15 2QS
“The whole world is a story.” Michael Meade famously said.
Whether we call ourselves a ‘storyteller’ or not, we constantly tell stories – about our lives, our identity, our aspirations for the future…
This training is for anyone working with young people and who recognises how easily trapped in unhelpful stories we can become – “I’m too fat”, “I’m not clever” “I don’t fit in”. The stories we create for ourselves can be truly liberating, or entrapping. Which stories will you choose to tell?
On this creative and participatory day, we help you to use storytelling in your practice to help those you work with to tell more liberating stories.
This is for you if…
Why focus on stories?
Storytelling is an ancient modality that supports wellbeing and positive mental health by bringing awareness to the significance in one’s own experiences. We can think of stories as providing narrative maps that help us recognise subconscious motivations and barriers, moving us from fear to courage, inspiring us and deepening our relationships.
We are all defined, to different extents, by our pain, our grief and we carry the weight of the many challenging moments in our lives. We hold onto these memories as objective facts, forgetting that how we feel is less about the events themselves and more about what we made them mean. These become the stories we live by.
However, storytelling can help us to understand ‘Our Personal Story’ as part of a process or a cycle, helping us to explore where we might be on a journey, and where we could go next. We begin to create choice. When we change the subjective meaning we’ve given to life events, we open ourselves to the possibility of living a healthier identity, having deeper relationships and being able to bring others with us on that journey.
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