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Nungambakkam, Chennai (PhD in Folklore, MSc in Psychology), 98403 94282, 044 4005 5027 Welcome! Upcoming
Events (March
2023 onward) via
Zoom Videoconference and in
Chennai Info about regularly-scheduled
Storytelling activities by various individuals and organisations in Chennai
is here. _________________________ 1)
One-on-one Training in "Storytelling Therapy." This process includes the trainee
undergoing Storytelling Therapy. That
is, one learns this method in-part by undergoing it oneself. 8 weekly (60-minute) one-on-one
sessions. Days and times to be arranged. Via Zoom, or at Dr Eric's office near Nungambakkam High Road, Chennai. Reviews of this training are here. The process provides: 1) Training in
"Storytelling Therapy" – which can be used for Counselling, Life
Coaching, Personality Development, etc. 2) Counselling and Life
Coaching utilising Storytelling Therapy. 3) Coaching in Story
Composition (Creative Writing), because composing a Healing / Transforming
story for oneself is an essential part of the Storytelling Therapy process. The Storytelling Therapy method has 8
steps: 1) Tell one's "Life story". 2) The listener may share similar
experiences. 3) Identify turning points,
outstanding elements, and themes in one's Life story. 4) Seek to bring to mind metaphors for
aspects of one's Life story. 5) Gather "Associative
stories" in relation to each of the identified themes in one's Life
story. 6) Add to and otherwise modify any of
the above-mentioned stories. 7) Speak to and as characters in one's
memory and imagination. 8) Compose a "Healing story"
(and/or an "Inspiring / Encouraging / Guiding / Integrating / Transforming
story".) As part of Step No. 7 ("Speak to
and as characters in one's memory and imagination"), the "Active Imagination"
technique that was first developed by Carl Jung would be used. Storytelling Therapy involves ways to
use stories, and the process of storytelling, to increase people's feelings
of well-being. The kinds of stories used in the
Storytelling Therapy process include Animal Fables; Fairytales; episodes of
Epics; Stories from participants' favorite Movies, Plays, and Novels;
Historical Stories; Personal-experience Stories; and Original Creative
stories. Fairytale
Therapy, one type of Storytelling
Therapy, would be a part of this training. The Storytelling Therapy process
includes looking at traditional stories in one's own culture for characters and
situations that could serve as metaphors for one's psychological
tendencies. Why should such metaphors
appear only in the form of characters from ancient Greece (Oedipus,
Narcissus, Eros, the Furies, etc)?
More about this approach is here. This training is given by Dr Eric
Miller. Dr Eric's Education: *
MSc in Psychology, U. of Madras (2018). *
PhD in Folklore, U. of Pennsylvania (2010). *
One-year Course in Counselling,
Chennai Counsellors Foundation
(2016). *
Six-week Course in Life Coaching,
Soul Symphony (based in Chennai) (2020). From 2017 to 2020, Dr Eric taught this
material in a group Course, 3 times each year. A Poster about the Course is here. Now Dr Eric gives this training one-on-one. No previous training is required. Training Fee: Rs 24,000. If possibly interested, please contact
Dr Eric. Contact info and additional info about
this training is here. 2)
Workshop on "Storytelling" (for
Adults). 10 weekly group sessions, on Sundays, 7pm to 9pm. The next edition of this Workshop
would occur 25th June to 27th August 2023. A focus of this edition of the
workshop is going to be on using techniques of Carl Jung and others to access
from one's personal and collective unconscious material that one could use to
create stories. Via Zoom videoconference. Facilitated by Dr Eric,
WSI Director. Graduates of this Workshop could
continue for Certification
as a Professional Storyteller. Additional info about this Workshop is
here. 3)
"Storytelling by and for Adults." This is an open-mic storytelling
series via Zoom (on the first Monday of each month, starting at 6pm India
time). Admission is
free. To register, please send an
email to info@storytellinginstitute.org Upcoming Session: Monday 1st May 2023. Links to recordings of tellings (and
discussions) in our past sessions (July 2020 onward), are here. A
theme for tellings in this series is letting characters speak for
themselves (in monologue and dialogue). If you have already attended a session
of this series, you are registered and would reveive the Zoom links via
email. If you have not yet attended a session in the series -- To register, please send an email to info@storytellinginstitute.org Facilitated by Dr Eric,
WSI Director. For the first seven years of this
series (beginning in 2013) this series
occurred in a Cafe Coffee Day in Chennai. From April 2020 it has occurred via Zoom
videoconference. 4)
Workshops on "Psychodrama and Storytelling". One workshop was titled, "Exploring
Fairytales through Psychodrama".
The fairytales and commentaries we
used are here. Stories we would be working with in an upcoming workshop (no dates yet)
include: * Silappathikaram
(Epic of the Ankle
Bracelet) (Tamil Nadu, India). * Odysseus
and the Trojan War (ancient Greece). * The
Tempest (England, 1610, William Shakespeare's
final play). Workshop Facilitators: Ms Magdalene
Jeyarathnam (Psychodrama), Dr Eric Miller
(Storytelling). 5)
"Creative Writing" Coaching for
Teenagers and Adults. Facilitated by Dr Eric,
WSI Director. |
