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Nungambakkam, Chennai (PhD in Folklore, MSc in Psychology), 98403 94282, 044 4005 5027 Welcome! Upcoming
Events (January
2023 onward) via
Zoom Videoconference and in
Chennai Info about regularly-scheduled
Storytelling activities by various individuals and organisations in Chennai
is here. _________________________ 1)
Chennai Storytelling Festival 2023. This is the
Festival's 11th annual edition. The Festival
would occur on 4 Weekends – Friday 3rd to Sunday 26th February. All
Free! All Zoom! To register,
please email a request to info@storytellinginstitute.org The
("clickable") CSF 2023 poster is here. The
Festival's 66 workshops are listed here. The
Festival's 102 presenters are listed here. The list of
presenters, with timings and session descriptions, is here. The Festival
schedule in "India time" is here. The Festival
schedule in "Canada and USA
Eastern time" is here. Overall info
about the Festival is here. 2)
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. 3)
Workshop on "Storytelling" (for
Adults). 10 weekly group sessions, on Sundays, 7pm to 9pm. The next edition of this Workshop
would occur 12th March to 14th May 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. 4)
"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 3rd April
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
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