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Nungambakkam, Chennai (PhD in Folklore, MSc in Psychology), 98403 94282, 044 4005 5027 Welcome! Upcoming
Events (October
2022 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 (the methods of which can also be used for
Life Coaching.) --- 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. --- Facilitated by Dr Eric Miller. 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). --- One learns this "Storytelling
Therapy" method by undergoing it oneself. --- 4 Reviews of this training by people who have
participated in the 8-session one-on-one trainings in 2021 are here. --- A Review of this training by a person who
participated in an 11-session group training in 2017 is here. --- This is a combined process, providing 1) Training in a "Storytelling
Therapy" method which can be used for Counselling, Life Coaching,
Personality Development, etc. 2) Counselling and/or Life Coaching,
utilising this method of "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. --- Dr Eric gave an "Introduction to
Storytelling Therapy" for the Sydney Centre for Creative Change, on 19
July 2021 (47 minutes). The recording
is here. --- If possibly interested, please contact
Dr Eric, 98403 94282, eric@storytellinginstitute.org --- From
2017 to 2020, Dr Eric taught this material in a group Course, 3 times each
year. Info about this Course is
below. The currently-offered
one-on-one training covers the same subject matter. --- A Poster about the Course is here. --- This Course
teaches ways to use stories, and the process of storytelling, to increase
people's feelings of well-being.
Personal-experience stories, grandmother stories, and creative
original stories are among the types of stories that would be used. Participants would receive training in
using this method to help themselves and others. --- Applications
of these methods include: * Training in Life
Skills, Soft Skills, and Communication Skills. * Life Coaching. * Facilitating
Personality Development. * Facilitating Healing. * Psychological
Counselling. --- No previous training is required. --- Receiving
training in the Storytelling Therapy method involves undergoing
Counselling and/or Life Coaching according to this method. Thus, this group training process involves
a light form of Group Therapy. --- Facilitated
by Dr
Eric, WSI Director. --- The
Storytelling Therapy method that is taught in this Course is described here. --- Other
writings by Dr Eric regarding Storytelling Therapy can be found here. --- Additional
info about this Course 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 12th March to 14th May 2023. --- A focus of this edition of the
workshop is going to be on using Depth Psychology 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 3rd Oct 2022. --- Links to recordings of tellings (and
discussions) in our past sessions (July 2020 onward), are here. --- We took breaks in Feb 2021 for Chennai Storytelling
Festival 2021 , and in Feb 2022 for Chennai Storytelling
Festival 2022 . --- A suggested story theme for tellings
in this series continues to be, "An
important conversation." --- 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". --- --- --- A recently-held workshop was titled: "Christmas 2021 edition". The stories we worked with are: --- 1) "Brother and Sister",
a fairytale (Germany). --- 2) "The Goose-girl at the Pond",
a fairytale (Germany). --- 3) "The Twelve Windows",
a fairytale (Germany). --- 4) "A Christmas Carol: The
Story of Scrooge", a ghost story (England), written by
Charles Dickens, 1843. --- Additional info about the Workshop is here. --- --- --- Another recently-held workshop was
titled, "Exploring
Fairytales through Psychodrama".
The fairytales and commentaries we
used are here. --- --- --- The 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. --- Additional info is here. *** *** *** Additional
Storytelling Workshops for Adults Date and Location: By request. |
