Chennai
Storytelling Festival 2021:
The Healing Power of Story,
Storytelling, and Story-enacting
( CSF2021-HPSx3 )
Sat 6th to Sun 28th Feb 2021
Featuring:
B) Workshops (29).
D) Storytelling and
Resonations Sessions (4).
E) Storytelling and
Discussion Sessions (2).
F) Dream-sharing and
Discussion Sessions (4).
G) Interactive Talk.
H) Tamil Storytelling Session.
I) Telegu Storytelling Session.
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The Chennai Storytelling Festival's
Online
Video Library -- featuring
links
to recordings of many CSF 2021 events --
is here.
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The Schedule of the 143 (English language)
Storytellings in CSF 2021 is here.
A List of the 143
(English language)
Storytellers in CSF 2021 is here.
A List of the 29 Workshops in CSF 2021
is here.
The
full Schedule of the 4 (27-hour) sets of
CSF
2021 is here.
Info
about the Festival's Tamil Storytelling
Session
is here.
Info
about the Festival's Telegu Storytelling
Session
is here.
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Festival
Welcome Address (5 minutes).
From Geeta Ramanujam,
* Founder of the Storytelling Revival in India,
* Co-founder and Co-facilitator (with Eric)
of the Indian Storytelling Network, and
* Founder and Director of Kathalaya (Bangalore).
From Eric:
Notes on Storytelling and Healing are here.
Notes
on Storytelling and Videoconferencing are here.
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The
online "Poster" for CSF 2021
(featuring
photos of the Festival's 160 Presenters) is here.
Five
Flyers for CSF 2021 (please choose your
favourite)
are
at,
https://storytellinginstitute.org/CSF2021Flyer_A.html
https://storytellinginstitute.org/CSF2021Flyer_B.html
https://storytellinginstitute.org/CSF2021Flyer_C.html
https://storytellinginstitute.org/CSF2021Flyer_D.html
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Just
for general interest:
Posters
for the past 3 editions of the CSF are at
https://storytellinginstitute.org/CSF2018Poster.jpg
.
https://storytellinginstitute.org/CSF2019Poster.jpg
.
https://storytellinginstitute.org/CSF2020Poster.jpg
.
Some documentation of CSF 2020
(which
occurred in Feb 2020) is here.
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CSF 2021
Schedule
Times
for the following CSF 2021 events are given
in
India time.
For
time-conversions in other locations, please see
https://www.thetimezoneconverter.com
CSF 2021 Zoom sets would occur
1)
From Sat 6th
Feb, 6:30pm -- going for 27 hours.
2)
From Sat
13th Feb, 6:30pm -- going for 27 hours.
3)
From Sat
20th Feb, 6:30pm -- going for 27 hours.
4)
From Sat
27th Feb, 6:30pm -- going for 27 hours.
Also:
A) Telegu Storytelling
Session
at
3pm-5:30pm on Sat 13th Feb.
at
3pm-5:30pm on Sat 20th Feb.
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To register to attend any or all CSF 2021
Zoom
events, please send an email request to
info@storytellinginstitute.org
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Admission
to all Zoom events of CSF 2021
is
FREE.
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The
Chennai Storytelling Festival's online
video
library is here.
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Contributions
to CSF 2021 and to individual
Presenters
are welcome!
Two ways to give a contribution to CSF
2021 are,
1) Google Pay -- 98403 94282 (in India).
2) Paypal --
https://paypal.com/paypalme/eric4story
To give a
contribution to a Presenter,
please do a
Search ("Find") on the person's
name at
https://storytellinginstitute.org/CSF2021_Presenters.html
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The
Chennai Storytelling Festival is presented
by
the World Storytelling Institute, in association
with
the Chennai Storytellers group and other
organisations
and individuals.
The World
Storytelling Institute is an NGO
registered
in Chennai, south India.
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CSF2021-HPSx3
features:
B) Workshops (29).
C) Storytelling and
Resonations Sessions (4).
D) Dream-sharing Sessions
(3).
F) Storytelling and
Discussion Sessions (2).
G) Panel Discussion.
H) Tamil Storytelling
Session.
I) Telegu Storytelling
Session.
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A) Storytellings
Each
storytelling would go for up-to-10 minutes
and would be
immediately followed by up-to-10-
minutes of
appreciative discussion about the
story and the way
it had been told, and possibly
some role-play
with story characters.
The role-playing
may involve session participants
(imaginatively,
and very respectfully) speaking to
and as
characters in the story that has just been
told. We do this to further immerse ourselves in
the
stories. This activity often leads to
interesting
discoveries
about the stories, and our reactions
to them.
Storytellers (144)
(Some are also
Session Leaders.)
In alphabetical
order --
Akanksha
Thakore (Chennai).
Alette
Willis (Scotland).
Allison
Quaid (Germany).
Alma
Dhingra (Gurugram, also known as Gurgaon).
Ambujavalli
N. (Chennai).
Amy
Oestreicher (Connecticut, USA).
Anamika
Bhati (Singapore).
Angela
Halvorsen Bogo (Norway).
Apoorva
Dheekaw (New Delhi).
Bandan
Preet Mahajan (New Delhi).
Banu
H. (Chennai).
Barry
Stewart Mann (Georgia, USA).
(Baya)
Beatrice Salmon-Hawk (Ireland).
Bruce
Kirchoff (North Carolina, USA).
Carrie Sue
Ayvar (Florida, USA).
Connie
Regan-Blake (North Carolina, USA).
David
Heathfield (England).
Debarati
Banerjee (Hyderabad).
Debjani
Bhaduri (Chennai).
Denise
McCormack (New Jersey, USA).
Devina
Rijhwani (Mumbai).
Dimple
Tahilramani (Pune).
Divya Anand
(Chennai).
Divya
N. (Chennai).
Donna
Dudinsky (Canada).
Ed Lewis
(California, USA).
Elisa
Pearmain (Boston, USA).
Eva Abram
(Washington, USA).
Eva Grayzel
(New York, USA).
Faye
Mogensen (Canada).
Geetha
Subramanian (Coimbatore).
Geethanjali
Javed (Chennai).
Geetanjali
Shetty Kaul (Mumbai).
Giorgiana
Elena Popan (Romania).
Howard
Lieberman (Minnesota, USA).
Indu Divya
(Chennai).
Jangid
Pushkar (New Delhi).
Jasmine
Carvalho (Canada).
Jaya Singh
(Jaipur).
Jeff Gere
(Hawaii, USA).
Jennifer
Ramsay (Spain).
John
Richardson (California, USA).
Judith
Heineman (New York, USA).
Judy
England-McCarthy (New Jersey, USA).
Juliet
Bruce (New York, USA).
June
Brown (Canada).
Jyoti Arya
(Chennai).
Jyoti
Pande (Bhopal).
Karen
Golden (California, USA).
Karen
Gummo (Canada).
Katherine
Barron (North Carolina, USA).
Kevin
Cordi (Ohio, USA).
Khushboo
Chokhani (Jaipur).
Lani
Peterson (Massachusetts, USA).
Latha
Vydianathan (Hyderabad).
Lavanya
Prasad (Bangalore).
Lavanya
Srinivas (Chennai).
Laura
Simms (New York, USA).
Leena
Kulkarni (Pune).
Lopamudra
Mohanty (Mumbai).
Lynn Torrie
(Canada).
C.
Mangalam Senthil (Coimbatore).
Mani
Nachiappan (Chennai).
Manisha
Bhise (Mumbai).
Maricris
Basto (Philippines).
Marijana
Mrvos (Croatia).
Mary
Kuttikadan (Mumbai).
Mary
Louise Chown (Canada).
Mashuda
Muthi (Chennai).
Meenu
S. (Bangalore).
Meera
Venkatesan (Bangalore).
Meher Gehi
(Mumbai).
Nagarajan
S. (Chennai).
Nageswara
Rao (Chennai).
Nancy
Jacobs (California, USA).
Nandita
Sankaran (Bangalore).
Nidhi
Bagaria (Mumbai).
Nilgün
Yalay (New Zealand).
Norah
Dooley (Massachusetts, USA).
Padma
Jairam (Chennai).
Mee.
Pandiarajan (Chennai).
Pankhuri
Agrawal (Raipur).
Parul
Kansara (Hyderabad).
Parvathy
Eswaran (Bangalore).
Paula
Martin (Argentina).
Poonam
Joshy (Bangalore).
Prakrati
Agrawal (Bangalore).
Pratibha
Ashtaputre (Bhilai, Chhattisgarh).
H.
M. Prathiba (Chennai).
Pretigaya
Haran (Chennai).
Priya
Palanikumar (Chennai).
Rachael
Harrington (New York, USA).
Rachna
Chowla (Mumbai).
Radha
Balaraman (Chennai).
Ramya Iyer
(Bangalore).
Ramya
Srinidhi (Bangalore).
Ranjani
Pandian (Chennai).
Renu Mira
(Chennai),
Renu
Narayan (Chennai).
Richard
Swanson (Michigan, USA).
Rinah
Sheleff (Israel).
Rona
Barbour (Scotland).
Rona
Leventhal (Massachusetts, USA).
Roopa
Mohan (California, USA).
Sahil
Raina (Mumbai).
Salome D.
(Mumbai).
Sandhya
Naren (Mangalore).
Sandhya
Ruban (Chennai).
Sangitaa
Sehgall (Visakhapatnam).
Sanjeev
Kumar Singhal (Nepal).
Seema Wahi
Mukherjee (New Delhi).
Selina
Eisenberg (Canada).
Shan
Shanmugasundaram (Chennai).
Sharada
Ryali (Hyderabad).
Sharmilee
Muralidharan (Chennai).
Shital
Ravi (Mumbai).
Shital
Rayathatha (Chennai).
Shivani
Dhillion (Chandigarh).
Shreya
Biswas (Bangalore).
Shyama
Shridharan (Chennai).
Sikha
Gurung (Nepal).
Simran
Nagwani (Mumbai).
Smita
Rajan (Mumbai).
Sonia
Bareja Punhani (New Delhi).
Sowmya
Srinivasan (Bangalore).
Sreelekha
R. (Chennai).
Sridevi
Srinivasan (Chennai).
Srividya
Veeraraghavan (Chennai).
Sristi
Sengupta (Kolkata).
Steve
Daut (Michigan, USA).
Sudha Umashanker
(Chennai).
Sue Hodson
(South Africa).
Surbhi
Sarna (Bhubaneswar).
Thenmozhi S
(Chennai).
Tracy Sue
Walker (Georgia, USA).
Uma Jairam
Iyer (Chennai).
Vaishali
Raithatha (England).
Valentina
Ortiz Pandolfi (Mexico).
Vasugi Ram
Manohar (Chennai).
Vernyce
Dannells (Delaware, USA).
Vignesh
Raja (Chennai).
Vithya
Dhanaraj (Chennai).
Wangari
Grace (Kenya).
Xina
Mercken (Amsterdam).
Zarin
Maraikayar (Chennai).
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B) Workshops relating
to
Storytelling and
Healing (29)
Duration of all
Workshops: 85 minutes.
The following times are given in India time
and in the
Presenter's time.
For the times in
other time-zones, please see
https://www.thetimezoneconverter.com
1
"The
Transformational Magic of Play,
Creativity,
and Ritual in Storytelling."
Play, ritual,
and creativity can increase the
magic of
storytelling. Come help ignite the
magic at the
start of the Festival. Creating
a connected,
expanded, playful space, allows
spirit to live
in us, so that stories touch, heal,
strengthen, or
renew. We will play with various
elements. Please bring to the session as
many of these as
you can: 1) A candle, or a
packet of
birthday candles. 2) A box of matches.
3) A small cake
or muffin. 4) A flower. 5) Water.
6) Ice.
Angela
Halvorsen Bogo (Oslo, Norway).
Starting at
6:30pm on Sat
6th Feb (India time).
2:00pm on Sat 6th Feb (Norway time).
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"Exploring
Stories through Process
Drama and
Restorative Justice."
Barry
Stewart Mann (Georgia, USA).
Starting at
8:30am on Sun
7th Feb (India time).
10:00pm on Sat 6th Feb (Georgia,
USA time).
3
"Group
Improvised Storytelling."
This workshop is
about telling improvised
group
stories. All storytelling depends on
a strong
narrative. When we tell group
improvised
stories, the narrative element
supports us and
provides a framework
through which we
can connect around a
common
theme. This workshop introduces
group
improvisational storytelling and explores
group-mind
through hands-on activities and
side-coaching. We will study a bit about
classic story
structure, then dive right into
telling stories
in breakout rooms.
Bruce
Kirchoff and Katherine
Barron (North Carolina, USA).
Starting at
6:30am on Sun
21st Feb (India time).
8:00pm on Sat 20th Feb (North
Carolina, USA time).
4
"Creative
Storytelling for Resilience,
Empathy, and
Change."
David
Heathfield (England).
Starting at
7:30pm on Sat
27th Feb (India time).
2:00pm on Sat 27th Feb (England
time).
5
Workshop: "Narrative Therapy:
The smallest
of actions that set off people’s preferred stories’"
In this workshop
David Newman will speak
about some of
the forces that can serve to
dishonour,
dismiss or obscure such action.
He will then
share some options for honouring
such actions and
ways to build preferred
storylines.
As Michael White, one of the originators
of Narrative
Therapy, said when referring to
what people and
communities do in the face
of trauma,
"People are never passive recipients
to trauma. People are always responding to
what they have
been put through." Yet there
are many ways
action and responses people
make to address
trauma in their lives can get
dishonoured,
dismissed or obscured and
therefore
potential preferred storylines lost.
David
Newman (Sydney, Australia),
Starting at
10:00am on Sun
7th Feb (India time).
3:30pm on Sun 7th Feb (Sydney, Australia time).
6
"Understanding
Archetypal Elements as
a Tool for Reflecting
on One's Life Story,"
Denise
McCormack (New Jersey, USA),
Starting at
5:30am on Sun
28th Feb (India time).
7:00pm on Sat 27th Feb (New Jersey, USA time).
7
"Forgiveness:
Telling Our Stories in
Healthier
Ways,"
Elisa
Pearmain (Massachusetts, USA),
Starting at
7:30pm on Sun
21st Feb (India time).
9:00am on Sun 21st Feb (Mass,
USA time).
8
"Create
Your Own Fantasy Healing-story,"
Eric Miller
(Chennai),
Starting at
12:30am on Sun
28th Feb (India time).
9
"Organic Storytelling: Movement Efforts
and Storytelling for Self-awareness and
Personal Growth."
This workshop includes a type of enacting that
Gail calls "Organic Storytelling with Movement
Energy Efforts." Gail (a storyteller and educator)
will introduce a way to look at human energy and
will share her experiences with students. Jean
(a psychologist and educator) will share some of
her own findings about the importance of enacting
both with clients and with herself. Their belief is
that “trying on” different voices, characters,
postures, and movement actions gives students
and adults more familiarity with options — more
ways to communicate and work with people in
various situations.
Storytelling is healthy and can
lead to personal growth as well as creative
experiences.
Gail Herman
and Jean
Pao Wilson (Massachusetts, USA),
Starting at
12:00am on Sun
14th Feb (India time).
1:30pm on Sat 13th Feb (Mass,
USA time).
10
"Ways to
Give Senses of Completion, Closure,
Wholeness, and
Peace When Ending Stories
and
Storytellings."
Discover ways
satisfying endings of stories
work on the
psyche, and have the power to
heal the
listener as well as the teller. This
Workshop would
provide a toolkit for aligning
head, heart, and
body, and through story
endings; and for
leaving one's listeners
feeling warm and
floating, that euphoric
feeling one gets
after reading a good book.
Geetanjali
Shetty Kaul (Mumbai).
Starting at
3:30pm on Sun
28th Feb (India time).
11
"Developing
a 'Narrative Mindset': When You
Think Story,
Story Happens and Matters."
Dr. Kevin Cordi
shares how we may be "wired
for
stories" (Cron, 2012) but if we don’t know
how to use the
wiring, we can't be charged-up
for
stories. Drawing on Carol Dweck's idea
of
growth and fixed
mindset (2007), learn how to
use story to
make meaning, whether you are
on the public
stage or simply engaging in the
day. Discover what happens when we think
and act "in
story." This work builds an aware-
ness of how
adopting a "narrative mindset"
(Cordi, 2018)
can change the way you act,
react, think,
and move with story as your guide.
Participants
will be equipped with how to re-think
using
narrative-based reframing and other
strategies. They will walk away valuing not
only how a story
is told, but also how it can be
used, and can be
used to make meaning.
Kevin
Cordi (Ohio, USA),
Starting at
3:00am on Sun
14th Feb (India time).
4:30pm on Sat 13th Feb (Ohio,
USA time).
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"Storytelling
for Connection, Insight,
and
Transformation."
The stories we
live and hear influence
the paths we
choose to walk and the
meaning we make
of the road we are on.
Some of our
defining stories become
sustaining
stories, providing the perspective,
clarity, and
courage to carry us where we
want to go. Others become constraining
stories, filled
with messages that keep us
paralyzed,
anxious, and stuck. Through
discussion and
theory integrated through
experiential
activities, we will explore some
of the healing
story ideas and tools to help
us recognize,
understand, and shift
constraining stories to become fuller
sustaining
stories that empower us to
create the story
we want to live.
Lani
Peterson (Massachusetts, USA),
Starting at
9:00pm on Sat
13th Feb (India time).
10:30am on Sat 13th Feb (Mass,
USA time).
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"The
Medicine Inside the Spoken Image."
In this workshop
we would explore ways a
story can
prepare us for healing ourselves,
for being in our
being, and for restoring our
connection to
the earth, to nature, to each
other, and to the
spirit that informs the heart.
Laura
Simms (New York, USA),
Starting at
10:30pm on Sat
13th Feb (India time).
12 Noon on Sat 13th Feb
(NY, USA time).
14
"Storytelling
for Helping Adults to
Develop
Emotional Intelligence"
(for
people who work with adults),
Lavanya
Srinivas (Chennai)
Starting at
3:00pm on Sun
21st Feb (India time).
15
"Story in
Psychodrama, and in other
Aspects of
Expressive Arts Therapy,"
Magdalene
Jeyarathnam (Chennai),
Starting at
8:30pm on Sat
20th Feb (India time).
16
"Storytelling
for Helping Children
to
Develop Emotional Intelligence"
(for
people who work with children),
Mashuda
Muthi (Chennai).
Starting at
9:30am on Sun
14th Feb (India time).
17
"The Power
of Telling: High School Students
Grow and Heal
While Telling Their Stories"
(especially for
adults who work with high
school students,
or who would like to do so).
Norah
Dooley (Massachusetts, USA),
Starting at
9:30pm on Sat
6th Feb (India time).
11:00am on Sat 6th Feb (Mass,
USA time).
18
"Storytelling
and Conversations about Death
and Grief."
In many societies, death is a taboo subject.
Yet death is very much part of our lives and
doesn’t always have to be negative and morbid.
What better way than to use storytelling to
bypass this taboo and allow some of our feelings
and thoughts about death to come to the surface?
In this workshop Rebecca, who is also a Reiki
and meditation practitioner and teacher,
endeavours to create a safe space during
which she tells traditional stories about death
and grief (sometimes lighthearted, sometimes
humorous, and sometimes emotional), and
facilitates short meditations, activities, and
conversations around the stories. Come along
with an open mind and heart, and see what
comes up. You
are welcome to attend even
if you don’t wish to speak. You might want to
bring pencils and paper if you wish to draw or
paint
as a response.
Rebecca
Lemaire (Spain).
Starting at
11:30pm on Sat
20th Feb (India time).
7:00pm on Sat 20th Feb (Spain time).
19
"The 7 Powers of Story Intelligence."
In this
interactive workshop, Richard Stone
will introduce
you to Story Intelligence (SQ).
By mastering
your SQ, you’ll amplify and
unleash every
aspect of your intelligence,
including your
IQ and EQ, and build a more
durable source
of meaning and personal
fulfillment. The workshop will introduce you
to ways to use
your Story Intelligence to:
• Live with
greater efficacy.
• Become a more
powerful communicator.
• Solve
difficult life challenges.
• Transform your
workplace and community.
• Heal old
wounds and change dysfunctional beliefs.
• Craft a more
desirable future.
Rick
Stone (Georgia, USA).
Starting at
2:00am on Sun
28th Feb (India time).
3:30pm on Sat 27th Feb (NY, USA time).
20
"Create a
Healing Fairy Tale."
Creating your
own healing fairy tale
is a magical
experience. It can put
you in touch
with your fairy godmother
whose wise words
can soothe old pain
and turn them
into insight, compassion,
and empowering
beliefs. Creating a tale
is easier than
you might imagine. In this
workshop, you'll
receive a guide for writing
a healing tale
and you'll start writing your
own. No experience is needed. Examples
of healing fairy
tales are at
Allison
Quaid (Germany).
Starting at
7:30pm on Sat
13th Feb (India time).
3:00pm on Sat 13th Feb (Germany time).
21
"Designing
Storytelling for Healing."
Shan
Shanmugasundaram (Chennai).
Starting at
10:00am on Sun
28th Feb (India time).
22
"Storytelling
to Move Inwards: Using Body,
Mind, and
Emotions,"
Smita
Rajan (Mumbai),
Starting at
1:30pm on Sun
7th Feb (India time).
23
"Mindfulness
and Storytelling."
* Are you just a
Storyteller, or are you also a
Story Catcher?
* Do you just
tell Stories, or do you also have
a knack to
listen?
* Are you Mind
Full or Mindful?
Humans are the
creators and consumers of stories.
While
Storytelling, we are being present with ourselves
and our
isteners. And in a Mindful setting, storytelling
helps people to
connect with their intuition.
Come be a part
of our unique workshop, designed to
bring
Mindfulness into the Art of Storytelling through
informal and
formal practices.
Sonia
Bareja Punhani (New Delhi).
Starting at
Noon on Sun 14th
Feb (India time).
24
"Building Connection
and Empathy through
Storytelling."
Storytelling is, at its most basic, an act
of
connection. We connect not only through
our words, but through our relationship to
the stories we tell, and the emotional
energy
we bring to them stories. In this workshop,
you will participate in exercises to
explore
stories of connection and to expand your
emotional openness in a group. We will
also explore ways to make difficult
stories
safe through the use of humor.
Steve
Daut (Michigan, USA).
Starting at
3:00am on Sun
21st Feb (India time).
4:30pm on Sat 20th Feb (Michigan,
USA time).
25
"Using Therapeutic Stories with Children,
Teenagers, and
Adults."
In this
Workshop, we will explore the potential
of the genre of
therapeutic stories …
stories to
soothe, help, motivate, give hope, and
build resilience
(with children, teens, and adults).
A range of
examples of therapeutic stories for
people of different
ages will be shared, a therapeutic
story-writing
framework will be introduced, and
participants
will be guided through a story-making
exercise. There will also be time for discussion.
Susan
Perrow (near Sydney, Australia).
Starting at
4:30am on Sun
7th Feb (India time).
10:00am on Sun 7th Feb (Sydney, Australia time).
26
"Parallel
Narratives: Using Metaphor and
Magic to
Transform Life Stories,"
Trish
Denton (Vermont, USA)
Starting at
9:00pm on Sat
27th Feb (India time).
10:30am on Sat 27th Feb (Vermont, USA time).
27
"
'Ko Au, Ko Koe' ('I Am, You Are')."
This is an
identity and forgiveness workshop
that encourages
the storyteller to look within
and understand
how we relate to others.
We use
Storytelling to navigate the pathway
to forgiveness,
and ultimately, healing.
I draw upon
Storytelling tools (terminology,
customs, rhythm,
movement) from my
Moana Pacific
ancestry to guide us.
Tuaratini
(New Zealand),
Starting at
11:30am on Sun
21st Feb (India time).
7:00pm on Sun 21st Feb (New Zealand time).
28
"A Kenyan
Interactive Approach to Storytelling."
Wangari
Grace (Kenya).
Starting at
7:00pm on Sat
20th Feb (India time).
4:30pm on Sat 20th Feb (Kenya time).
29
"The Story
Within: Myth and Fairy Tale in Therapy,"
This workshop
introduces participants to
"The Story
Within: Myth and Fairy Tale in Therapy,"
an arts based
therapeutic approach that involves
a creative and
reflective relationship with a character
and story. Yehudit Silverman (MA, R-DMT, RDT)
developed this
approach out of her 25 years of
clinical
practice and teaching it to graduate students
at Concordia
University where she was Chair and
Professor in the
Department of Creative Arts Therapies.
She will lead
participants through a series of reflective
and creative
exercises.
Yehudit
Silverman (Montreal, Canada),
Starting at
8:00pm on Sat 6th
Feb (India time).
9:30am on Sat 6th Feb (Montreal, Canada time).
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C) Healing Story
Circles (2).
The session
leaders would say some opening
words and then
participants could tell related
personal-experience
stories and other stories.
1) Led by Ramya Iyer
(Bangalore).
Starting at
5:00pm on Sun
7th Feb (India time)
(Duration: 85
minutes).
2) Led by leaders of the
Indian
Storytellers Healing
Network --
a) Geetanjali
Shetty Kaul (Mumbai).
b) Jyoti Pande
(Bhopal).
c) Poonam
Joshy (Bangalore).
d) Sangitaa
Sehgall (New Delhi).
e) Sowmya
Srinivasan (Bangalore).
Starting at
5:00pm on Sun
21st Feb (India time).
(Duration: 85
minutes).
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D) Storytelling and Resonations Sessions (4).
In these
sessions, the session leader would tell a story,
and
then all could share "resonations" -- thoughts,
feelings,
and experiences raised by the telling of the
story.
1) (Baya)
Beatrice Salmon-Hawk: "Inanna."
Starting at
1:00am on Sun
7th Feb (India time).
7:30pm on Sat 6th Feb (Ireland time).
(Duration: 55
minutes).
2) Juliet
Bruce: "Firebird."
Juliet writes:
The old stories live on
in our modern lives. As our
world begins to emerge from
a traumatic time, we
will be left with over a
third of the population afflicted
with post-traumatic
depression, anxiety, and despair.
The famous Russian
folktale, “The Firebird,” with Its
vivid images, stark
drama, and guidance from an
avatar of the healing
imagination, has helped many
of my clients and their
healers re-ignite resiliency
and courage to take
life-affirming action.
Starting at
10:00pm on Sat
20th Feb (India time).
11:30am on Sat 20th Feb (New York, USA time).
(Duration: 85
minutes).
3) Laura
Simms: "The Demon in the Tower."
Starting at
10:30pm on Sat
27th Feb (India time).
12 Noon on Sat 27th Feb
(New York, USA time).
(Duration: 115 minutes).
4) Nilgün
Yalay: "The Seal Woman"
(a folktale in Women Who Run with the Wolves).
Starting at
6:30am on Sun
14th Feb (India time).
2:00pm on Sun 14th Feb (New Zealand time).
(Duration: 55
minutes).
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E) Storytelling and Discussion sessions (2).
1) "The Earth Stories
Collection"
project would be
described, and some of the
stories in the
collection would be told.
---
The
Earth Stories Collection: How to Make
Another
World Possible with Myths, Legends
---
The Earth
Stories Collection is a global project
involving of a
repository of myths, legends,
fables, and
folktales from cultures around the
planet. The project features education, advocacy,
andacti vism
relating to supporting and nurturing
the environment.
---
The session would be led by
a) Donald
Smith (Scotland).
b) Grian
Culanda (Spain).
c) Jennifer
Ramsay (Spain).
d) Alette
Willis (Scotland).
---
Starting at
1:30am on Sun 14th Feb
(India time).
8:00pm on Sat 13th Feb
(Scotland time).
9:00pm on Sat 13th Feb (Spain time).
(Duration: 55
minutes).
2) "Storytelling and Healing
in the Time of Covid"
Shreya
Biswas and Katharangam team members
(Bangalore /
Kolkata).
Starting at
2:30pm on Sun 28th Feb
(India time).
(Duration: 25
minutes).
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F) Dream-sharing and Discussion
Sessions (4).
Starting at
4:30pm on Sun 7th
Feb (India time). (25 minutes.)
4:30pm on Sun
14th Feb (India time). (115
minutes.)
6:30pm on Sat
20th Feb (India time). (25 minutes.)
6:30pm on Sat
27th Feb (India time). (55 minutes.)
Attendees would
be invited to tell dreams
they have
had. Some dreams might be
enacted.
One topic of
discussion would be:
"In what
ways could telling stories -- including
dreams --
assist, stimulate, and support healing
processes?"
These sessions
would be faciliated by Eric Miller.
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G) Interactive Talk.
Alida
Gersie (a long-time leader of the field
of Drama
Therapy) speaks about
"Ways
Grandmother Stories Could be Used
Therapeutically."
Starting
at
6:30pm
on Sat 13th Feb (India time).
1:00pm on Sat 13th Feb (England time).
(Duration: 55
minutes).
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H) Tamil Storytelling Session.
3:00pm to 5:45pm
on Sat 20th Feb (India time).
Facilitated by Sudha
Umashankar, 98402 47624.
The Flyer is here.
The Storytellers
are listed here.
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I) Telugu Storytelling Session.
3:00pm to 5:30pm
on Sat 13th Feb (India time).
Facilitated by Lavanya
Srinivas, 98844 72301.
The Flyer is here.
The Storytellers
are listed here.
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