Chennai Storytelling Festival 2023

 

This would be the Festival's 11th annual edition.  Occuring on the 4 weekends of February 2023.

 

All free!

 

All Zoom!  (With 3 hybrid Storytelling sessions that one could join in-person in Chennai, or via Zoom.)

 

The Festival's homepage is here.

There one could find

1) Lists of the Festival's Workshops and Workshop Leaders, and Storytellers,

2) The Festival schedule,

3) How to register,

and more.

 

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The theme of the Chennai Storytelling Festival is: Storytelling and

Growing, Maturing, Gaining Freedom from Oppression, Teaching and Learning, Playing, Creating, Transforming, and/or Healing among Individuals and Groups -- and the Healing of the Environment."

 

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The CSF currently has 30 Topic Groups  (listed below).  To join any of these Topic Groups -- and/or to start a new Topic Group -- please send an email to  info@storytellinginstitute.org

 

Most of these topic groups have not been very active in relation to CSF 2023 (in Feb 2023).  They might be more active in relation to CSF 2024 (in Feb 2024).

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30 Topic Groups in

Chennai Storytelling Festival  

 

1) CSF-ADHD

2) CSF-Autism

3) CSF-Buddhism

4) CSF-Business

5) CSF-Children

6) CSF-Christianity

7) CSF-Domestic-Violence

8) CSF-Ecology

9) CSF-Expressive-Arts-Therapy

10) CSF-Great-Mother-Culture

11) CSF-Hinduism

12) CSF-Indigenous

13) CSF-Islam

14) CSF-Judaism

15) CSF-Kintsugi

16) CSF-Laughter

17) CSF-Miscarriage

18) CSF-Mindfulness

19) CSF-Parents-and-Children

20) CSF-Psychodrama

21) CSF-Rationalism

22) CSF-Reconnecting

23) CSF-Reviving

24) CSF-Shamanism

25) CSF-Storytelling-Therapy

26) CSF-Sufism

27) CSF-Transpersonal

28) CSF-Trauma

29) CSF-Tree-of-Life

30) CSF-Ways-of-Storytelling

 

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1

Ways storytelling can facilitate growing, maturing, learning, playing, creating, and/or transforming in relation to ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder).

 

Audra Sisak.

Eric Miller.

Jaya Singh.

Haritha K.

Kanagadurga Ramesh.

Mary Kuttikadan.

Meenakshi Sharma.

Nidhi Gujral.

Shital Ravi.

Shivani Dhillon.

Sindhu Shanker.

 

Group email ID: 

CSF-ADHD@googlegroups.com

 

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2

Ways storytelling can facilitate growing, maturing, learning, playing, creating, and/or transforming in relation to Autism.

 

Audra Sisak.

Banumathy H.

Eric Miller.

Haritha K.

Jaya Singh.

Kanagadurga Ramesh.

Karen Golden.

Lavanya Srinivas.

Maricris Basto.

Mary Kuttikadan.

Meenakshi Sharma.

Nidhi Gujral.

Shital Ravi.

Shivani Dhillon.

Sindhu Shanker.

Surekha Dey.

 

Group email ID: 

CSF-Autism@googlegroups.com

 

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3

Ways storytelling can facilitate growing, maturing, learning, creating, transforming, and/or healing in Buddhism.

 

Aparna Athreya (working with

Zen parables).

Debjani Bhaduri.

Geetanjali Shetty (working wih

"Loving kindness",

Metta/Maitri).

Jyoti Pande.

Laura Simms.

Lavanya Prasad.

Manisha Bhise.

Meenakshi Sharma.

Meher Gehi.

Nagarajan S.

Niyati Mehta.

Prakrati Agrawal (working with

Zen parables).

Priya Narayan.

Sandhya Naren.

Sharada Ryali.

Shilpa Mehta.

Sreelekha Ramachandran.

Sristi Sengupta (working with

Tibetan Buddhist literature, especially the writings of

Guru Rinpoche).

Usha Venkatraman.

 

Group email ID: 

CSF-2022-Buddhism@googlegroups.com

 

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4

Ways storytelling can facilitate growing, maturing, teaching and learning, creating, and/or transforming, in relation to Business.

 

Eric Miller.

K. Shanmugasundaram (Shan)

 

Group email ID: 

CSF-Business@googlegroups.com

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5

Ways storytelling can facilitate growing, maturing, teaching and learning, playing, creating, transforming, and/or healing among Children.

     Storytellings, Workshops, and other kinds of sessions for, with, and by Children.

 

Divya Vijayakumar.

_____(Divya's 23 March 2022 email _____gives some good ideas.)

Eric Miller.

Geethanjali Javed.

Ramya Iyer.

Sandhya Naren.

Shilpa Mehta.

Shital Rayathatha.

 

Group email ID: 

CSF-Children@googlegroups.com

 

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6

Ways storytelling can facilitate growing, maturing, learning, creating, transforming, and/or healing in Christianity (including the Old Testament and the New Testament).

 

Bruce Kirchoff.

Daisy Dharmaraj.

Dana Sherry.

Elizabeta Alkovic.

Florina (Ina) Bulzan.

Gilly Southwood.

J. D. Hays.

Marijana Mrvos.

Mary Kuttikadan.

Sandhya Ruban.

Susan Ida Boucaud.

Sue Hodson.

 

Group email ID: 

CSF-2022-Christianity@googlegroups.com

 

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7

Ways storytelling can facilitate growing, maturing, learning, creating, transforming, and/or healing among Survivors of Domestic Violence.

 

Haritha Kannan.

Jamunarani Ayyalu.

Regina Ress.

Saundra Gilliard.

Swati Kahaniwachak.

 

Group email ID: 

CSF-2022-DV@googlegroups.com

 

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8

Ways Storytelling can involve Protecting and Healing the Ecological Environment, the Earth. 

 

Amrita Somani.

Anuradha CR.

Bharathi Kumar.

Denise McCormack.

Dharithri Krishnamurthy.

Divya Vijayakumar.

Eileen Mack.

Faye Mogensen.

Heather Forest.

Jackson Gillman.

Jennifer Ramsay.

Kavitha Krishnakumar.

Lavanya Srinivas.

Lavanya Prasad.

Manisha Bhise.

Meenakshi Devaraj.

Meenu S.

Meera Venkatesan.

Meher Gehi.

Parvathy Eswaran.

Pooja Giri Damerla.

Prakrati Agrawal.

Priya Palanikumar.

Radha Balaraman.

Renu Narayan.

Rohini Chintha.

Sandhya Naren.

Shan Shanmugsundaram.

Sharath Nambiar.

Srabanti Basu.

Sree Karuna.

Sreelekha Ramachandran.

Sridevi Srinivasan.

Usha Venkatraman.

Vasugi Ram Manohar.

 

Group email ID:  

CSF-2022-Earth@googlegroups.com

 

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9

Ways storytelling can facilitate growing, maturing, learning, creating, transforming, and/or healing through Expressive Arts Therapy.

 

Magdalene Jeyrarathnam.

 

Group email ID: 

CSF-2022-Expressive@googlegroups.com

 

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10

Ways storytelling can facilitate growing, maturing, learning, creating, transforming, and/or healing through Great Mother culture, and the "Female/Feminine Principle".

 

Carol Ribner.

Denise McCormack.

Dnyaneshwar Digole.

Eric Miller.

J. D. Hays.

Kalyan E.

Laura Simms.

Lavanya Prasad.

Mary Chown.

Neeley Current.

Saundra Gilliard.

Shreya Biswas.

Susan Boucaud.

 

Group email ID: 

CSF-2022-Great-Mother@googlegroups.com

 

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11

Ways storytelling can facilitate growing, maturing, learning, creating, transforming, and/or healing in Hinduism.

 

Aditi Mangal.

Ambuja N.

Anamika Bhati.

Aparna Athreya.

Barnali Roy. 

Bharathi Kumar.

Debjani Bhaduri.

Gayatri Kashyap.

Lalitha Thilak.

Lavanya Prasad.

Manisha Bhise.

Meenakshi Devaraj.

Mousumi Mukherjee.

Radha Balaraman.

Ramya Srinidhi.

Sandhya Naren.

Sarita Nair.

Sharada Ryali.

Shital Ravi (working with Bharata Natyam).

Sindhu Shanker.

Sonia Bareja.

Usha Venkatraman.

Vidhi Kataria.  (Working with a stone relief carving of the "Bridge to Sri Lanka" at Prambanan temple.)

 

Group email ID: 

CSF-2022-Hinduism@googlegroups.com

 

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12

Ways storytelling can facilitate growing, maturing, learning, creating, transforming, and/or healing in specific Indigenous and Traditional Cultures.

 

H. Banumathy.

Cristopher Anderson.

Eric Miller.

Kavitha Krishnakumar.

Meenu S.

Sharath Nambiar.

Valentina Ortiz Pandolfi.

 

Group email ID: 

CSF-2022-Indigenous@googlegroups.com

 

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13

Ways storytelling can facilitate growing, maturing, learning, creating, transforming, and/or healing in Islam.

 

Deenaz Jahagirdar.

K. Mashuda Muthi.

 

Group email ID: 

CSF-2022-Islam@googlegroups.com

 

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14

Ways storytelling can facilitate growing, maturing, learning, creating, transforming, and/or healing in Judaism.

 

Barry Stewart Mann.

Doug Lipman.

Howard Lieberman.

Jim Brulé.

Karen Golden.

Noa Baum.

Rinah Sheleff.

Selina Eisenberg.

Yoel Perez.

 

Group email ID: 

CSF-2022-Judaism@googlegroups.com

 

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15

Ways storytelling can facilitate growing, maturing, learning, creating, transforming, and/or healing through Kintsugi, Combined with Narrative Therapy Practices.

 

"Mending the Broken: Ways Kintsugi combined with Narrative Therapy Practices can assist Recovery and Healing".

 

Combining

1) Principles of the ancient Japanese art of Kintsugi in which broken pottery is mended with lacquer and gold, highlighting rather than hiding the cracks, with

2) Narrative Therapy practices such as externalising, re-authoring, and migration of identity. 

 

Enabling individuals to reclaim wholeness while honoring that which is broken.

 

Eric Greenleaf.

Gilly Southwood.

Kristin Pedemonti.

Lakshmi V.

Marijana Mrvos.

Nandini Murali.

Ramya Iyer.

 

Group email ID: 

CSF-2022-Kintsugi@googlegroups.com

 

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16

Ways storytelling can facilitate growing, maturing, learning, creating, transforming, and/or healing through Laughter and Comedy.

 

Ambuja N.

Anagha Prasad.

Anuradha CR.

Anuradha Batra.

H. Banumathy.

Barnali Roy.

Debjani Bhaduri.

Divya Vijayakumar.

Haritha Kannan.

Lavanya Prasad.

Nagarajan S.

Neeley Current.

Niyati Mehta.

Parvathy Eswaran.

Sandhya Naren.

Sharath Nambiar.

 

Group email ID: 

CSF-2022-Laughter@googlegroups.com

 

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17

Ways storytelling can facilitate growing, maturing, learning, creating, transforming, and/or healing among People who have Faced Miscarriage or Stillbirth, and for those who Love and/or are Caregivers for these People.

 

Allison Cox.

Florina (Ina) Bulzan.

Meenakshi Devaraj.

Mary Kuttikadan.

 

Group email ID: 

CSF-2022-M@googlegroups.com

 

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18

Ways storytelling can facilitate growing, maturing, learning, creating, transforming, and/or healing through Mindfulness.

 

Storytelling as a tool for transformation through Mindfulness.

 

Anuradha CR.

Devina Rijhwani.

Jyoti Pande.

Lakshmi V.

K. Mashuda Muthi.

Meher Gehi.

Nandini Nagpal.

Niyati Mehta.

Radha Balaraman.

Ramya Arivazhagan.

Ramya Iyer.

Sandhya Naren.

Shital Ravi.

Shyama Sridharan.

Simran Nagwani.

Sindhu Shanker.

Sonia Bareja.

Sree Karuna.

 

Group email ID: 

CSF-2022-Mindfulness@googlegroups.com

 

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19

Ways storytelling can facilitate growing, maturing, learning, creating, transforming, and/or healing among Parents and Children.

 

Anagha Prasad.

Anuradha Batra.

H. Banumathy.

Eric Miller.

Dharithri Krishnamurthy.

Geethanjali Javed.

Haritha Kannan.

Kameswari P.

Meher Gehi.

Neeley Current.

Parvathy Eswaran.

Ramya Arivazhagan.

Ramya Iyer.

Renu Narayan.

Salome D.

Sharath Nambiar.

Shilpa Mehta.

Sree Karuna.

 

Group email ID: 

CSF-2022-Parents-and-Children@googlegroups.com

 

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20

Ways storytelling can facilitate growing, maturing, learning, creating, transforming, and/or healing through Psychodrama.

 

Magdalene Jeyrarathnam.

Srividya Veeraraghavan.

 

Group email ID: 

CSF-2022-Psychodrama@googlegroups.com

 

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21

Ways storytelling can facilitate growing, maturing, learning, creating, transforming, and/or healing through Rationalism / Atheism / Ethical Humanism / Secularism.

 

Barry Stewart Mann.

Baya Salmon-Hawk.

Eric Miller.

Francine Davies.

Fred Mindlin (working with String stories).

Gail Herman.

Judy England-McCarthy.

Kalyan Babu.

Meera Venkatesan.

Murali Dhar.

Shan (regarding J. Krishnamurthy).

Shelly Verma.

Zarin Maraikayar.

 

Group email ID: 

CSF-2022-Rationalism@googlegroups.com

 

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22

Ways storytelling can facilitate growing, maturing, learning, creating, transforming, and/or healing through Reconnecting with Oneself.

 

Denise McCormack.

Devina Rijhwani.

Eric Miller.

Gail Herman.

Howard Lieberman.

K. Mashuda Muthi.

Meher Gehi.

Nilgün Yalay.

Radha Balaraman.

Ramya Arivazhagan.

Ramya Iyer.

Sandhya Naren.

Sanjukta Bhowmik.

Shweta Yadav.

Simran Nagwani.

Sonia Bareja.

Sree Karuna.

Sridevi Srinivasan.

 

Group email ID: 

CSF-2022-Reconnecting@googlegroups.com

 

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23

Using Storytelling and Other Arts to Revive, Celebrate, and Teach about Traditional Cultures: Healing Traditional Communities, and Healing the Larger Society.

 

H. Banumathy.

Cristopher Anderson.

Eric Miller.

Kavitha Krishnakumar.

Meenu S.

Sharath Nambiar.

Valentina Ortiz Pandolfi.

 

Group email ID: 

CSF-2022-Reviving@googlegroups.com

 

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24

Ways storytelling can facilitate growing, maturing, learning, creating, transforming, and/or healing in Shamanic Practice.

 

Cristopher Anderson.

Eric Miller.

Mary Louise Chown.

Timothy Cope.

 

Group email ID: 

CSF-2022-Shamanism@googlegroups.com

 

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25

Ways storytelling can facilitate growing, maturing, learning, creating, transforming, and/or healing in Storytelling Therapy.

 

Eric Miller.

 

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26

Ways storytelling can facilitate growing, maturing, learning, creating, transforming, and/or healing in Sufism.

 

Hend Qattaa.

Kalyan Babu.

Lakshmi V.

Prakrati Agrawal.

Rebecca Lemaire.

 

Group email ID: 

CSF-2022-Sufism@googlegroups.com

 

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27

Ways storytelling can facilitate growing, maturing, learning, creating, transforming, and/or healing in Transpersonal (Spiritual) Psychology.

 

Denise McCormack.

Digavalli Nageswara Rao.

Meenakshi Sharma.

Nasreen Rustomfram.

Periya Nayaki.

Seema Wahi Mukherjee.

Srividya Veeraraghavan.

Susy Irwin.

 

Group email ID: 

CSF-2022-Transpersonal@googlegroups.com

 

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28

Ways storytelling can facilitate growing, maturing, learning, creating, transforming, and/or healing among Individuals and Groups who have Experienced Loss, Grief, and Trauma.

 

Afifi Durr.

Anagha Prasad.

Howard Lieberman.

Jennifer Ramsay.

J. D. Hays.

Jim Brulé.

Lalitha Thilak.

Lavanya Prasad.

Linda Schuyler Ford.

Louise Glegg.

Nandini Murali.

Priyanka Sagar.

Rebecca Lemaire.

Saundra Gilliard.

Seema Wahi Mukherjee.

Shyama Sridharan.

Sindhu Shanker.

Smita Rajan.

Swati Kahaniwachak.

 

Group email ID: 

CSF-2022-Trauma@googlegroups.com

 

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29

Ways storytelling can facilitate growing, maturing, learning, creating, transforming, and/or healing through the "Tree of Life" activity, which was first developed as a feature of Narrative Therapy.

 

Faye Mogensen.

Jyoti Pande.

Lani Peterson.

Marijana Mrvos.

Sharath Nambiar.

 

Group email ID: 

CSF-2022-Tree@googlegroups.com

 

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30

How Ways of Storytelling can facilitate growing, maturing, learning, creating, transforming, and/or healing.

 

Eric Miller.

Lavanya Prasad.

 

Group email ID: 

CSF-Ways-of-Storytelling@googlegroups.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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