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. *** 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." *** 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). _________________________ _________________________ _________________________ 30 Topic Groups in Chennai
Storytelling Festival 1) CSF-ADHD 2) CSF-Autism 3) CSF-Buddhism 4) CSF-Business 5) CSF-Children 8) CSF-Ecology 9) CSF-Expressive-Arts-Therapy 11) CSF-Hinduism 12) CSF-Indigenous 13) CSF-Islam 14) CSF-Judaism 15) CSF-Kintsugi 16) CSF-Laughter 17) CSF-Miscarriage 18) CSF-Mindfulness 20) CSF-Psychodrama
21) CSF-Rationalism 22) CSF-Reconnecting 23) CSF-Reviving 24) CSF-Shamanism 26) CSF-Sufism 28) CSF-Trauma 29)
CSF-Tree-of-Life _________________________ 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 _________________________ 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 _________________________ 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 _________________________ 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 _________________________ 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 _________________________ 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 _________________________ 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 _________________________ 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 _________________________ 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 _________________________ 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 _________________________ 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 _________________________ 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 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 _________________________ 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 _________________________ 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 _________________________ 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 _________________________ 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 _________________________ 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 _________________________ 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 _________________________ 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 _________________________ 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 _________________________ 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 _________________________ 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 _________________________ 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 _________________________ 25 Ways
storytelling can facilitate growing, maturing, learning, creating,
transforming, and/or healing in Storytelling Therapy. Eric
Miller. _________________________ 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 _________________________ 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 _________________________ 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 _________________________ 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 _________________________ 30 How
Ways of Storytelling can facilitate
growing, maturing, learning, creating, transforming, and/or healing. Eric
Miller. Lavanya
Prasad. Group
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