The Big Secret of Storytelling!
This workshop will give you tools, tips and strategies from one of the top contemporary storytellers working today to help you become more fluent and confident in both creating and telling stories.
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Dates: Friday 30 June Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 July 2023
Alternative dates: Friday 10, Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 November 2023
Times : 1 pm – 5 pm UK time (BST). Please log on from 12.45 to check your equipment works and allow up to 30 minutes after the end of the workshop in case we run over a little bit.
Location: Online
Trainer: Michael Harvey Scroll down to see more about the trainer
Who is this workshop designed for: The general public. Everyone. Including therapists, counsellors and healers of all kinds.
The Big Secret of Storytelling!
Storytelling is different from other art forms because just about every human has access to innate storytelling skills just by dint of being human. It would be as if we were able to pick up an oboe for the first time and play a bit of Bach or John Coltrane.
This is only a secret because we have moved so far and so quickly from how our ancestors did things. Yes, people who were better at weaving, hunting or storytelling would give guidance to members of their group but nobody ever got ‘taught’. People learned by participation.
In many ways this is the challenge of storytelling. How do we become adept and compelling without losing those precious, innate skill? And how do we learn and deploy the taught skills that we need without becoming arch or fake? More about that another time.
Take Part…
Coming back from Covid was a revelation to me. There was a real hunger amongst my friends to start getting back together. Actually, I’ve seen that wane over the last few months and I’m not sure what to make of it. Has anyone else had a similar experience? I know from talking to friends that smaller events and training are having a harder time recruiting people than before. Anyone got a take on that?
So this is where slowing down, paying attention and participating came together for me in a simple, joyful and resonant way. We had done a UK and international tour of a storytelling show based on the Welsh oral epic Culhwch and Olwen from the Mabinogion and were wondering what to do next.
Once more we teamed up with the storytelling production company Adverse Camber to create another storytelling performance based on the Mabinogion. This time we knew we wanted to be deeply rooted in the landscape of the story and invited the local Welsh artist, Maria Hayes, to help us to slow down, pay attention and participate.
Michael Harvey has been a professional storyteller for over twenty-five years. He has worked internationally, teaching and performing on every continent (except Antarctica!). Michael helps people reconnect with with the depth and creativity of myth and other traditional narratives in order to create new stories and tell them convincingly and authentically. We’ll do this by getting into the specifics of how traditional narrative form and symbols actually work. He is a top international, award-winning storyteller and facilitator. He has taught and directed leading and emerging contemporary storytellers and has worked extensively in the education sector facilitating the creativity of both students and staff. Since lockdown he has spearheaded storytelling coaching and training online with students from Bridgend to Brazil. To his surprise, he has found that the cohort experience online is even stronger than in conventional courses and that the continuation is more sustained once the teaching sessions are over. He has performed at leading festivals world wide, including Beyond the Border and the National USA Storyelling Festival. He won a Major Creative Wales Award in 2011 that allowed him to deepen his storytelling expertise including the 3rd Labo at La Maison du Conte near Paris over an 18 month period.
As well as performing traditional stories to audiences large, small and online Michael has developed methods to create resonant and meaningful stories with groups in schools, businesses, organisations including the NHS, and members of the general public.
APPROVED FOR CPD : This course has been approved by NCIP- National Council Of Integrative Psychotherapists. The course will give you a CPD certificate for 12 hours
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