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Nungambakkam, Chennai (PhD in Folklore, MSc in Psychology), 98403 94282, 044 4005 5027 Welcome! Upcoming
Events (Sept
2023 onward) via Zoom
Videoconference and in
Chennai _________________________ Notes: The World Storytelling Institute's (the
world's first map of professional storytellers 1)
One-on-one Training in "Storytelling Therapy." This process includes the trainee
undergoing Storytelling Therapy. That
is, one learns this method in-part by undergoing it oneself. 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. Reviews of this training are here. The process provides: 1) Training in
"Storytelling Therapy" – which can be used for Counselling, Life
Coaching, Personality Development, etc. 2) Counselling and Life
Coaching utilising 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. The Storytelling Therapy method has 8
steps: 1) Tell one's "Life story". 2) The listener may share similar
experiences. 3) Identify turning points,
outstanding elements, and themes in one's Life story. 4) Seek to bring to mind metaphors for
aspects of one's Life story. 5) Gather "Associative
stories" in relation to each of the identified themes in one's Life
story. 6) Add to and otherwise modify any of
the above-mentioned stories. 7) Speak to and as characters in one's
memory and imagination. 8) Compose a "Healing story"
(and/or an "Inspiring / Encouraging / Guiding / Integrating /
Transforming story".) As part of Step No. 7 ("Speak to
and as characters in one's memory and imagination"), the "Active Imagination"
technique that was first developed by Carl Jung would be used. Storytelling Therapy involves ways to
use stories, and the process of storytelling, to increase people's feelings
of well-being. The kinds of stories used in the
Storytelling Therapy process include Animal Fables; Fairytales; episodes of
Epics; Stories from participants' favorite Movies, Plays, and Novels;
Historical Stories; Personal-experience Stories; and Original Creative
stories. Fairytale Therapy,
one type of Storytelling Therapy,
would be a part of this training. Trainees are encouraged to work
especially with traditional stories from their own cultures. The
Storytelling Therapy process includes looking at traditional stories in one's
own culture for characters and situations that could serve as metaphors for
one's psychological tendencies. Why
should such metaphors appear only in the form of characters from ancient
Greece (Oedipus, Narcissus, Eros, the Furies, etc)? More about this approach is here. This training is given by Dr Eric
Miller. Dr Eric's 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). From 2017 to 2020, Dr Eric taught this
material in a group Course, 3 times each year. A Poster about the Course is here. Now Dr Eric gives this training one-on-one. No previous training is required. Training Fee: Rs 24,000. If possibly interested, please contact
Dr Eric. Contact info and additional info about
this training 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 1st Oct to 10th Dec 2023. A focus of this edition of the workshop
is going to be on creating 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 4th Sept
2023. The program is coming soon. Links to recordings of tellings (and
discussions) in our past sessions (July 2020 onward), are here. A
theme for tellings in this series is letting characters speak for
themselves (in monologue and dialogue). 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)
"Psychodrama and Story" Workshops. Presented by the Indian Institute of
Psychodrama in association with the World Storytelling Institute: |
