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 (at 3pm on Sat 20th Feb).
I) Telegu Storytelling Session.
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This is the 9th annual
edition of the Chennai
Storytelling Festival,
and the 1st to be held
entirely via Zoom
videoconference.
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Highlights on Sat 27th
and Sun 28th Feb 2021
(a 27-hour set) are
listed here.
The full schedule of Sat
27th and Sun 28th
Feb 2021 (with Workshop
Descriptions, etc)
is here.
For time-conversions, please see
https://www.thetimezoneconverter.com
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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).
Kushboo
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).
2
"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).
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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).
12
"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).
13
"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.
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The
Earth Stories Collection: How to Make
Another
World Possible with Myths, Legends
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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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