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Material relating to the Storytelling Therapy module (Tues 10th to Fri 13th Dec 2019) in the 9th annual edition of the "Diploma in Expressive Arts Therapy" course, which is presented by the East West Center for Counselling and Training, and the Psychology Dept of Women's Christian College. _________________________ From: Dr Eric Miller (PhD in Folklore, MSc in
Psychology) 98403 94282 eric@storytellinginstitute.org
http://storytellingandvideoconferencing.com Director, World
Storytelling Institute, http://storytellinginstitute.org Assistant Director, East West Center for
Counselling and Training, https://centerforcounselling.org _______________________ Instructions regarding the
format of the Healing Story part
of the Storytelling Therapy module
assignment are here. *** To compose a Healing /
Inspirational / Transformational story -- Identify a transformation
one might be looking forward to, and represent this transformation in
metaphorical terms. What occurs before, during,
and after the transformation? *** As part of the
metaphor-making process, one may change the characters to animals, royalty,
etc. One may change the setting, and
so on. *** To read about possible
benefits of using metaphors, please see -- Metaphor Therapy, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphor_therapy and "The Mystery and
Magic of Metaphor," by Susan Perrow, http://storytellinginstitute.org/239.pdf *** To read more about
Storytelling Therapy, please see -- "Story and
Storytelling in Storytelling Therapy and Expressive
Arts Therapy," by Eric Miller, http://storytellinginstitute.org/368.pdf _______________________ Additional Writings -- 1 Handout, Tues 10 Dec 2019, http://storytellinginstitute.org/10Dec2019.pdf 2 Handout, Wed 11 Dec 2019. (8 Steps of Storytelling
Therapy, and Metaphors.) http://storytellinginstitute.org/11Dec2019.pdf 3 10 Defence mechanisms, http://storytellinginstitute.org/DM.pdf 4 "Bringing
Characters to Mind" (for composing Healing / Inspirational /
Transformative stories), http://storytellinginstitute.org/24Nov2019.pdf 5 "Symbols
in Dreams and Myths: A Response to Two Books by Stephen Larsen: The Shaman's Doorway (1976) and The Mythic Imagination (1990)" http://storytellinginstitute.org/24.html (17 pages) --- Selected
quotes from the above are at, http://storytellinginstitute.org/24.pdf (4 pages) 6 "Notes
regarding a method of Coaching and Counselling, using aspects of Storytelling
Therapy", http://storytellinginstitute.org/7a.html --- Some questions
for clients (brief version), http://storytellinginstitute.org/7a.pdf 7 "There's
a New Therapist in Town: Storytelling Therapy", Indian Express, City Express section (page 5), 11 Sept 2019, https://tinyurl.com/11-9-2019-article 7a Two healing
stories (an excerpt from the above-mentioned article), http://storytellinginstitute.org/432.html 8 Links to
numerous writings (by myself and others) regarding Storytelling Therapy,
including Fairytale Therapy (a topic we have not yet touched upon), http://storytellinginstitute.org/215.html 9 Handout (20
pages) for the WSI's 8-session Storytelling Workshop (Metaphors are
discussed on pages 8-10), http://storytellinginstitute.org/97.pdf 10 For general
interest -- "Storytelling
Workshop for Teachers." http://storytellinginstitute.org/16Nov2019.pdf _______________ Text, Audio, and Video -- 11 Online
Resources relating to Storytelling, http://storytellinginstitute.org/87.html _______________ Video -- 12 Magdalene's TED Talk (Aug
2019), 13 Children Telling Stories, 14 USA Storytelling Festival (Laura Simms, at 5:53), <end>
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