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Chennai Storytelling Festival 2019, at Loyola College Sat 9 Feb 2019, for Adults -- 1:30pm-4pm. "Storytelling
for Coaching and Counselling". Below is
a 7-step process for using Storytelling
for Coaching and Counselling. This 7-step
process is based on, inspired by, and an elaboration of, Carl Jung's 3-step
therapeutic process. In
addition to Psychological Counselling, this 7-step process could be used Life
Coaching context (in relation to oneself and/or others): Develop Creativity. Self-exploration. Self-improvement. Help one
to Fulfill one's potential. Actualise oneself. Find one's self. Find one's voice, Discover
one's mission in life. In this
Workshop, we would go over these steps and begin to apply them to each of us
in introductory ways. Participants
might at times be invited to write, draw, talk with a partner, meet in small
groups, act-out situations (performing skits, possibly even with rhythmic and
melodic speech and stylised movements), and use other modes of expression. The
7-step process 1) Tell
one's Life Story (a ten-minute version) to a partner. 2)
Identify in one's Life Story: A) Major
Chapters, Important Incidents, and Turning Points. B)
Challenges, Frustrations, Disappointments, Joys, etc. One could ask oneself such questions as: "Am I fully happy?
If not, what is keeping me from being fully happy? What could I do to become happier?" C)
Successful coping methods one has used. D)
Outstanding and recurring motifs (also known as story elements, and
archetypes) in one's Life Story -- these could be objects, places,
characters, types of relationships, etc. D) Themes
(ideas, issues, lessons learned, etc). 3) Gather
4 or 5 other stories that are similar to aspects of one's Life Story. These other stories could be stories of any
type (they could be stories of Folktales, episodes of Epics, movies,
historical events, experiences of family or friends, etc). Working with Epics, Fairytales, and other traditional
stories could help one to recognise the power of archetypal elements outside
and inside oneself, and then put one’s personal experiences into a larger
perspective. Understanding the
functioning of archetypal characters and situations within oneself is a way
of synchronising the beating of one’s own heart with the rhythm of the
cosmos. June Singer.
Boundaries of the Soul: The Practice of Jung's Psychology. Garden City,
NY, Doubleday. 1972. pp. 127-8. 4) Create
modified versions of any of the above-mentioned stories (especially of
episodes of one's Life Story). For
examples, one could: A)
Exaggerate any aspect of a story. B) Change
the way a scene ends (change the way a character behaves). C) Add or
subtract a character or scene. D) Take a
story one has told in 1st person (a personal-experience story) ("I did
..."), and tell it in 3rd person ("She/he did ..."). This takes an internal experience and
externalises it, projecting the experience onto an external character. E) Take a
story one has told in 3rd person ("She/he did ..."), and tell it in
1st person (as if it were a personal-experience story) ("I did
..."). This takes an external
experience and internalises it. Reasons one might do these activities include: A) Just for fun. B) To give one a sense of satisfaction. C) To see things and situations from different
perspectives. D) To explore ways characters could, should, or might have
behaved. 5) Speak to and as characters in the above-mentioned stories. Possibilities include: A) One
could speak with a younger or older version of oneself. B) One
could speak with a younger or older version of a story character. C) A
story character could speak with a younger or older version of him/herself. 6) See if
any metaphors representing aspects of the above-mentioned stories might come
to mind. 7) With asssiatnce from a partner or facilitator, use such
metaphors (and any other elements of, or related to, any of the above-mentioned
stories), to compose a story that is inspiring, guiding, encouraging,
empowering, integrating, and/or healing in relation to oneself.
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