workshop write up

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'Participation Storytelling' and AGM

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'Participation Storytelling' and AGM

What an exciting and full day. It started with a most energetic and practical workshop on ‘Participation Storytelling’ led by Christine Carlton and Kiran Shah. We explored strategies for engaging and preparing an audience for participation before a story and had examples of spontaneously involving people throughout the story. Different approaches for various age groups were discussed and this was followed with examples of use of gesture, sounds, group actions, chants,repetition etc. 

We also engaged in co-created group  storytelling. Not only did this develop our spontaneous response skills, but also….

“That Reminds me of a Time When...”

“That Reminds me of a Time When...”

Saturday 16th September's workshop, “That Reminds me of a Time When...” was a fabulous day of finding, crafting and telling personal stories. The group began with a couple of fun warm up, get to know you exercises, then with some story prompts we set about writing our own personal fairytale. We then broke into threes and each one shared their tale while the other two listened from a particular perspective(Sun & Moon). We then had time to polish up our stories using our partners’ feedback with another telling of our polished story.

Collective Story Harvesting

Collective Story Harvesting

On Friday, 15th September, participants from the business world were inspired by Mary Alice Arthur's ”Collective Story Harvest” workshop. The afternoon was rich with storytelling and story listening, with each story listener- listening with a particular focus and one listener witnessing both the storyteller, the other listeners and the overall telling. Then all these “harvests” were shared back to the teller and the group in what was an enriching and empowering session.

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Nuts and Bolts and New Action Committee

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Nuts and Bolts and New Action Committee

We had a wonderful day on Saturday 22nd of July.  There were some little gems shared in our ‘Storytelling - Nuts and Bolts’ workshop which included activities to welcome and engage participants in a workshop, performance technique, using sound and gesture to precede the action or concur with the words to support and emphasise the gesture, simple story structures, what to consider when telling personal stories