Tell Me a Story: a Guide to Traditional Storytelling

Awaken Your Inner Storyteller With Workshop Proven Techniques

Created by: Paul Jenkins' Course Partners
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Created by: Nicola-Jane le Breton
Storytelling and Writing Instructor at storyweavers.net.au

What Will I Learn?

• Awaken your inner storyteller
• Embrace your own storytelling style
• Overcome inner obstacles to telling stories
• Practice simple techniques for remembering story outlines
• Use imagination and gesture to flesh out the details of your story
• Weave a relationship with your story
• Connect to self, nature, and others through story
• Build your storytelling confidence with practice
• Perform your first oral, traditional tale to an audience of your choice
• Engage with the worldwide storytelling renaissance
• Bonus Lecture: Introduction to Story Medicine

Requirements

• A passion for story
• Access to traditional tales (online or in print)
• Your notebook and pen
• A little time to spend alone and in nature

Target audience

• Those who love traditional tales, including myths, fairytales, folk tales, wonder tales, fables and legends
• Those who long to be able to tell a good story by heart
• Those who doubt their ability to remember a story without notes
• Those who would love to share the wisdom of our ancestors with your children and grandchildren
• Those who think they don’t have the right personality or style to be a storyteller
• Those who are keen to join the worldwide storytelling renaissance
• Those who are intrigued by the power of stories to offer wisdom and healing without preaching or moralising
• Those who recognise each human life is a mythic journey with treasures to uncover, gifts to discover and challenges and monsters to overcome