Training Course: Creativity Tools: Training Course on Storytelling

Location: Asha Centre, United Kingdom

Dates: 19-27 July 2017

Number of participants: 33

Participating countries: Croatia, Estonia, Greece, Italy, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, United Kingdom

Organizer: Asha Centre

Apply here: fill this application form and email to both: (a) the partner organisation based in your country of residence and (b) projects@ashacentre.org

Deadline to apply: 2 June 2017

Inquiries about this training course: projects@ashacentre.org

Costs: This project is financed by the Erasmus+: Youth in Action Programme. Accommodation, food and programme is free. ASHA reimburses travel expenses at 80% of the overall cost (but no higher than the Erasmus+ travel distance band ceilings).

Creativity Tools: Training Course on Storytelling

An Introduction to the training…
“If you don’t know the trees you may be lost in the forest, but if you don’t know the stories you may be lost in life”. -Siberian Elder
Story is deeply embedded in all our cultures, present from the very beginning, when through its power people gathered in tribal groups and then later formed nations around national myths and heroes. Even today, story plays an important, integrative role and shapes our lives and identities in manifold ways.

“Evidence strongly suggests that humans in all cultures come to cast their own identity in some sort of narrative form. We are inveterate storytellers.”(Owen Flanagan).

In this course we will explore the stories which have shaped our lives, both culturally and individually. We will share our ‘national myths’ and come together to explore and decode the legend of Parsifal, often described as an archetypal story of European values and identity.
Participants will also be encouraged to create and tell their own stories, using a mixture of methods of storytelling, voice and theatre. Throughout, we will practice the art of storytelling and appreciate how to use it as an effective tool in intercultural dialogue.
Participant Profile