Community Building Through Storytelling
Storytelling is an age old way to spread ideas to the public, and when used creatively and with an activists passion, can result in stronger, more intimate, more fun communities, organizations, and even whole societies.
This workshop will offer you a short introduction into understanding the patterns of growth that all healthy living things seem to go through, and then move on to using some homemade art cards as the starting point for creating our own stories that will leave you feeling like you are a part of a much larger, more amazing, and more amusing world of diverse life, and probably give you lots of ideas for where you might want to go next in the story of your life.
details
- when: saturday, april 18th, 2009, from 3:45 pm - 5:15 pm
- to attend: Please see the info page for more information on attending any of the workshops at the 2009 Boston Skillshare.
- facilitated by: Turtle
lesson plan
1. Quick into to the spiral of growth theory - individual and collective growth.
2. A short story about storytelling.
3. A bit about the story cards and suggestions for making your own.
4. Some real, improv, community building storytelling to inspire, educate, and amaze!
facilitator experience
As an aging activist, teacher, artist, and budding philosopher, The Wise Turtle (aka Turtle, aka Turil Cronburg) is known for her unique approach to life, and her unending capacity to tell wild stories. Recently, she's discovered that she could unite her favorite passions in life by making story/art cards and using them to teach people about here theories about healthy growth, while also getting to collaborate with others in telling even wilder stories. Her website www.thewiseturtle.com is a collection of all sorts of amusing and challenging bits of stories she's collected about the universe. She's also given Superhero training workshops to preschool kids and to a permaculture group called EAT, taught bicycle awareness to police officers, and given a Living Economy workshop at the Cambridge Women's Center.
intended audience
Everyone who has something to say or is interested in what others have to say, and wants to go about it in a way that is especially entertaining, meaningful, and positive.
other resources suggested by the facilitator
My blog has a number of entries under the storytelling tag that might you might enjoy:
http://www.blog.thewiseturtle.com/?cat=24