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How to tell stories that heal – A masterclass in storytelling

On this popular and empowering day you will explore stories that have a powerful beneficial effect on the mind/body system and teaches you how to source and tell such therapeutic tales yourself.


Stories can be incredibly powerful therapeutic tools. They help bypass rigid views about life, enhancing the listener's flexibility of thought. And by suspending ordinary constraints, they help people reclaim optimism whilst fueling their imaginations with the energy necessary to attain goals. In the physically ill, they can also stimulate the immune system and speed recovery.

On this popular and empowering day master storyteller, Pat Williams, explores stories that have a powerful beneficial effect on the mind/body system and teaches you how to source and tell such therapeutic tales yourself.

All successful psychotherapy and counselling involves storytelling and the appropriate use of metaphor, tapping into the natural way our brains work. We cannot know what goes on in another person’s mind but, if you perceive the ‘pattern’ of a story and understand that it could be useful to them at a specific point in their life, that is reason enough to tell it. Their unconscious, creative imagination will seek and find the ‘meaning’ relevant to their situation. No explanation, no direct statement of a story’s meaning can substitute for the way it acts on the hearer’s mind.

http://www.humangivenscollege.com/courses/stories-that-heal.html


Speaker(s):

Pat Williams | talks | www
Denise Winn | talks | www

 

Date and Time:

3 October 2013 at 9:30 am

Duration:

Full Day

 

Venue:

Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre
1046 Bristol Road
Birmingham
B29 6LJ
0121 472 5171

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Organised by:

Human Givens College
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Tickets:

£192

Available from:

Human Givens College
www.humangivenscollege.com
01323 811690

Additional Information:

http://www.humangivenscollege.com/courses/stories-that-heal.html

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