Storytelling for Change

We humans are born storytellers.
And the stories we tell create the meaning
we make of our lives.
Want to create something different?
Change the story...?

Make this a deep, inspiring, catalytic weekend - join us to cultivate your natural storytelling skills and explore how the power of
story and metaphor can be integrated into inspiring change. No previous story-telling experience needed.

This programmes asks “What are the stories, personal and universal, ancient and modern, that compel us to change? Which stories are so powerful that they draw us to hope, to care and to engage?” If you want to influence change - whatever your experience or walk of life - this is the course for you!

Elizabeth Gorla, one of Embercombe's senior facilitators, with a wealth of storytelling experience and technique at her fingertips, will lead the course.

~ Cultivate your natural storytelling skills

~ Explore the power of story and metaphor and how you might integrate story into inspiring change

We will work with simple storytelling techniques that allow you to get the story into your body, remember it, map it in your mind and, most importantly, make emotional connections within the story that will move your audience

Around the fire, our hearts will be touched and, in small groups, we will explore story and change in three arenas: the mythic, the contemporary and the personal. What are the myths underlying all world cultures that speak to us? What are the modern myths of our culture and what can we learn from them as we practice “being the change”? What stories from your own life can inspire us to committed action for a truly sustainable world?

For the weekend of the course we will live in one of Embercombe's two yurt villages, warmed by wood-burners and close to the earth. At times we will put in a little work on the land, harvest crops and cook a meal together, so as to get a real sense of place and community. Although there is a clear programme, a certain amount of spontaneity will allow us to weight some parts of the course above others.

£175
24th - 26th September

Cost includes facilitation, accommodation and all meals from Friday night to Sunday lunchtime.

Accommodation in cosy yurts, each with wood burning stoves (bring your own bedding).

We serve organic, home-cooked vegetarian meals cooked with produce from our garden and other organic ingredients.

A collection to & from Exeter St Davids is possible.

To register or for more information contact Clare@embercombe.co.uk or 01647 252 983