Place: Marjatta, Tappernøje, Denmark
Time: July 26th - August 1st 2009
The workshops see pictures
1. Alexander MacKenzie: Parcifal and Personal Leadership in Business
2. Bente Klerke, Denmark: Creating healing Stories
3. Inger Lise Oelrich, Sweden: Healing words: Revitalizing the earth through story
4. Lewis Mehl-Madrona, USA. Community Healing
5. Nancy Mellon, USA: The Eloquence of the the Body
6. Roi Gal-Or, Israel/England: The Doors of Perception
Karsten Mathiasen, Denmark: Storytelling about Forgiveness, every day
Klezmerduo, music, dancing - mornings
Symposium leader: Marianne Christensen
Today we have an environmental crisis that comes out of our lost connection with the living earth. The symptoms are manifold: depression, anxiety, pollution, truancy, conflict, just to name a few. Fixing it from the outside is not enough. As human beings, however, we have a core relationship to the earth as our birthright. This means we carry within us true knowledge of how to help. But how to access it?
Every human being can develop their inner connection to the earth as a living being, thereby strengthening the individual´s health and the vitality of the planet. A potent way of doing this is through storytelling and the spoken word with the faculties this entails. During this workshop we will explore the natural surroundings of Marjatta, working with creative imagination, spontaneous storytelling and old folktales. Listening to the voice of the earth can help us become co-creators of a future full of potential and promise.
4. Community healing
The workshop will consider how group participation in story shapes community identity, using examples from the
Coastal Salish of British Columbia in their revival of their spirit possession winter ceremonial complex and the stories supporting that and in the use of stories to support communities who have reduced diabetes or become relatively free from the harmful effects of alcohol and drug abuse.
We will explore the indigenous world view in which our personal identities are shaped from the collective and
community stories which tell us how to see the world and how to act to perform the roles into which we have been born, have been assigned, or have taken on. We will see the greater power of story when it is enacted symbolically
(through sacred objects) in community with coherent and connected participants for the purpose of everyone's healing.
Workshop leader: Lewis Mehl-Madrona, MD, PhD, MPhil, USA/Canada
5. The eloquence of the Body
With a look at recent scientific evidence, learn a practical approach to self-transformation through the wise old art of storytelling.
Discover how to speak to and from heart, liver, lungs and all your bodily parts. Learn how storytelling can be a shamanistic art and science that awakens specific healing energy dynamics.
Nancy offers a wealth of new insight to medical practitioners, storytellers, healers and community builders, by exploring the human body as the foundation for transforming the human story.
Workshop leader: Nancy Mellon presents workshops and courses at locations throughout the
An adult educator and former teacher, she is now a psychotherapist. With a specialty in healing through the arts,
she is a pioneer in therapeutic storytelling. In her courses and workshops she awakens storytelling skills to meet a broad range of challenging situations. Nancy Mellon's most recent book gives deep insight into the physiology of body and soul.
Nancy has written several books on storytelling, recently 'The Eloquence of the Body' was published.
More information about Nancy Mellon
Read an interview with Nancy Mellon
6. The doors of Perception
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is: Infinite”. --William Blake
What is it like to be you? Can we truly see each other?
How can we approach conflict situations without closing the doors of our hearts to the other side of the story? There are some stories, which are no longer serving us in the world today. Behind the door to the invisible world of imagination are many new stories waiting to be told …will you dare opening it?
In this workshop we will use the power and wisdom of traditional and biographical stories to heal conflict, clean and open our perception to welcome into our lives change and new possibilities of insight, hope and Joy.
Workshop leader: Roi Gal-Or, Israel/Englandperforms and teaches storytelling at Emerson College and Sussex University, UK.
He gives workshops internationally on social development and is researching the relationship between traditional and personal stories in the world today. Roi is the organizer of "Healing Words" the International Storytelling and Art Festival for Peace, Whitsun 2007, "Gate to Humanity", Israel.Visit www.adam-insan.org/festival, www.schoolofstorytelling.com
See pictures from Roi's workshop in Järna '07
Workshop about forgiveness Karsten Mathiasen
Every day after lunch
Over countless years, Karsten Mathiasen has gathered and told stories about forgiveness and reconciliation, alongside working as a circus clown in his own circus. He believes that forgiveness is the greatest healer and that acts of forgiveness provide powerfully creative sources for stories that guide us towards a better future - both on the personal and global level. ”Let us find the stories that work like small sticks in the wheels of revenge and hate!” Karsten is looking forward to facilitating the daily lunchtime storytelling session on this fantastic subject.
You can find his "Think Tank for Forgiveness" on the website www.tilgivelse.dk
Symposium leader Marianne Christensen
is a teacher of adults, hypnotherapist, storyteller and experienced organizer of several workshops and seminars.
Has been teaching storytelling in Denmark and Estonia.
In her home town, Vordingborg, she has trained a group of historically interested people to be
museum guides. They take people on walking tours around the town and tell lots of stories about people and places in Vordingborg.
How to join the symposium and prices
