For the last five years I have organized storytelling courses that focus on the very aspect that we all seem to long for: experiencing genuine connection with ourselves and our listeners through telling our own life stories. The courses focus on telling the story, they do not look at technique, plot or words, they want to create an experience that uses serendipity as its inspiration. Serendipity uses free mindroaming, association and creative thinking as its connecting powers to create stories on the spot. In other words, we learn to create stories as we tell them. Topics help us to focus on the genuine article. For example, in the first session the participants associate freely on \"my name\", which is the first topic of seven storytelling sessions. Using mindmaps we associate freely on my name. Try this one yourself. What springs to mind? It helps to visualize the different associations and in turn these associations may connect to new ones.
This process of free association unlocks a creative flow that may look like a room of mirrors, each one reflecting its own story potential. The next step is to put this potential story to use, to make it alive by telling it. It may sound simple and basically it is that easy........, were it not for those listeners paying attention to what you are going to tell. It is that daunting aspect that most potential storytellers shrink back from: F.E.A.R (False Evidence Accepted as Real). So this is actually where the storytelling courses prove their effective use: the group activity, storytelling, is common ground and as such serves each scared potential storyteller to increasingly shed his defensive walls and share their story with the listeners. This latter experience is rewarding and mindshiftingly important in that we learn to express ourselves with our guard down.This learning experience causes us to literally communicate by sharing our stories and communicate effectively because we use our speaking power from within.
So come and join in or organize your own storytelling circle, I\'ll be happy to contribute.
Auteur: Jan Peijen
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