WORKSHOPS

Workshops are shaped to explore dynamic issues, and meet the needs of each community.

Inviting the Muse An introduction to storytelling technique, learning to move off-page through a series of tried and true creative exercises which facilitate experiencing the story rather then memorizing the text.

Inviting Dialogue through Storytelling An exploration into the dialogical power of storytelling and storymaking, using folktales (containers of accumulated world wisdom) and participatory processes, moving  from individual imagination to metaphorical thinking and finally to collective creativity and empathy.

Following the Thread: Personal Stories, Sacred Stories All of us tell stories about ourselves; following the threads of story in our own biography, discovering themes and imagery, and crafting memorable stories for significant events.

Mythos: Demeter, Persephone & Hecate Listening to any myth creates a portal for our own life stories to surface. Re-experiencing the elements of this story - great love, rage and forgiveness – in artistic ways (dancing, writing, drawing, retelling and story rendering) can be transformational.

Cric?-Crac! Once, when my grandmother fell off the sleigh on the way to her wedding…. A classroom workshop enlivening the social studies curriculum with the researching, shaping and telling of family stories, and a great introduction to creating classroom storytelling circles.

Storytelling in Waldorf and Montessori Pedagogy Maria Montessori and Rudolf Steiner both posited storytelling as the key to an enlivened pedagogy to best prepare each child to meet the world. This workshop offers an overview of storytelling in Waldorf and Montessori classrooms, and surveys the practice of storytelling in other educational cultural contexts.

Call Abegael to discuss a storytelling event to suit an occasion.