Biographical storytelling

It was indeed my intention to write here every week, but, alas, time goes so fast here, and I have truly overwhelmed by all the 'inside stories' that are being told.

We have told stories in nature, we have worked with the four temperaments and the last two weeks we have been workin on wondertales.
I told Jorinda and Joringel.
The teachers, Roi GAl-Or and Sue Holingsworth, had choosen a story for all of us, so we all got an individual story to tell. It has been very exciting to follow the progress from getting the story to finding out, why the story was given to me.
The wondertales hold secrets, it is said, and we have all experienced how we have dug out old stories from inside ourselves. We have wept, laughed, sorrowed, joyed, danced and been frozen.
The way we have worked with the tales has been a true treasure for us.

For a long time I have found an interest in wondering what happens with the old witch in the forest, why did she become wicked and what happens to her afterwards. For Jorinda and Joringen, a Grimm's tale, I found some help in Nancy Mellon's book; Body Eloquence, which  I strongly recommend to anybody who is interested in working with the stories of the body, the organs.

It was nice working with the story and a wonderful culmination to tell it to our great audience at last Thursday evening in the storytelling hut here at Emerson College.

Now we are working with biographical stories for at couple of weeks. Now is the time to combine all the crafts and tools we have learned. Lot of work, but very funny and exciting.
Soon we will be preparing for our last performances on the 13th and 14th of December.

I have already decided to com back to international school of storyeling in the spring.

If you like working with yourself through stories... COME!
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