Stories that Reconnect

This workshop is not about learning basic storytelling, though you can attend even if you are a beginner. Learn the fundamentals of storytelling through my Beginners Storytelling Course. 

 

There are two components of this course: recorded lectures which include me telling a story + online learning circles. You can sign up for one or both.

 

Stories that Reconnect- Story and Lecture Recordings 

Stories told soulfully can reconnect us to wonder, reverence, humility and wisdom. They offer a larger perspective on our lives, values and work. They can help us find the courage to keep working for that more beautiful world, even when we feel defeated and discouraged. Stories can help us endure hardship and loss. Stories can help us rediscover the wisdom of forgotten ancestors, rekindle hope, joy, solidarity and connectedness. Storytelling can also be used to build and reweave community.

Jenni will help you discover ways to use the ancient and powerful art of storytelling to enrich whatever you are doing, large or small, to make the world a more beautiful place.

~hear ancestral and original stories for our times

~learn why storytelling is a powerful and necessary tool for healing and catalysing change and strengthening community

~learn ways to frame stories, connect a principle to a folktale or be inspired to write your own tale

 

Stories that Reconnect – Story Circle

~connect with other participants in a small group in a heartfelt way, via story in large group discussions and in pairs

~work on a short story of your own

WHO: You may be an educator, therapist, healer, activist, change-maker, parent, community worker, creative or writer wanting to boost your ability to build community, educate, soothe distress, encourage resilience and/or catalyse change. Beginners are most welcome.

Join us, as we sink deeply and luxuriously into the realm of ancient and contemporary oral stories.

 

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IMAGE BELOW: Jenni facilitating a Storytelling Workshop at Woodford Folk Festival, Dec 2019 (pre-Covid19!)

I thoroughly enjoyed the whole experience. This workshop was not what I was expecting (although I don’t know what I was expecting) but it feels like I have walked into a new world. Since the beginning I have had stories flowing out of me. I have written three stories to accompany my artwork and I have another two that I am working on so you have helped trigger something in my brain that I am excited about, which is a beautiful feeling considering what is happening in the world around us.  It is difficult for me express the profound experience I have had for the last few weeks. I would also like to say that I think you are an excellent moderator/facilitator!
Karen Benjamin

Eco Artist

I loved you telling a story. The breakout rooms were really great – an opportunity to share one on one – I felt that I was being listened to and had thoughtful feedback. It was great to share my story and get some feedback. I am inspired. It was great to go back over the recordings. It was great to meet everyone on the sessions and share openly. I enjoyed the emails you sent after the sessions, it brought it together nicely. The links were always useful and informative. 
Linda Cooper

Co-ordinator , Brahma Kumaris, Gold Coast

I found the whole course a joy to participate in! This course was so valuable to me in terms of hearing participants of different ages and experience tell a variety of stories, and then to have everyone’s written feedback in the chat box to read and learn from later was a bonus. Jenni is a consummate facilitator, giving everyone their voice and chasing technological gremlins away.
Pam Blamey

Storyteller and Secretary, Frog on a Rock and Queensland Jung Society

Since the workshop my understanding about using story to spark people’s interest, and even shift their perspective has strengthened and grown. Jenni’s encouraging way of teaching allowed us to transform our own stories. If we are to create the change needed to protect our natural world, connecting with one another through story is the only way we will do it.

Maddy Braddon

Coordinator, Northern Rivers Intrepid Landcare

Just wanted to say thanks so much for the workshop on Saturday. I really enjoyed it. You are such a good and natural facilitator who knows your content so well because you live it. Thanks for creating such a lovely atmosphere and sparking many interesting insights and learnings for me. 

Damien

Murwillumbah

In August 2017, I participated in a storytelling workshop facilitated by Jenni Cargill-Strong. The event was both insightful and inspiring and gave me the confidence to experiment with new ways to share information and encourage participation in Landcare. In October 2017 I was selected as a speaker at the NSW Landcare Conference in Albury. I mustered the courage to apply my newfound storytelling skills and methodology through my delivery. The presentation was extremely successful with multiple people approaching me afterward commenting on the presentation style as engaging and refreshing. Thanks to Jenni I have now found my style and my confidence to present to large audiences and trust that my stories will embed in peoples memory.

Emma Stone

Landcare Coordinator , Border Ranges Richmond Valley Landcare Network

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