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How can we create, find and hold spaces for human connection and empowered change, in the face of polarisation and divisive powers? How do we keep tending the flame of vision for futures full of potential and possibility when our hearts are pressured and worried?

 

The folk tale Meat Without Salt tells of a king who asks his daughter for a meal of the finest food imaginable. She serves him a bowl of ‘tongue stew’ saying:

“Father, the tongue is capable of the finest things in the world - speaking the words of love, friendship, healing, kindness, generosity, care and creation.”

 

When the King demands a meal made of the foulest thing in the world, the princess serves the same stew: “Father, the tongue is also capable of sewing hate, separation, hurt, pain, prejudice and war.”

 

What stories are we called to give tongue to now, that can go beyond the binaries of ‘good and evil’ and help us listen to each other, and to a deeper wisdom?

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Storyteller facilitators Roi Gal-Or and Hannah Moore are inviting you to a week-long intensive for practitioners who wish to develop their skills in applied storytelling - a space for enquiry, listening, reflecting, inspiration and renewal. Together we will explore how the imagination, storytelling and listening beyond words play a part in creating the world around us. 
 

The week will include time for: 

 

• Exploring how applied storytelling can support you in creating and holding transformative, regenerative and visionary spaces.

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•  Discover how storytelling can support us to safely explore difference, deepen connection, and set in motion the futures our imagination and our stories know are possible.

 

• Practices for navigating through these challenging times of collapse, composting decaying stories, and growing in your own capacity to sit with the trouble in safe containers with others.

 

• Supervision circles in which participants will be invited to share cases related to space-holding and storytelling practice, and receive collective listening, witnessing, and reflective support for professional development, integration and insight.

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This course is for storytellers and story lovers -  those who already tell and share stories as well as those who are excited to do so. The focus will be on ways of working with applied storytelling in interpersonal contexts, rather than how to tell stories.

Bring your questions about working with story in the context of facilitation, coaching, group processes, training programmes, creative workshops, community building, education, activism, social justice, conflict resolution, and peace building. 

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​Accommodation and meals are self organised:

There is a limited number of rooms available in the student hostel on the Peredur campus. They are single rooms with shared kitchen and bathroom facilities. Each room contains a bed, wardrobe, desk, chair and washbasin. Peredur provides bedding and a towel. The cost is £35/night, for stays of longer than 7 nights the rate reduces to £28.57/night. Peredur operates on a strictly first-come first-served basis so it is advisable to book the room early. Peredur does not require a deposit, payment is due on arrival.

There is also a space in the car park for 1-2 self-contained campervans, at the rate of £10/person/night.

 To reserve a room please contact info@peredurcentre.org.uk or call  +44 (0)1342 312527

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​Alternatively please contact us for a list of friendly local accommodation.

Please note that this course is self-catering. An option for a light lunch may become available if enough participants will be interested. There is a pub serving food 5 minutes walk away from the venue and a well stocked corner shop.

The nearest train station is in East Grinstead and is just over a mile away. The town also has plenty of restaurants, supermarkets and a Travelodge. The village of Forest Row is only 4 miles away with good accommodation options, three supermarkets, whole food shops, cafes and restaurants. If you have a car, basic accommodation in Forest Row can also be booked as a visiting guest at Emerson College by calling 01342 822238.