Programs and Workshops



Storytelling as a Healing Art offers experiential training in storymaking and storytelling as a creative and transformative process. It is designed for caring professionals, as well as parents, teachers, professional storytellers and others who wish to develop new understanding, skill, confidence and refinement in storytelling as a healing art.

The training provides an integrated journey through individual projects and group participation. Participants study the influence of story on the health and development of individuals and groups. Types and qualities of imagination and narrative are explored, in relationship with a broad variety of challenges to physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health across the life span. The participants are given the opportunity to learn many ways to integrate speech, movement, music, color, writing and dramatic arts with storytelling and storymaking in their personal and professional lives.

We also offer workshops and consultations in therapeutic storytelling and the art of storytelling.

To listen on-line to Nancy speaking about storytelling on NHPR, click here.


USA Programs

The Art of Therapeutic Storytelling, 2002-2003.
How the Body Speaks
* Nine Saturdays, 9:30-5:30, in Concord, Massachusetts
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September 21    
October 19
November 23 		December 14    
January 25
February 7 		April 12
May 24
June 21
* to register call 603-654-2982.

Storytelling with Children
* January 3, 2003.
* Saratoga, CA
* Contact Anna Rainville.

Trees: The Power of Transformative Storytelling
* Saturday, January 4, 2003.
* Monterey, CA
* Contact Nancy Mellon.

Other workshops are being arranged in the San Francisco area in early January. For more information, contact Nancy Mellon

Storytelling as a Healing Art
* January 18, 2003.
* Freeport, Maine
* Contact Merriconeag Waldorf School at 207-865-3900.

Storytelling as a Healing Art
* February 1, 2003.
* Lexington, MA
* Contact Lexington Waldorf School at 781-863-1062.

Storytelling as a Healing Art
* April 28 - May 2, 2003.
* Toronto, Ontario
* Contact Rudolf Steiner Centre, 905-764-7570.

Storytelling as a Healing Art
* A weekend with Nancy Mellon at the Center for Cultural Evolution
* July, 2003.
* Colrain, MA
* Contact Nancy Mellon or Storymom.


Programs outside the USA
Storytelling as a Healing Art
* February 14-15, 2003.
* Co Clare, Ireland
* Contact Nancy Mellon.

Storytelling as a Healing Art
* February 21-23, 2003.
* Uckfield, Sussex, UK
* Contact Play Therapy UK, Monika Jephcott at 01825 712312

Storytelling as a Healing Art
* a six week full time course
* February 24 - April 4, 2003.
* School of Storytelling, Emerson College, Sussex, England
        How can stories help us understand ourselves and others, especially during times of stress and change? With a background of modern psychology, this six-week course will provide practical guidance for storytelling and storymaking, to meet a broad spectrum of personal and social needs in children and adults. Working with biography we will also discover how voice, gesture and image stimulate healthy development at whatever stage of life we find ourselves. Trust, self-esteem, wonder and forgiveness will be cultivated through storytelling arts. The course includes painting, movement, dramatic arts and other forms of creative expression that awaken insight into one's own story and the story of others.
        The course is especially for caring professionals. Others who wish to deepen their work with storytelling as a transformative process are also invited to apply.

Jewels in the Shadows
* February 28 - March 2, 2003.
* School of Storytelling, Emerson College, Sussex, England

How the Body Speaks
* August 3 - 9, 2003.
* School of Storytelling, Emerson College, Sussex, England


For Emerson College events please contact Emerson College directly at:
Tel: (01342) 822238
Fax: (01342) 826055
E-mail: Emerson College

For further information or to arrange for a program or workshop in your area, call (603) 654-2982, or write to Storytelling as a Healing Art at 82 Gage Road, Wilton, NH 03086, U.S.A.



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