25 - 27 Nov 2016
Corrymeela Ballycastle

Storywork – Narrative Practice Weekend

25 – 27 November, 2016

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From healthcare to business, from congregational work to community work, it is being increasingly recognised that story is a key factor in personal and group wellbeing. When a person can know their story, can know that their story will be heard, can find words to share their story, and can find ways in which their story both resembles and differs from others’ wellbeing is deepened.

For 50 years Corrymeela has been a place of story. We have been a gathering place where people from many sides of conflict and division have shared their story. While for many years we held much of this work quietly, we are now beginning to offer training courses on using narrative practice in your personal, community and professional life.

This weekend course will explore methodologies of narrative practice that are relevant for: Teamwork, Community development, Conflict situations.

We will cover some of the theoretical bases for understanding narrative dynamics within groups, and we will also cover a variety of practices for using narrative work in professional and community settings.

We will do most of this through doing narrative work ourselves – opening up stories amongst the gathered group, to show and share and develop methodologies that are relevant in the workplace environments of the participants.

Costs: £100 Shared room with limited availaility of single–occupancy rooms available for £120

“We do not tell stories as they are; we tell them as we are.”