GROUP STORYTELLING & CREATIVE EXPRESSION
The Storytelling Project
Facilitator’s Manual
A step-by-step guide to leading groups through cultural stories, creative activities and the development of their own original tales.
- 54 PDF pages
- 11 sessions
- Published • 2005
By Annabelle Nelson
A RESOURCE FOR GROUP FACILITATORS
Guide the group.
Let stories unfold.
For educators, youth workers and workshop leaders, this manual provides a sequence of storytelling activities, discussion prompts and creative exercises leading toward a group storytelling concert.
Lead with stories
Use cultural tales and discussion to introduce story structure.
Explore characters
Bring symbols and archetypes to life through drawing and collage.
Share original tales
Guide participants from story ideas to rehearsal and performance.
WHAT YOU'LL EXPLORE
From listening.
To storytelling.
Eleven sessions build toward creating and sharing a story. Three appendices provide plays, guidance on learning a story and story-stage cards.
Stories & discussion
Explore Sturt’s Desert Pea and Xenophobe.
Group storytelling
Build a story together through shared ideas.
Warm-ups & symbols
Use animal introductions, drawing and improvisation.
Story development
Use worksheets to shape characters, challenges and helpers.
Archetypes & collage
Explore characters and represent them creatively.
Practice & performance
Rehearse original stories and hold a storytelling concert.
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about the author
Annabelle Nelson, PhD
Professor, School of Human Organization and Development at Fielding Graduate University.
Annabelle has a lifelong passion for understanding how humans learn, so that programs can match these natural tendencies and can help humans become healthy emotionally and spiritually. That pursuit has led Nelson to seek authenticity in her own awareness and contact the healing and spiritual force within. She has practiced yoga, meditation, imagery, and storytelling, all in her quest to allow the spirit within to be unleashed to move into health and happiness.
Nelson holds a Ph.D. from the University of Kansas in Developmental and Child Psychology, is a Professor at the Fielding Graduate University and is the founder of the WHEEL Council, Wholistic, Health, Education and Empowerment for Life. She was also a Fulbright scholar to India. She is an author, storyteller, teacher, and program developer.
Nelson holds a Ph.D. from the University of Kansas in Developmental and Child Psychology, is a Professor at the Fielding Graduate University and is the founder of the WHEEL Council, Wholistic, Health, Education and Empowerment for Life. She was also a Fulbright scholar to India. She is an author, storyteller, teacher, and program developer.
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