Weaving Words of Wonder – Learn the Art of Oral Storytelling

Learn the art and craft of storytelling to any audience of all ages with fun, imaginative, practical activities, and tangible tools and techniques that will help you to: select, remember, craft, refine, and present your stories in ways to engage and compel your listeners.

Most of us have grown up not realising that being a storyteller is our birthright and as natural as breathing. Until we are actually shown and taught – HOW – for many the concept of oral storytelling remains a wistful mystery consigned to artists and performers. At the same time we instinctively know that in telling a story something ancient awakens that can act as a powerful medicine to strip away digital blare and allow our listeners to collectively enter into a space of shared wonder and belonging.

Many of the tools you will learn in this workshop to become an engaging and effective storyteller hail directly from a storytelling lineage from Emerson College in the UK where Melaina undertook a three-month residential storytelling course (amongst numerous other storytelling workshops, experiences, performances, trainings, and events).

In the company of other curious story explorers (from those who have never-told-a-story to those further along), you will have the opportunity to learn how to gift others with stories you tell well and in ways that can deepen, enrich, nourish, inspire, amuse, entertain, move, encourage, outrage, and offer wonder to daily existence!

The weekend workshop runs from 9-5pm Saturday and 12-5pm Sunday on Saturday and Sunday the 25th and 26th of July.

About your facilitator:

MELAINA FARANDA has delivered storytelling performances across Australia and overseas. The author of seventy books published nationally and internationally, Melaina attended England’s premier storytelling course, the Emerson College residential – Storytelling Beyond Words, along with additional in-person training with Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Dr Martin Shaw, Dr Sharon Blackie, Roi Gal-Or, Karmit Evenzur, Ashley Ramsden, Shonaleigh Cumbers, Hugh Lupton, Angharad Wynne, Colin Campbell, and many storytelling luminaries in the UK and USA. A lover of the mythopoetic, she feels that to speak and listen to certain stories is to be breathed through with silver and gold. Deeply passionate about sharing skills and knowledge – she continues to teach and facilitate numerous workshops and retreats across Australia for decades to rave acclaim.