Regarding
the 11-session Course on
"Using
a 'Storytelling Therapy' Method
for
Life Coaching, Counselling, and
Therapy,"
which has been taught 3
times
each year from 2017 to 2020 --
Dr
Eric is now giving training in this
material
one-on-one.
The content
of the trainings is similar
whether
it is taught to a group, or
one-on-one.
***
Applications
of this Storytelling Therapy
method
include:
* Providing Training in Life Skills, Soft
Skills,
and
Communication Skills,
* Providing Life Coaching,
* Facilitating Personality Development, and
* Facilitating Healing,
in
addition to Providing Counselling and Therapy.
***
In the
one-on-one format:
8
weekly (60-minute) sessions,
on
days and times to be arranged.
Via Zoom
videoconference, or in Dr Eric's
roof-top
garden in Mylapore, Chennai.
Fee:
Rs 12,000.
***
A
Review of the Course (by a participant) is here.
***
The Storytelling
Therapy method I am helping
to
develop, and am practising and teaching,
has 8
steps:
1)
Tell one's "Life story" (perhaps a ten-minute version).
2)
Listeners share similar experiences.
3)
Identify turning points, outstanding motifs, and themes.
4)
Gather "Associative stories" (using free association).
5) Add
to and otherwise modify any of the above-mentioned stories.
6)
Speak to and as characters in the stories.
7)
Bring to mind metaphors for aspects of the stories.
8)
Compose a "Healing story" (An Inspiring / Encouraging /
Guiding
/ Integrating / Transforming story.)
As part of
> 6) Speak to and as characters in the stories,
we would use the "Active Imagination" technique
that was first developed by Carl Jung,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_imagination
The 8 steps in more detail are here.
This 8-step method is based on
Carl Jung's
3-step therapeutic approach.
***
Links
to the Course readings (most of
them
are optional) are at
http://storytellinginstitute.org/215.html
There
is only one written assignment
(to
write down the Healing/Transforming
story
one would have composed for oneself).
***
Fairytale
Therapy is an important part of
this
Course. The Course reading list has
numerous
essays on the topic, including
my essay,
"Fairytale
Therapy: A Type of Storytelling Therapy,"
http://storytellinginstitute.org/Fairytale_Therapy.pdf
***
Regarding
my experience with
Storytelling
and Videoconferencing --
Links
to recordings of 20 videoconferences
I have
co-facilitated over the past 20 years
are at
http://storytellinginstitute.org/av.html
.
(Item 22
on this webpage is a link to a
recording
of part of the Opening Session
of the
Feb-May 2020 edition of this Course.)
In
2017, I guest-edited "Ways Storytellers
are
Using Audio- and Videoconferencing
for
Training, Discussion, and Performance" --
a
12-page section of the USA National
Storytelling
Network's Storytelling Magazine.
This
section is at
http://storytellinginstitute.org/Teleconferencing.pdf
***
Regrding
Counselling:
I have
earned an MSc in Psychology from the
University
of Madras., and have also completed
a
one-year course on "Psychological Counselling"
given
by Chennai Counsellors' Foundation
I am on staff as Psychological Counsellor at
at Apollo Hospitals (Apollo Clinic, T Nagar, Chennai),
https://askapollo.com/doctors/psychologist/chennai/dr-eric-miller .
***
The
group Course is described further here.
Please
let me know if you might have any
questions
relating to the one-on-one training
that
is currently (March 2021) being offerred
instead
of the Course.
***
Best
regards,
- Eric
Chennai
Dr
Eric Miller
(PhD
in Folklore, MSc in Psychology)
India
mobile: 98403 94282
eric@storytellinginstitute.org
http://storytellingandvideoconferencing.com
Director,
World
Storytelling Institute,
Chennai
Storytelling Festival,
Storytelling
Therapy Association of India --
http://storytellinginstitute.org
and
Virtual
Storytelling Conference (16-17 May 2020),
http://storytellingandvideoconferencing.com/conference.html
Assistant
Director,
East
West Center for Counselling and Training,
Indian
Institute of Psychodrama --
https://centerforcounselling.org
Co-facilitator,
Indian
Storytelling Network --
https://indianstorytellingnetwork.org
Bio-data,
https://indianstorytellingnetwork.org/Chennai.html#Eric
Life
Narrative,
http://storytellingandvideoconferencing.com/01.html
CV,
http://storytellingandvideoconferencing.com/02.pdf
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