Join our oral storytelling workshop in the park!
Personal narratives are powerful. They are developed through a mixture of experiences and personality, and they create the lens through which we see the world. Our personal narratives tell us what we can and cannot do. They tell us how we expect to be treated. Listening to true stories can widen our perspective and help us realise what we have in common.
In this workshop, participants will bring a personal story of about 5 minutes based on a prompt. They will be given the basic tools to hone their story to present it to others. (Presenting your story to the group is optional.)
This workshop aims to:
Create a supportive space in which people can listen and be heard.
Provide tools for storytelling including (basic) story craft and performance tools.
Develop important skills, from social-emotional capacities to critical speaking, listening, and narrative skills.
Human beings continue to be inexplicably attracted to artful storytelling in every language, everywhere in the world.
What: Oral storytelling workshop based on personal narrative
When: Saturday 13 July
Time: 13h30 - 16h00
Where: Parc Elisabeth, Koekelberg
Price: €5
Sign up for the workshop.
Colette Victor and Juliet Bakas
Colette Victor is a South African, living in Brussels. She runs a small non-profit organisation that coaches schools in developing equal education opportunity policy. Outside of her day job, she’s an award-winning author and a trained creative writing teacher with many workshops and courses under her belt. Since recently, she is a budding personal narrative storytelling coach.
Juliet Bakas is a dedicated community worker with a passion for empowering vulnerable adults. With a background in social work, she’s spent the last three years helping individuals overcome challenges and find their voices. Recognizing the power of storytelling, she now facilitates workshops for people from all walks of life that encourage self-expression and connection through personal narrative.
