8th - 12th June 2026
Peredur Centre, East Grinstead, West Sussex, RH19 4NF, UK
A course for practitioners exploring how you can bring story wisdom into your work.
How can we create, find and hold spaces for human connection and empowered change, facing the storms of polarisation and divisive powers? How do we keep tending to the flame of visions for futures full of potential, possibility and creation, when our hearts are pressured and worried?
The folk tale Meat Without Salt tells of a king who asks his daughter for a meal of the finest food imaginable. She serves him with a bowl of ‘tongue stew’ saying:
“Father, the tongue is capable of the finest things in the world - speaking the words of love, friendship, healing, kindness, generosity, care and creation.”
When the King demands a meal made of the foulest thing, the princess serves the same stew: “Father, the tongue is capable of the foulest things in the world - sewing hate, separation, hurt, pain, prejudice and war.”
What stories are we called to give tongue to now, that can go beyond the binaries of ‘good and evil’ and help us listen to each other, and to a deeper wisdom. How does the imagination, sharing our stories, and communicating beyond words play a part in creating the world around us?
Storyteller facilitators and imaginures Roi Gal-Or and Hannah Moore are inviting you to a week-long intensive for practitioners who wish to develop their skills in applied storytelling - a space for enquiry, listening, reflecting, inspiration and renewal.
Bring your questions about working with story in the context of facilitation, coaching, therapy, group processes, workshops, training programmes, creative work, community building, education, activism, restorative and social justice, conflict resolution, peacebuilding and reconciliation.
The week will include time for:
Exploring how applied storytelling can support you in creating and holding transformative regenerative and visionary spaces.
Discover how imagination and storytelling can shape spaces of compassion, challenge and medicine, where we can safely explore difference, deepen connection, and set in motion the other-wise pathways- possible futures our imagination and our stories know is possible.
Storytelling and somatic exercises to support facilitators in navigating through challenging times of collapse, composting decaying stories, and growing in our own capacity to sit with the trouble in safe containers with others.
Supervision circles in which participants will be invited to present cases related to storytelling, space-holding, or storytelling practice, and receive collective listening, witnessing, and reflective support for professional development, integration and insight.
This course is for storytellers and story lovers - those who already tell and share stories as well as those who are excited to do so. The focus will be on ways of working with applied storytelling in interpersonal contexts, rather than how to tell stories.
Please click here to register your interest