Exploring ways to deliver transformational facilitation by working with the images, themes and wisdom held in traditional stories...
Tues 18 Nov - Thurs 20 Nov 2025
10:00-17:00
Hill House Retreat, Amberley, Stroud, GL5 5AL
£280 - Early bird before 20 Oct 2025
£360 - Standard
£320 - Concession
£90 for shared, self-catering accommodation onsite
A three day programme for facilitators and people who work with people, exploring ways to bring in the rich tools and materials of traditional stories - folk tales, fairy tales, myths, teaching stories and personal tales - within your facilitative practice.
Are you a storyteller, educator, trainer, space-holder, creative practitioner, therapist, support worker, facilitator, restorative justice practitioner, mediator or workshop leader? Or simply someone who cares about the power of stories to help transform and heal?
Are you interested in using stories to support your work and the processes you take people through, or to support yourself?
Would you like to explore skilful ways to bring stories in to facilitate - ?:
Important conversations
Deep reflection
Safe spaces
Creative practices
Work with lived experience
Transformational group work
These three days are an invitation for professionals to develop their practice by creatively investigating how stories can support their work.
Including:
Building up a resource kit of different stories that you could bring to different situations and challenges as a starting point for reflection and discussion
Using traditional stories to create safe spaces for sharing personal stories, exploring lived experience and having difficult conversations
Developing your facilitation skills with stories as methodology
Using stories to facilitate creative and imaginative exercises for fresh thinking and new ideas - encouraging 'light bulb' moments for participants
Techniques for how to tell stories and bring them to life effectively
Exploring the dangers, challenges, fruits, riches, transformations, and bridge building potential that working with stories can involve
Lunches and refreshments will be provided.
The venue:
Hill House Sanctuary is set in beautiful grounds on the edge of the beautiful Minchinhampton Common, near Stroud (Gloucestershire) with nature walks in abundance. Hill House serves as a sanctuary primarily providing retreats, workshops, away days and residential stays for forced migrants, including refugees, those seeking asylum and survivors of trafficking and torture. The charity is supported by income from external retreats like Storytelling Within Facilitation. It is a place with a deep sense of peacefulness, warmth and welcome. It's always an honour to hold events there.
Access:
There is plenty of parking on the village lanes around Hill House.
It is a 10 minute drive or taxi ride from Stroud station and Stroud town centre.
Please contact Hannah to discuss and access needs and what the venue can accommodate: hannahmoorestoryteller@gmail.com