Story Roots for Sustainable Futures Reflection
This course was the most unconventional one I have done and one I have enjoyed most. I really loved sharing my story and hearing other people’s. By learning about and practicing oral storytelling and its different elements, I built a new skill through this course, one that is so important yet often underappreciated. We also learned about valuable stories from people in the group’s lives and different cultures.
I used my story from the World of Story twine project about a man who turns into a tree and used different physicality, memory, etc and thought in depth about how to tell it. It was really valuable to go on the journey of building on and learning your narrative and through building the skill of oral storytelling, we had to incorporate physicality and trust, building confidence and community.
In this course, we learned about traditional narratives, oral storytelling, and how indigenous traditions maintained oral storytelling in their culture. We also explored fairy tales.
-theory:
-potentially most relevant theory to my futures project
-climate change, sustainable development goals, the Earth Charter
-different levels of narratives – meta narratives and creating alternative narratives/ counter-narratives
-narrative therapy
–The Earth Stories Collection: How to Make Another World Possible with Myths, Legends and Traditional Stories by Grian A. Cutanda
-Toolkit: Creating & Roleplaying Alternative Stories
Sources used for toolkit:
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