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THE USE OF STORY TELLING
IN ADULT LEARNING AND GUIDANCE PRACTICE

a conference held in November 2003
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background and aim

There is good reason to believe that creative learning experiences help people to work out what to do - in both their paid and unpaid working lives. But we are still waiting for the cultural shift that will realise the potential in this idea.

Storytelling and reminiscence work can help a lot – particularly among people in disadvantaged communities. Guidance workers, adult educators and learning advisers help. But just as important is informal talk with volunteers -through mentoring support and ‘conversations in corridors’.

The aim of the conference is to help you with this work, if you are a...

...guidance worker
...adult educator
...community learning adviser
...volunteer


You will identify the skills which are useful to using story telling, and you will see how to integrate those skills with you own practice.

programme

The programme is designed to explore storytelling from three perspectives.


Firstly: listening to a story in a large group and exploring how you, as a professional or volunteer make sense of it in relation to the work you do.
Secondly: introducing a theoretical perspective on storytelling, especially in respect of reminiscence and working with clients in one-to-one interactions.
Finally: exploring how adult students on a play-writing course have written stories, and, in particular, we will enjoy their performance of some of these.


The programme will feature discussion and plenary sessions. The sessions will feature:


Vayu Naidu, Lecturer in Storytelling University of Kent
on
'Telling Stories, Revealing Cultures'

David Heley, WEA Tutor Organiser South Eastern District WEA Students: Brighton Branch
on
'Writing Stories, Writing Lives’

Joanna Bornat, Senior Lecturer (Ageing) Open University
on
Reminiscence Work: Concepts, Context, Practice’

Tony Cooper, Professional Story teller
on
‘Tale Weaving: Stories at Work, Stories at Play’

Cathy Hull, Senior Lecturer, Department of Career and Personal Development, Canterbury Christ Church University College
on
‘The Next Steps: Taking The Ideas Forward’


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Moira Hyde's impressions from this conference
eaves-droppings from the conference

update on another conference - Challenging Biographies conference and report
updated version of ‘Guidance: too many lists, not enough stories'

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