_ The Healing Power of Stories
Certificate Trainings with Nancy Mellon
Each Healing Power of Stories Certificate Training meets for seven weekends and a five-day intensive, with teleconferences and online community.
San Francisco CA . This New Certificate Training program focuses especially on young children and their adult caretakers. Further details with registration.
At this very challenging time of human evolution, you are invited to enhance your knowledge of the whole child and of your adult presence, as we explore ways to encourage the intricate communion of the human body and soul and spirit.
This course will include a rich array of experiential exercises, both vocal and non-verbal. Learn story archetypes and creative artistic dynamics that help us more consciously welcome the ever-present soul and spirit weaving in all our human processes. Explore the dynamics of skeletal and muscular development, breathing, brain and nervous function, immune system, digestive, sexual and endocrine activities through the eyes of imagination. You will gain transformational skill and new confidence as a storyteller who offers supportive, healing medicine for child health and for adult personal and community development.
October 25-27, 2013; November 22-24, 2013;January 24-26, 2014; February28-March 2, 2014; May 23-25, 2014; August 13-17, 2014. To register and with questions, please contact Wendolyn Bird, Registrar at 415-419-5274, or email her at tendertracks@gmail.com. Space is limited, so early registration is advised.
Seattle, Washington This Certificate Training Program, from September 2013- August 2014, is for the storyteller within you. The course is designed for healers, artists, educators, parents, and all who wish to take greater responsibility for their well-being, and to act as catalyst for more conscious evolution and health. It provides a uniquely practical curriculum for personal development.
To download the registration form go to:
http://www.soundcircle.org/?q=healing-story-training-nancy-mellon
With questions, please contact Kim Scanlon at scanlon.kim@gmail.com
Story process can be very real and potent medicine. Complementary and allopathic medical disciplines, together with a rich variety of storytelling and story making techniques, will offer you ways of gaining a deeper knowledge of your intuitive wisdom.
Participants will take on individual projects related to their own personal and professional development. Whatever your chosen method of storytelling — be it through the caring professions, writing, visual art, music, dance, — practicing stories attuned to the body’s intelligence will give you an inspirational and refreshing sense of skillfulness, joy and courage as you discover a broad variety of therapeutic insights and practical applications for storytelling.
The 21st Century invites us all to enhance our conscious ability to integrate body, mind, soul and spirit. Each meeting of this training will focus on the dynamics of stories that relate to specific organic patterning in body and soul. Like different instruments in an orchestra, the heart, liver, kidneys, lungs~~all our organs play an important part in our total well-being. The exercises will engage archetypal story-lines and characters, giving you many opportunities to greatly increase your awareness, power of observation, and to develop your storytelling skills and healing abilities.
Each of the eight sessions will focus on stories and two balancing organs, in accord with traditional Chinese medicine,
Session 1. Heart and Small Intestine
Session 2. Liver and Gall Bladder
Session 3. Lungs and Large Intestine
Session 4. Bladder and Kidneys
Session 5. Stomach and Spleen-Pancreas
Session 6. Genitals and Brain
Session 7. Skin and Pericardium
Session 8. Thymus and Appendix: Review and final group presentations
The course includes :
Finding Your Storyteller: the storyteller as healer
Why cultivate the art of storytelling in your personal and professional life?
How to find your inner storyteller and to help others to find theirs
Cultivating empathy through imagination, intuition, and the capacity for inspiration
How to connect with a broad variety of storytelling traditions
Understanding the importance of narrative approaches to health and healing
Storytelling through dance, poetry, writing, sculpture, music and the spoken word
How to work with resistance
Imagination and the Changing Maps of Human Physiology
Mythological expression of embryology and physiology
Epigenetics and the emerging science of self-development and healing
Physiology and Soul dynamics
Meridians and Energy flows: Traditional Chinese medicine, Kinesiology and Body Wisdom
Indigenous approaches to healing
Family genes and the search for the whole story
Storytelling for Resilience: the Immune Response System and the dynamics of stories
Defense systems in body, soul and mind: the Peaceful Warrior, the drama of lying. . .
The skin and the body's internal responsive orchestra and its search for tenderness and power
Building empathy and conscience through story
Envisioning the organs as realms of conscious evolution
Fair Is Fair: Storytelling for Integrity, Conscience and Moral Development
Listening to the wisdom of the heart in story and song
The science behind personal growth and communal evolution
Strategies for talking in the Greater Good
Storytelling as a Path to Practical Enlightenment
How to strengthen the kidneys and balance the adrenals through storytelling dynamics
Storytelling as sacrament
Spirited Digestion
New perspectives on the digestive system and its relationship to health on every level
Cultivating and transforming trauma and pain
How to enhance and to work creatively with memories
Sexuality and Truth
Storytelling and the drive to reproduce and to manifest greater beauty, goodness and truth
How the genitals and brain mix in creative and imaginative expression
The tuition fee for these trainings is $3000 ( $2800 if registered by July 1, 2013) This includes instruction, course materials, online community, and scheduled conference calls. Reasonably-priced room and board are additional. Travel expenses and accommodations are the responsibility of the participant.
With questions and to register by mail, contact the Registrar: Kim Scanlon at scanlon.kim@gmail.com Please find the application form at SoundCircle.org.
Space is limited so early registration is advised. You can reach Nancy Mellon at nancy@healingstory.com or telephone her at 831-372-1299.
Nancy Mellon, MA is a counselor and visionary author. Her newest book, Body Eloquence, won the 2008 US Books' Best Books Award in the field of Alternative Medicine. A pioneer in therapeutic storytelling, Nancy's workshops and courses brim with creativity. She teaches worldwide, inviting people from all walks of life to explore the body as a foundation for transforming the human story. A former Waldorf teacher who has specialized in healing through the arts for many years, she inspires deep listening and refreshing new perspectives on the physical body, as she facilitates healing on every level through spontaneous and traditional stories.
Certificate Trainings with Nancy Mellon
Each Healing Power of Stories Certificate Training meets for seven weekends and a five-day intensive, with teleconferences and online community.
San Francisco CA . This New Certificate Training program focuses especially on young children and their adult caretakers. Further details with registration.
At this very challenging time of human evolution, you are invited to enhance your knowledge of the whole child and of your adult presence, as we explore ways to encourage the intricate communion of the human body and soul and spirit.
This course will include a rich array of experiential exercises, both vocal and non-verbal. Learn story archetypes and creative artistic dynamics that help us more consciously welcome the ever-present soul and spirit weaving in all our human processes. Explore the dynamics of skeletal and muscular development, breathing, brain and nervous function, immune system, digestive, sexual and endocrine activities through the eyes of imagination. You will gain transformational skill and new confidence as a storyteller who offers supportive, healing medicine for child health and for adult personal and community development.
October 25-27, 2013; November 22-24, 2013;January 24-26, 2014; February28-March 2, 2014; May 23-25, 2014; August 13-17, 2014. To register and with questions, please contact Wendolyn Bird, Registrar at 415-419-5274, or email her at tendertracks@gmail.com. Space is limited, so early registration is advised.
Seattle, Washington This Certificate Training Program, from September 2013- August 2014, is for the storyteller within you. The course is designed for healers, artists, educators, parents, and all who wish to take greater responsibility for their well-being, and to act as catalyst for more conscious evolution and health. It provides a uniquely practical curriculum for personal development.
To download the registration form go to:
http://www.soundcircle.org/?q=healing-story-training-nancy-mellon
With questions, please contact Kim Scanlon at scanlon.kim@gmail.com
Story process can be very real and potent medicine. Complementary and allopathic medical disciplines, together with a rich variety of storytelling and story making techniques, will offer you ways of gaining a deeper knowledge of your intuitive wisdom.
Participants will take on individual projects related to their own personal and professional development. Whatever your chosen method of storytelling — be it through the caring professions, writing, visual art, music, dance, — practicing stories attuned to the body’s intelligence will give you an inspirational and refreshing sense of skillfulness, joy and courage as you discover a broad variety of therapeutic insights and practical applications for storytelling.
The 21st Century invites us all to enhance our conscious ability to integrate body, mind, soul and spirit. Each meeting of this training will focus on the dynamics of stories that relate to specific organic patterning in body and soul. Like different instruments in an orchestra, the heart, liver, kidneys, lungs~~all our organs play an important part in our total well-being. The exercises will engage archetypal story-lines and characters, giving you many opportunities to greatly increase your awareness, power of observation, and to develop your storytelling skills and healing abilities.
Each of the eight sessions will focus on stories and two balancing organs, in accord with traditional Chinese medicine,
Session 1. Heart and Small Intestine
Session 2. Liver and Gall Bladder
Session 3. Lungs and Large Intestine
Session 4. Bladder and Kidneys
Session 5. Stomach and Spleen-Pancreas
Session 6. Genitals and Brain
Session 7. Skin and Pericardium
Session 8. Thymus and Appendix: Review and final group presentations
The course includes :
Finding Your Storyteller: the storyteller as healer
Why cultivate the art of storytelling in your personal and professional life?
How to find your inner storyteller and to help others to find theirs
Cultivating empathy through imagination, intuition, and the capacity for inspiration
How to connect with a broad variety of storytelling traditions
Understanding the importance of narrative approaches to health and healing
Storytelling through dance, poetry, writing, sculpture, music and the spoken word
How to work with resistance
Imagination and the Changing Maps of Human Physiology
Mythological expression of embryology and physiology
Epigenetics and the emerging science of self-development and healing
Physiology and Soul dynamics
Meridians and Energy flows: Traditional Chinese medicine, Kinesiology and Body Wisdom
Indigenous approaches to healing
Family genes and the search for the whole story
Storytelling for Resilience: the Immune Response System and the dynamics of stories
Defense systems in body, soul and mind: the Peaceful Warrior, the drama of lying. . .
The skin and the body's internal responsive orchestra and its search for tenderness and power
Building empathy and conscience through story
Envisioning the organs as realms of conscious evolution
Fair Is Fair: Storytelling for Integrity, Conscience and Moral Development
Listening to the wisdom of the heart in story and song
The science behind personal growth and communal evolution
Strategies for talking in the Greater Good
Storytelling as a Path to Practical Enlightenment
How to strengthen the kidneys and balance the adrenals through storytelling dynamics
Storytelling as sacrament
Spirited Digestion
New perspectives on the digestive system and its relationship to health on every level
Cultivating and transforming trauma and pain
How to enhance and to work creatively with memories
Sexuality and Truth
Storytelling and the drive to reproduce and to manifest greater beauty, goodness and truth
How the genitals and brain mix in creative and imaginative expression
The tuition fee for these trainings is $3000 ( $2800 if registered by July 1, 2013) This includes instruction, course materials, online community, and scheduled conference calls. Reasonably-priced room and board are additional. Travel expenses and accommodations are the responsibility of the participant.
With questions and to register by mail, contact the Registrar: Kim Scanlon at scanlon.kim@gmail.com Please find the application form at SoundCircle.org.
Space is limited so early registration is advised. You can reach Nancy Mellon at nancy@healingstory.com or telephone her at 831-372-1299.
Nancy Mellon, MA is a counselor and visionary author. Her newest book, Body Eloquence, won the 2008 US Books' Best Books Award in the field of Alternative Medicine. A pioneer in therapeutic storytelling, Nancy's workshops and courses brim with creativity. She teaches worldwide, inviting people from all walks of life to explore the body as a foundation for transforming the human story. A former Waldorf teacher who has specialized in healing through the arts for many years, she inspires deep listening and refreshing new perspectives on the physical body, as she facilitates healing on every level through spontaneous and traditional stories.
