In 1996 Nancy Mellon started a School of Therapeutic Storytelling, which offers experiential training in storymaking and storytelling as a creative and transformative process. It is designed for caring professionals, parents, teachers, professional storytellers and others who wish to develop new understanding, skill, and confidence in storytelling as a healing art.

The training provides an integrated journey through individual projects and group participation. Participants study the influence of story on the health and development of individuals and groups. Types and qualities of imagination and narrative are explored, in relationship with a broad variety of challenges to physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health across the life span. The participants learn many ways to integrate speech, movement, music, color, writing and dramatic arts with storytelling and storymaking in their personal and professional lives.

Nancy Mellon offers workshops and courses, often with others, at many locations in the US and abroad. Her newest book, Body Eloquence, published in August 2008, is about the resonance between the whole human body and storytelling imagination. For more information visit Nancy Mellon's page and her books page.

Also offered are workshops and consultations in therapeutic storytelling and the art of storytelling for individuals, families, schools and organizations to support creativity, imagination and change, especially in times of challenge and stress.

"The workshop I attended with Nancy Mellon offered me a window into my soul and the creative powers that reside there. What was remarkable was that the workshop did the same for each participant, and the result was an outpouring of creativity that made the room come alive with pleasure, excitement, awe, mystery, magic and deep healing. Her storytelling work is profoundly important, especially now when our world desperately needs the power of our collective imaginations to create transformations."
-- Zoe Weil, Institute for Humane Education, Surrey, Maine.