Here are all three of my Story Practitioner courses!
I run them online for groups of 6 or more - 6 months for each chourse. You get one free place if you can gather a group together.
All courses have a certificate at the end.
Story Practitioner 1
"Story Compass"
Story Practitioner 2
"Story Vessel"
Story Practitioner 3
"It is Written in the Stones"
Story Compass
Here is a course working creatively and in depth with story through the Medicine Story Wheel. It covers the 4 Directions of North: Author; East: Life line; South: ancestral banks and West: Myth. The course is a study of self, environment and timeframes to be able to enter into story fields at work in our lives and effect change.
The course can supplement current story telling, psychotherapeutic or shamanic work or be pursued for personal development. Each element comes with literature and 4 weeks of material and 1 group meeting. The course includes 2 in person story-counselling sessions. Meetings and sessions are arranged at times suitable for each person who enrols.
In the Story wheel, each of the 4 directions relates to the information held by the physical body, the vibration of the lifeline, the lives of the ancestors and then the dimension of myth that are the planes behind this one. Each of these places in time, space and then beyond informs and affects the lives we individually live and the story field we operate inside.
The course is a study of self, environment and timeframes that opens our awareness so as Story Practitioners, we are be able to enter into story fields at work in our lives and affect change.
Telling and Creating stories
We work with telling our own stories through various mediums such as:
Writing
Miming
Speaking
Acting
Drawing
Mapping
Multi-sensory
Movement
Taking a walk
Nature responding
Vision tracking
Listening and responding
Working through the 4 Directions
The four direction areas of Author, Lifeline, Ancestral banks and Myth will each take the focus for a period of 6 weeks. The material for each quarter will be taught in the workshop day and will be offered as literature and exercises in a framework that repeats throughout the 4 Directions but offers different material and ideas for deepening each time.
Through working with the material individually and in the workshop space, as a group, each person will come in touch with a deeper appreciation of how story works. They will be guided to learn how to hold space for others with the Story Wheel set up as a listening template.
A character from the vat of great stories and rhymes oversees or helps to inform each quarter. Mother Goose, Merlin, Sleeping Beauty’s Prince and Anansi the Spider are some of the characters that help the dimension we are looking into to find more context. Parts of the stories these characters come from become an environment for the study of the story field in that quarter and dimension.
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Excavating story as a healing art
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A story for each quarter will be excavated and brought through by each person who takes part through the flow of the course material.
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Who would benefit from this course?
The course can supplement current story telling, psychotherapeutic or shamanic work or be pursued for personal development. The course work becomes the material that is then available to be used by others as inspiration for others. Written material form the course is copyrighted by Carol Day and so needs to be referred to the author as her material, but inspired ideas and their subsequent development by individuals can be freely shared.
What the course includes
Each element comes with literature and 4 weeks of material and 1 group meeting. The course includes 2 in person story-counselling session. Meetings and sessions are arranged at times suitable for each person who enrols.
The start date is for when the literature content begins.
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Cost online: £700
This may be paid in instalments of £175
The Mountains Write Through Us
STORY PRACTITIONER CERTIFICATION 6 MONTH ONLINE TRAINING LEVEL 2
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STORIES OF THE PEOPLE AND THE LAND
A MYTHICAL ENCOUNTER WITH THE MUNROS OF SCOTLAND
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This is level 2 of the Story Practitioner courses that are designed to equip people to work creatively and in depth with story through the Medicine Story Wheel.
The second course covers the 4 Directions of North, East South and West and the centre and this time takes people on a journey with some of the munros, laws or mounds of Scotland and their myths.
Story Practitioner 2 continues to develop the Roles of the Story Practitioner (SVACC)
As in Level 1:
The Story Weaver will be encouraged to listen and to open expressive flow. The Visionary Operator will open up the medicine wheel and invite in the perspectives of the different realms.
The Artist in each us will be encouraged to create and respond.
The Counsellor will hold presence, unconditional appreciation and wonder.
The Constellation Practitioner will learn the ways of disentanglement and the power of giving names and places to things to bring freedom and autonomy.
For six months, we take a metaphorical trek across the hills and land of Scotland with five of the Mountain spirits as our guides! Stories of the people and the land come through us as we tap into the archetypal forces and connect with the ones on the land where we live too.
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Story Practitioner 2 (Story Vessel) is designed to bring confidence and flow to the Story holder within and to also encourage this in the people we work with as we tap into the holding stations of the mountains and the significance of humans and land in story work. The focus in Part 2 is to bring to the fore the healing power of story.
A certificate is issued on completion of this course.
A course in 5 parts. Each part is 5 weeks.
£750 (or £150 in 5 instalments)
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Story Practitioner 3: It is Written in the Stones
The Story Practitioner level 3 online Programme starts its journey on 1 August 2024 and completes 16 January 2025. Intro literature will be sent out on 9 June which you can use to prepare for the first few weeks.
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Telling and Creating stories
We work with telling our own stories and the practice of ‘opening realms’ through story attuning and four mediums in turn which include:
Edge walking
Wing growing
Lighting the way to Death
Bringing in the Mythical
Ethos and Approach
The course has a strong introduction that as well as revisiting the setting up of a 4Directions Story Practitioner ethos, philosophy and approach presents ideas and a backdrop for work with lore and the stones. Each person continues a practice of holding presence, this time embodying attunement within the bodily system. They will be operating with the Visionary template of presence with the triangle of nature, knowing and trust and the circle of intuition.
Each practitioner will set up a Story base on a local stone site that they will return to in person or through virtual contact, making a strong relationship with place through this and making connection with the stones of the attunement points.
Concentration on presence in the physical body and body as attunement guide will be an important part of level 3, as will the cultivation of intuition. Development of techniques will be included to allow attunement to grow in strength, both within the self and in those whom we work with.
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The stones
Ring of Brodgar, Orkney
The Recumbent Stone Circles, Aberdeenshire
Machrie Moor stones, Isle of Arran
Calanais, Isle of Lewis
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Attuning to story fields as a healing art
A story for the stones of each of the four sectors will be attuned and brought through by each person who takes part through the flow of the course material.
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£700 OR 4 PAYMENTS OF £175
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Contact wholenesstemplate@gmail.com for details and form. ​​