Storyteller Course

Description

The 8-hour Storyteller course includes video lessons with recorded stories as told by Martin Shaw before a live audience along with insight into the stories. The course is intended to be completed in 5 weeks. Watch the introduction to the course here.

• 16 lessons from Martin Shaw
• 6 stories told on stage by Martin Shaw
• Insight into the stories from Martin Shaw
• Study questions
• Practices
• Transcripts

Learning Objectives

Throughout the Storyteller course you will:

• explore what it means for you to become a storyteller or a story carrier.
• learn how to hear a story and think deeply through myth.
• wrestle with the questions that arise from the old stories.
• discover ways to embody a story.
• consider cultural implications of storytelling.
• practice telling stories.

Learning Activities

Each week (or at your own pace) you will:

• watch two video lessons on what it means to tell a story.
• listen to a myth told by Martin Shaw and hear insights into the telling.
• reflect on study questions.
• put the teaching into practice.
• connect with other learners in the private Facebook community group for MysterySchool storytellers.

Course Overview

1. The Imagination of Beginnings
2. Initiation and Cultural Memory
3. The Fox Woman Story
4. Wildness & Discipline
5. The Artfulness of Image
6. Tatterhood Story
7. The Heartbeat of Everything
8. Truth & Bewonderment
9. The Lindworm Story
10. The Authenticity of Incompleteness
11. The Handless Maiden Story
12. Trailing not Trapping
13. Power, Exile, Monsters
14. The Woman Who Became a Fox Story
15. The Marriage of Gawain to Lady Ragnell Story
16. Conclusion