Story Telling for Children

“The function of stories is to regulate the household of our soul.
They are our interior ecology. They transform, heal and
educate the psyche, and via the psyche the world. ”

| Horst Kornberger

We are all storytellers by birth, even if it is in the stories we tell ourselves in secret. To share our stories and those from our culture and history and imagination is quiet another thing however, a deeply moving gift for the listeners, and the teller. But how do we cross that threshold from the story within to a story told with love, and especially to a group of young children whose natures live in storyland?

Stories are nourishment for children as well as a gateway for their own learning of speech. The act of listening to the ‘good’ speech of adults plays a great part in growth of the ability to speak.

Stories enhance warmth and bonding, as well as a providing healing path, Story Medicine.

This module presents these topics for exploration:

• The developmental and curative gifts of story telling for both teller and listener.

• Story telling and the developmental path of early childhood.

• Different kinds of stories & different reasons for telling.

• Steiner Education-inspired guidelines for developing story-telling abilities.

• Approaching your personal threshold as a storyteller, identifying the next step, and working with blockages and talents for taking that step.

• Making up stories yourself and with a child.

• Planned and spontaneous storytelling.

• The ‘Presence’ of the Story Teller

• Story Telling practice ‘on your threshold’.