Now the time has come when the first participants have signed up.
This is great news!!!
I have sent out the little flyer around the world, and I'm getting lots of e-mails form people, who want to help spread the news by forwarding the flyer.
If you want to help send me an email at mach(ad)oncable.dk, and I'll mail it to you.
It is so nessecary that a lot of people help to 'spread the word', so that the whole world knows we're doing this!
'Storytelling as a healing art' is not just a buzz word.
In my practice as therapist I regurlarly help people change their life story through storytelling. Either I tell a suitable story to comfort or change their mind about the problem that is draining them for energy.
Storytelling is magic, it's great and it has worked forever!
In my own life storytelling is what makes the difference between being weak or strong in a time, when illness has entered my house and made my husband suffer from cancer.
If it hadn't been for the stories, I wouldn't have been able to carry on with my activities as I do.
Because the world needs stories!
And only by creating spaces for 'storytelling as a healing art' can we go on spreading the words of healing and comfort.
So let's get together at the symposium in July 2009 in Denmark.
http://www.mariannechristensen.dk/
lørdag den 21. februar 2009
søndag den 14. september 2008
Are you ready for a wonderful summer 2009?
There will be lots and lots of storytelling events throughout the year. Courses, festivals, meetings and so on.
For more than a year now, we have been working on making an International symposium for storytelling as a healing art in Denmark. Finally we are as close as we can get right now. And it is now possible to sign up for the symposium.
You can find all practical information at the home page http://www.mariannechristensen.dk/. Just follow the links. Everything concerning the symposium is in English.
We will be staying at Marjatta in a very extraordinary landscape with water, forest and open fields - all in the same spot.
It will be possible to have 90 participants at the symposium, so be sure to join soon.
Deadline for participating is May 15th, but please sign up before that.
The workshops:
1. Alexander MacKenzie, Ireland: Parcival and personal leadership in business
2. Bente Klerke, Denmark: Creating Healing Stories
3. Inger Lise Oelrich, Sweden: Healing words: Revitalizing the earth through story
4. Lewis Mehl-Madrona, Canada: The Healing Power of community
5. Nancy Mellon, USA, The Eloquence of the Body
6. Roi Gal-Or, Israel/England: The doors of perception
Karsten Mathiasen, Denmark, will facilitate storytelling sessions about forgiveness during lunch breaks
The Klezmerduo will participate with music throughout the week.
torsdag den 11. september 2008
Find Marjatta on the map
Marjatta is the main institution, where we will have workshops and gatherings in the morning and in the evening.
Bredeshave is where we meet during meals, breaks and networking.
Most sleeping rooms will be at Brøderup Ungdomsskole
There is a shortcut through Sjolte.
View map here
Bredeshave is where we meet during meals, breaks and networking.
Most sleeping rooms will be at Brøderup Ungdomsskole
There is a shortcut through Sjolte.
View map here
onsdag den 27. august 2008
Struggling against the wind
Some few years ago, when I had just started rowing kayak, I went out for a short trip one nice, sunny afternoon. But before going out on the water, I put my finger up in the air to meassure the wind, and it seemed ok for me.
I rowed east along the beautiful coast of South Sealand, and I really enjoyed having the wind in my back. The waves seemed wonderful and they carried me along, so it felt quite easy.
When I got to my destination and should turn and row back, it felt as if the wind was blowing a bit stronger. I looked at the waves and yes, they were bigger, and the wind was getting stronger.
Being outside in strong wind doesn't normally bother me, but here the waves were affected by the wind, and they were quite lively.
My kayak started to live it's own life more and less, and I decided to hurry back before the wind got even stronger.
I rowed and rowed with all my (very little) strength, and I seemed to move slower than ever. I was getting tired, but my mind was strong. I realised, that I was actually a little afraid that the kayak would tilt, so I would fall into the water.
So I tried to find a nice rhytm, I sang a song where the rhytm fit perfectly for the tempo I wanted to achieve. It went quite well, but I could feel I was getting angry at the wind, and I decided to fight it.
I bit my teeth tightly together and rowed harder.
I still had the feeling of moving slowly although I was using all my strength, and I kept looking at the boat house in the distance that I was heading for.
I had to take a tiny little rest to breathe normally, and when I did that I noticed the water. I saw the plants at the bottom, and I saw that the water level was only about half a meter.
Then I started laughing. 'Am I really afraid of falling into water that is only half a meter deep?'
'Who am I to think, I can fight the wind!'
I might as well take it easy.
I took a deep breath and with this new, calm sensation in my whole body I rowed the rest of the way, still singing, but a whole lot more relaxed. I let the kayak follow the rhytm of the waves, and I'm sure it did'nt take any longer to get to the boat house that way. But it was much more fun and I felt a little more connected to the Universe.
What did I learn?
A lot but most important for me:
Even though I'm rowing against the wind I can still relax and enjoy the trip.
I rowed east along the beautiful coast of South Sealand, and I really enjoyed having the wind in my back. The waves seemed wonderful and they carried me along, so it felt quite easy.
When I got to my destination and should turn and row back, it felt as if the wind was blowing a bit stronger. I looked at the waves and yes, they were bigger, and the wind was getting stronger.
Being outside in strong wind doesn't normally bother me, but here the waves were affected by the wind, and they were quite lively.
My kayak started to live it's own life more and less, and I decided to hurry back before the wind got even stronger.
I rowed and rowed with all my (very little) strength, and I seemed to move slower than ever. I was getting tired, but my mind was strong. I realised, that I was actually a little afraid that the kayak would tilt, so I would fall into the water.
So I tried to find a nice rhytm, I sang a song where the rhytm fit perfectly for the tempo I wanted to achieve. It went quite well, but I could feel I was getting angry at the wind, and I decided to fight it.
I bit my teeth tightly together and rowed harder.
I still had the feeling of moving slowly although I was using all my strength, and I kept looking at the boat house in the distance that I was heading for.
I had to take a tiny little rest to breathe normally, and when I did that I noticed the water. I saw the plants at the bottom, and I saw that the water level was only about half a meter.
Then I started laughing. 'Am I really afraid of falling into water that is only half a meter deep?'
'Who am I to think, I can fight the wind!'
I might as well take it easy.
I took a deep breath and with this new, calm sensation in my whole body I rowed the rest of the way, still singing, but a whole lot more relaxed. I let the kayak follow the rhytm of the waves, and I'm sure it did'nt take any longer to get to the boat house that way. But it was much more fun and I felt a little more connected to the Universe.
What did I learn?
A lot but most important for me:
Even though I'm rowing against the wind I can still relax and enjoy the trip.
søndag den 17. august 2008
The beach
As the symposium is going to take place right next to a beautiful bay, Præstø Fjord, I found it obvious to make it possible for the participants to go bathing.
There are lots of plants by the water, and it seemed to be a bit difficult to get through these plants. So I got the brilliant idea, that we should make a bridge so that people could walk over the plants.
I called the volunteers of the saving service, and after many mails and telephone calls we finally arranged a meeting yesterday. I was there in time. I waited...., and waited, but noone showed up. After 10 minutes finally the phone rang. It turned out that 'Strandvejen' is very long and because of the zip code confusion, they had landed in Præstø. Five minutes later they still hadn't arrived. 12 more minutes later I called back.
'Where are you, you should be here by now?
Well, the GPS had sent them to strange places, so I suggested they turned off the GPS and followed my instructions. Which they did, and 10 minutes later we finally met at the scene. They looked at the place, and it seemed like a task they would like to have and it wasn't impossible to make a bridge there.
While we were researching for the bridge, one of the staff members of Marjatta came driving by. He stopped, we told him about our research and asked him who owns the land.
He listened to us, and told us, that the municipality owns the land. But then he said: 'Why don't you use the little beach 100 meters further north? There is a nice acces to the water!'
I must admit I felt a bit stupid.
He was busy, so he left, and the little research group walked the 100 meters north, walked through the little field next to the road, behind the plants. And there it was, the cutest little beach! And though the water is quite low, you just have to walk a while in order to get a nice swim.
With red ears I had to apologise for having had them drive all the way to find out that there was already a beach. But they were quite satisfied to have found the place, which they didn't know existed, so now we were all happy.
And I just wondered how it happened that nobody had told me about the beach, because I've talking about it for a long time. Maybe it's because they did'nt know about it. Maybe it's because it's a secret little beach.
But it's very pretty. And I learned a new lesson.
There are lots of plants by the water, and it seemed to be a bit difficult to get through these plants. So I got the brilliant idea, that we should make a bridge so that people could walk over the plants.
I called the volunteers of the saving service, and after many mails and telephone calls we finally arranged a meeting yesterday. I was there in time. I waited...., and waited, but noone showed up. After 10 minutes finally the phone rang. It turned out that 'Strandvejen' is very long and because of the zip code confusion, they had landed in Præstø. Five minutes later they still hadn't arrived. 12 more minutes later I called back.
'Where are you, you should be here by now?
Well, the GPS had sent them to strange places, so I suggested they turned off the GPS and followed my instructions. Which they did, and 10 minutes later we finally met at the scene. They looked at the place, and it seemed like a task they would like to have and it wasn't impossible to make a bridge there.
While we were researching for the bridge, one of the staff members of Marjatta came driving by. He stopped, we told him about our research and asked him who owns the land.
He listened to us, and told us, that the municipality owns the land. But then he said: 'Why don't you use the little beach 100 meters further north? There is a nice acces to the water!'
I must admit I felt a bit stupid.
He was busy, so he left, and the little research group walked the 100 meters north, walked through the little field next to the road, behind the plants. And there it was, the cutest little beach! And though the water is quite low, you just have to walk a while in order to get a nice swim.
With red ears I had to apologise for having had them drive all the way to find out that there was already a beach. But they were quite satisfied to have found the place, which they didn't know existed, so now we were all happy.And I just wondered how it happened that nobody had told me about the beach, because I've talking about it for a long time. Maybe it's because they did'nt know about it. Maybe it's because it's a secret little beach.
But it's very pretty. And I learned a new lesson.
onsdag den 6. august 2008
The meeting
Today was the day of the meeting where we should talk about the details in the planning.
As the meeting developed, we decided we need to have more meetings for talking about specific details. There are many, many aspects to be aware of with such a big project.
Is it too big a job we've taken on?
Is it going to work there? Will I have to lik for another place?
Actually there were more questions than answers when we left the meeting.
But this is not unusual at this place in the proces of planning a symposium of this kind.
I'm not worried, it'll work out well.
I do get some wonderful e-mails from the workshop leaders and the board members. That is truly wonderful in order not to feel all alone in the planning proces.
As the meeting developed, we decided we need to have more meetings for talking about specific details. There are many, many aspects to be aware of with such a big project.
Is it too big a job we've taken on?
Is it going to work there? Will I have to lik for another place?
Actually there were more questions than answers when we left the meeting.
But this is not unusual at this place in the proces of planning a symposium of this kind.
I'm not worried, it'll work out well.
I do get some wonderful e-mails from the workshop leaders and the board members. That is truly wonderful in order not to feel all alone in the planning proces.
tirsdag den 5. august 2008
We've come very far already
There are so many details that have to be taken care of in order to get everything working perfectly.
All the workshops are arranged now, and now we just need some texts form some of the workshop leaders and photos of all of them. it's like gathering a puzzle - lots of fun to find all the pieces.
I recently found out, that it might be possible to apply for money to make it possible to invite some people from different places, where they cannot afford to come otherwise. I hope somebody will look more into that and help out writing the applications.
Tomorrow there is a new planning meeting, and soon we can send out information about the price for the participants. That'll be a great moment!
I've found out that many people already know about the symposium, it's as if it is beginning to live it's own life. How wonderful, and there is exactly one year left before it takes place from 26th og July till August 1st 2009.
All the workshops are arranged now, and now we just need some texts form some of the workshop leaders and photos of all of them. it's like gathering a puzzle - lots of fun to find all the pieces.
I recently found out, that it might be possible to apply for money to make it possible to invite some people from different places, where they cannot afford to come otherwise. I hope somebody will look more into that and help out writing the applications.
Tomorrow there is a new planning meeting, and soon we can send out information about the price for the participants. That'll be a great moment!
I've found out that many people already know about the symposium, it's as if it is beginning to live it's own life. How wonderful, and there is exactly one year left before it takes place from 26th og July till August 1st 2009.
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