Storytellers at SOS

Throughout the S.O.S. day, storytellers will be telling short tales to illuminate each of the Stages of Relationship Breakdown Recovery – Starting Over Stories!

Award winning storyteller Madeleine Grove will be leading those storytellers and she tells us why stories are so powerful in helping people to ‘start over’:

“Stories speak to us in a direct way – we absorb truths, teaching, and healing effortlessly when we hear a story.  That’s why the great teachers have always used them. In my clinics I find stories so valuable. A patient who may be struggling with health issues can often see the images in a simple tale that can illuminate their own life.

For instance? Well… there is a Scottish story of a fisherman who found a mermaid and took her home, took off her tail and hid it. Years later, the mermaid/wife finds her wondrous tail again, puts it on and dives back into her element, back into the sea, never to return again to the heart-broken man. A little story like that can open up the imagination and give someone a safe way to look at what ‘parts’ of themselves were left out of a marriage or a relationship and how that may have contributed to the break-down of the partnership.

So throughout the S.O.S. day storytellers will be telling short tales (about five minutes long) to illuminate each of the Stages of Recovery (recovery from the breakdown of a relationship), Starting Over Stories!”

Madeleine Grove is a registered homeopath practicing in Kent, Sussex, and London. She is also an award-winning storyteller – winner of an Argus Golden Angel Award for Artistic Excellence at the 2007 Brighton Fringe Festival for ‘Psyche and Eros’, a storytelling and musical extravaganza, with fellow storyteller Stella Kassimati and musicians Robin Jeffrey and Alessandra Testai. For further information about Madeleine’s work and upcoming workshops in England and Crete visit www.madeleinegrove.com.
 
Learn more about how storytelling can be a healing art on our SOS Village resource site here: