Our world is built on them, we describe our lives with them, but we don't know how to get the most from them! Learn how to construct and deliver stories to teach, stories to heal, stories to discipline, all using the most magical side of language. Metaphor!
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| ‘At one point I asked Dr. Erickson the following question: “Would you say that you perceive all presenting symptoms and complaints as being metaphors that contain a story about the ‘real’ problem, and that your basic approach is to build metaphors that contain a story about the possible solution?” Dr. Erickson’s face lit up and, like a little boy finding a surprise, he said, “Exactly!” (p51. Monsters and Magical Sticks, Stephen Heller PhD. & Terry Steele 1987)
Storytelling is an ancient art through which metaphors were often used to transmit knowledge, to inspire, entertain, educate, chasten, and most importantly, to heal. In many ways it is being lost, or at least neglected, as the visual stimulus of the moving image sweeps all before it. Storytelling using metaphors is particularly relevant to therapists, parents and teachers. You will be given a number of the best to begin using immediately.
This course is aimed at understanding how to identify and best use the most appropriate metaphors within entertaining stories in order to heal, teach and develop. You will learn how to remember, construct and deliver powerful stories with confidence. You will also learn how to use hypnotic language techniques for even better results. Modelled on the work of George W. Burns, the course looks at a three stage process: Problems Addressed; Resources Developed; Outcomes Offered and because of my long experience as a teacher will be constructed so students will get the most from the course.
In this course you will learn;
- Metaphors are everywhere in life
- The importance of using metaphors in a therapeutic and learning setting
- Identifying a clients/student/child preferred conscious output system
- How to construct a powerful story
- How to remember a story
- How to deliver a story (i.e. keeping them awake until the punchline)
- Embedding commands
- Analogue marking techniques
- Use of third person
- To gain confidence through practical experience
- A number of tried and tested stories and their therapeutic uses
‘Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.’ (p3. Metaphors We Live By George Lakoff and Mark Johnson 1980)
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