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Welcome to the longest running Storytelling centre of its kind. Since 1994, we continue to run courses and welcome people from all cultures, backgrounds, genders, ages and experience.
What is Storytelling?
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We are all born storytellers. Storytelling is how we make sense of the world, who we are, where we are going and how we communicate this to others, personally or professionally.
Storytelling underpins everything we do: entertainment, education, healing, activism.
Our belief systems are stories, every algorithm tells a story. The myths, legends, folk and fairy tales that every culture has left behind are all "the distilled essence of human experience."
Roi Gal-Or co-founder of the International school of storytelling
Eco mythological Journey
Mount Etna ​
09 - 16 May 2026
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Amidst volcanic rock and dark, fertile soil where the sweet chestnut trees, the vines, bracken, and moss thrive, we will tap into eco-mythological springs to remember and enliven somatic animistic wisdom.
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In this journey we will:
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Delve into the myths and stories of mount Etna and its surroundings
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hikes around various craters of the Etna.​
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soma~imaginative exercises - learn practices to unlock ‘exiled capacities’ within our body and deepen our conscious connection to the Anima Mundi and nature's intelligence. Practicing sensory perception and communication with mineral and plant consciousness.​
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Tongues of Change -
Exploring how traditional and true life stories can support individuals, groups and organisations through transformational processes.
With Roi Gal-Or and Hannah Moore
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Peredur centre, UK
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Monday 8th -Friday 12th June 2026
A new 5 days intensive for practitioners who wish to develop their skills in applied storytelling - a space for enquiry, listening, reflecting, inspiration and renewal. Together we will explore how the imagination, storytelling and listening beyond words play a part in creating the world around us.
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Storytelling Beyond Words
Our Flagship Course
Peredur centre, UK
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March and September-October 2026
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Starting in March 2026, the School of Storytelling will be offering its flagship three month course in modular units up to one month at a time, over three years to make it easier for people to carve out the time to attend.
You can sign up to any unit or to take the entire programme.
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We are now open for booking.
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This part time, 12 week training in the art and craft of storytelling aims to prepare you to carry the spoken word and a lively imagination into your communities and places of work, to meet the challenges of these times.
Guided by Roi Gal-Or
Karmit Evenzur, Stella Kassimati, Olivia Olsen and others from the Storytelling Beyond Words team
Once Upon a Lifetime
A creative and inspiring storytelling journey of weaving
together traditional and personal stories
into one performance.
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Peredur centre, UK​
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Sunday 20th September- Friday 2nd October 2026 ​
This unit can be taken on its own, or combined with other modules in March 2026 to form the first block of the longer - Storytelling Beyond Words - our flagship Storytelling course to meet the challenges of these times.
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In this wonder-full 2 week course, alongside creatively working with traditional wonder tales from around the world, we will also craft our own personal stories so that what is universal and archetypal in them can be shared as gifts with our listeners. This journey will open our eyes to freshly seeing and honouring the magic and wonder present in our own life. It will inspire and give insight to finding new meaning in our daily experiences and in the old stories (including challenging ones).
If you are interested in performing stories you will be introduced to an artistic, creative and powerful way of weaving together traditional and personal stories into one performance.
The course is suitable for beginners as well as for experienced storytellers.
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The Craft of the Storyteller-
Four weekends of in-depth exploration of storytelling, voice, movement, connection, improvisation, authenticity and presence.
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The Foundation for water building, Emerson College, UK
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Weekend One: Fri 11th - Sun 13th Sept 2026 Folktales
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Weekend Two: 9th - Sun 11th October 2026 Wonder Tales
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Weekend Three: Fri 6th - Sun 8th November 2026 Mythology
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Weekend Four: Fri 11th -Sun 13th December 2026 Personal project
Times:
Fri 7.30pm to 9.30pm
Sat 9.00am to 5.00pm
Sun 9.00am to 12.30pm
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Folktales in Troubled Times
- A fresh and critical view of the wisdom of the oral tradition.
With Roi Gal-Or and Karmit EvenZur
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Peredur centre, UK
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Monday 12th - Friday 23rd October 2026
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In this two week course, we will explore our collective inheritance of oral wisdom traditions from around the globe, focusing on folktales and situating them in dialogue with our embodied histories and lived legacies.
As well as developing and honing our storytelling skills we will discuss questions such as :
What does old folktales wisdom have to teach us? What do these old stories need to shed, or be reimagined in order for them to be relevant for us now? And how they might help us compost what was once called ‘normal’ into new possibilities and imagined futures.
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This unit can be taken on its own, or combined with other modules in 2026 to form the first block of the longer - Storytelling Beyond Words - our flagship Storytelling course to meet the challenges of these times.
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'This course has shone a light on my path, which stood in darkness.
The connection, empathy, strength, and richness I felt from being a part of an incredible community is more than I could hope to receive in a lifetime…and yet I received it in 4 weekends! This course has been life-giving.'
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Nana Tomova. U.K
(Bring Your Stories to Life! 2019)
"I loved being around people from so many different backgrounds and countries.
Deep immersion into deep stories. Yeah! I feel like my brain is different!"
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Lisa Nelson, USA
Begin it Now!
Watch this space for new dates. ​
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Peredur centre, UK
This course can be taken on its own, or ​combined with other modules in March 2026 to form the first block of the longer - Storytelling Beyond Words - our flagship Storytelling course to meet the challenges of these times.
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Storytelling Beyond Words is offered in modular units up to one month at a time, over three years.
Weekend Course
This is the ideal course to lead you into something completely new, something you’ve never done before, but want to start now: Storytelling.
This course is the recommended first step into Storytelling at the School of Storytelling, Emerson College.​​​​​​
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Guided by Stella Kassimati
THE LOST ISLANDS
Imaginative Relation-Ship Shaping
This is an Online course (six sessions)
You have missed the boat but we will run it again in autumn 2026 . ​
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Foolish Story wisdom to help us navigate through these challenging times.
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Storytelling Beyond Words (SBW)
Creative lab program
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Dates to be announced. Register your interest at storytellingbeyondwords@gmail.com
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Creative lab artist residency programme
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A new three-week residency programme from our Storytelling Beyond Words course leaders Roi Gal-Or and Karmit Evenzur. It offers storytellers and activists an ideal environment, nourishment and encouragement to work on developing their creative projects.
Guided by Roi Gal-Or and Karmit Evenzur
