Reclaim Your Gifts and Reinvent Yourself with Storytelling

Everyone is born with a unique sets of gifts, drives and talents. Unfortunately we are often socialized out of engaging them, leaving the expansive world of possibility and expression and entering a binary world of right/wrong and success/failure, where it’s easy to bury or forget them...and our potential. Applied Storytelling offers a powerful avenue for insight and awareness, remembering our gifts, reconnecting to our aliveness, and feeling more empowered in our work and lives. It draws forth forgotten parts of ourselves, and weaves isolated parts into a coherent, meaningful whole.

Come join us for an engaging, highly experiential evening of story-based creative rediscovery, reconnection, and practical application while having a lot of FUN! We’ll explore and experience, in a safe space, multiple storytelling approaches (with elements of narrative, inquiry, theater, improv, embodiment, archetypes, reflection) to bring out more of ourselves; remember and apply our gifts; and reinvent what's possible for ourselves. And you'll have techniques to take home for continued personal development.

By reconnecting to and reclaiming your gifts, you can:

• have an expanded experience of who you are and what you offer
• have a more solid foundation from which to move forward
• bring more of your whole self into your choices, thereby increasing them
• find it easier to take risks and find more avenues of expression
• discover more practical options and possibilities in any situation
• experience the fun and aliveness of your unique expression

Registration: $10 at the door.

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Presenter Michelle James, CEO of The Center for Creative Emergence, is a business creativity practitioner and catalyst who has been using applied storytelling, applied improvisation, arts-based training, movement, and other creativity practices and processes as the basis for her work with thousands of people - entrepreneurs, leaders and organizations - since starting her business 17 years ago. Clients have included the Federal Executive Institute, Microsoft, Panasonic, Dominos, GEICO, the World Bank, and the Center for Nonprofit Advancement among others, along with coaching impassioned individuals from a story and creativity-centered “whole-brain” approach. She performed full-length improvised plays with Precipice Improv in the DC area for 10 years, and is a CoreSomatics Master Practitioner - both of which inform her work. She is currently writing a book, Pattern Breaks: A Facilitator’s Guide for Cultivating Creativity due out next year. Her website is http://www.creativeemergence.com .